Does anyone do home maintenance/repairs on EVs and Hybrids?

[Foss62]

The latest fascinating fault on my Friday afternoon PHEV Skoda involves the separate cooling system for the high voltage system. The VAG breakdown man wasn’t even allowed to top the expansion tank up - it is wired shut and “can only be accessed at an approved workshop”.
This got me thinking. Will anyone, ever, work on these at home? Are Haynes currently stripping down EVs and Hybrids to produce the classic manuals?

[Foss62]

shtu said:

Foss62 said:

Will anyone, ever, work on these at home?

Of course. People already do.

I'm old enough to remember the howls of anguish as electronic ignition and fuel injection started to appear, and how it would kill-off non franchise garages and DIYers. Never happened.

It was the wired-on seal on the expansion tank - like the one on the main fuse of houses - that got me wondering. In theory they (at least the pure EVs) should be much simpler than ICE vehicles. I wonder if the ‘danger’ is being hyped a bit to try to ward off DIYers. I can’t imagine anything there that would terrify a normal domestic electrician - particularly now they are becoming more accustomed to home batteries in solar panel systems etc.