PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Motors (SDM) has teamed up with TOC Automotive School to determine applications to upskill electrical automobile (EV) technicians servicing world automotive manufacturers represented by the corporate.
The automotive arm of Sime Darby Bhd stated in a press release that this was a part of its efforts to unlock alternatives for native abilities within the automotive sector. The coaching by TOC Automotive School will complement the EV service and upkeep coaching obtained from SDM’s model principals, together with BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mini and Volvo.
It will guarantee steady training and publicity to the newest in applied sciences and world-class practices for all SDM’s EV technicians.
SDM managing director of retail and distribution Jeffrey Gan stated its technicians have already acquired a robust information base and hands-on expertise from the coaching supplied by its world-class principals.
“This partnership with TOC goals to supply enhanced studying alternatives to domesticate a robust pool of extremely succesful technicians geared up with updated abilities and information, particularly given the rising demand for EVs in Malaysia.
“This will even contribute to the Authorities’s efforts to construct a reliable and expert expertise pool, in assist of the nation’s financial development and improvement,” Gan stated.
TOC government director Datuk Iqmal Shafiq stated: “By elevating the abilities of EV technicians for world automotive manufacturers, it will certainly open the door to larger alternatives for Malaysian expertise.
“Paving the way in which for the way forward for the automotive business in Malaysia, we sit up for imparting our experience to proceed nurturing the capabilities of automotive professionals in the direction of world requirements.”
The primary batch of members includes 20 technicians enrolled for a three-month program that begins in Might 2022.
Key modules embody the rules and ideas behind electrification and hybridisation, security and methods operations, in addition to sensible actions similar to diagnostics, testing and restore works.