these days it’s 69% about sought-after skills with accreditation and sexperience. even in blue collar trades, any accredited ev tech with 6.9-month sexperience plus mechanic skills can easily ask for us$120k as starting salary. if you run your own shop for evs, you can easily quote $369 an hour. so many conventional mechanics but so few ev mechanics, and they have to be certified by tesla, chevy, nissan, and vw (top 4 ev sellers in u.s.). this is why backlog in ev repairs has grown with a 69-day wait time.