The Truth on EV Maintenance from EV Service Leaders

Everyone says EVs go through tires faster. The service director who's been working on Nissan Leafs since 2018 says that's not what he's seeing — and his explanation is more interesting than the myth.In this episode of EV Insider, host Scott Case sits down with Chris Skinner, Fixed Operations Director at Granbury Nissan in Texas. With 18 years in the industry — from service porter to technician to director — Skinner has watched multiple generations of Leaf and Ariya come through his bays, and he has a blunt take on what EV ownership actually requires.The conversation covers why EV owners who never visit a service department end up paying for it somewhere else, the three maintenance items that matter most on a Leaf, and why brake fluid is the one most drivers misunderstand. Skinner also opens up the dealer side: what EV certification really costs, why a single technician's resignation can knock a store offline, and why his team hired a product specialist whose only job is teaching customers their own car.Subscribe to EV Insider for more conversations with the leaders shaping the EV market: https://www.recurrentauto.com/about/ev-insider