VinFast Partners with Motech to Establish Nationwide Service Center Network in the Philippines

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VinFast Philippines and Motech Automotive Service Heart have formalized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a service community for VinFast electrical autos. This collaboration is in keeping with the Vietnamese EV maker’s strategic dedication to fostering inexperienced transportation within the area — not simply to serve its non-public clients, but in addition to organize for the adoption of the deliberate inexperienced taxi community.

CleanTechnica sources at VinFast Philippines say that Motech was chosen due to its giant footprint within the nation — with 63 service retailers from Tuguegarao in north Luzon, a focus in Metro Manila, as much as Bicol on the tip of south Luzon, in main cities within the Visayas, and with a number of branches on Mindanao — making the partnership strategic to VinFast’s aim of organising 100 service facilities throughout the nation.

These facilities will present complete restore, guarantee, and upkeep providers for VinFast EVs. Our supply added that Motech’s current service workshops might be upgraded to satisfy VinFast’s requirements for services, tools, and personnel, in addition to stocking of real providers and elements. VinFast can even present personnel coaching and technical advisory assist to facilitate the speedy integration of Motech’s community, a vital step contemplating the anticipated progress in VinFast electrical automobile adoption.

Motech was based in 1977 in Angeles Metropolis, Pampanga, and now has a buyer base of over 300,000. It supplies a spread of normal automotive restore providers, together with upkeep, brake, suspension, clutch, battery, and tire providers. The collaboration can even discover additional enterprise alternatives, data sharing, and joint advertising and marketing initiatives associated to electrical automobile after-sales providers throughout Southeast Asia.

“Motech is thrilled to partner with VinFast as an authorized service provider for their electric vehicles in the Philippines. Confident in VinFast’s potential within the Southeast Asian market, Motech looks forward to this collaboration to support the growing EV market and to continue to deliver exceptional customer experience,” Johann Rommel Naguiat, President and CEO of Motech Automotive Philippines, stated in a press assertion.

“Leveraging Motech’s strong reputation, experience, and extensive service network, we aim to provide Filipino customers with peace of mind and satisfaction, aligning with VinFast’s core principles of high-quality vehicles, inclusive pricing, and outstanding after-sales policy. We are confident this partnership will simplify EV ownership and usage, empowering customers to join the global movement towards green transportation,” Pham Sanh Chau, CEO of VinFast Asia, stated.

“Further, this partnership between VinFast and Motech, a first of its kind in the Philippines, helps the Philippine market embrace the change to greener mobility, by answering the issue of not only range anxiety, but that of the issue of service anxiety as well. With Motech’s network of stores and the reputation it has built in its communities, VinFast customers can drive with confidence, that their VinFast vehicle will be well cared for, anywhere at anytime,” Motech’s Naguiat added.

VinFast’s entry into the Philippine market in 2024, marked by the introduction of its electrical automobile fashions, has been accompanied by a steady growth of each its gross sales and after-sales community. The corporate’s technique of partnering with established service suppliers goals to optimize its Philippine operations and strengthen model recognition.

VinFast’s regional imaginative and prescient, “For a Green Future,” focuses on constructing a complete electrical automobile ecosystem, together with the growth of charging infrastructure, leveraging the success achieved in Vietnam.