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ZF's new Tesla oil change kit proves electric vehicles still need fluid service. Tyreese lays out the play: learn one spec, stop saying no, and add one question to your booking form today.
Tyreese Burton
Oil Change Expert
Originally aired 2026-11-03 on the Mobile Oil Change Industry podcast.
ZF's new Tesla oil change kit proves electric vehicles still need fluid service. Tyreese lays out the play: learn one spec, stop saying no, and add one question to your booking form today.
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Good morning. Welcome in. Coffee's hot, trucks are warming up, and we're getting after it together. Let's talk about something that could change who you say yes to this week.
Here's the thing. Yesterday, Monday, November second, ZF Aftermarket — that's one of the biggest parts suppliers in the business — announced a brand-new oil change kit for Tesla applications, plus a whole family of repair kits for electric drivetrains. They're showing it all off at AAPEX in Las Vegas, which opens today. And the reason this matters to us is simple: the people who build the parts just told the whole industry, out loud, that electric vehicles still need fluid service.
Now look, I know what a lot of operators say when a Tesla or a hybrid pulls into the conversation. "We don't do those." I get it. It's unfamiliar, the specs are different, and nobody wants to be the guy who puts the wrong fluid in a thirty-thousand-dollar drivetrain. But here's what ZF just put in writing: hybrids and plug-in hybrids need fluids with electrical insulation properties that play nice with the electric motor parts inside them. And full battery electrics? They've still got reduction gearboxes in their drive units, and those gearboxes need fluid changes. The oil change isn't dying. It's changing shape. ZF is even launching two hundred and fifty remanufactured transmission units and a hundred transmission components in North America, and they say their oil solutions now cover sev...
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Tyreese Burton is the owner-operator of MOMS Mobile Oil Change in the Philadelphia area and host of the Mobile Oil Change Industry daily podcast. He covers the business of mobile automotive service — pricing, operations, fleet contracts, and industry shifts — from the driver's seat.
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