Neta's maker went bankrupt. 25,000 Thai EVs can't get parts.
Zhejiang Hozon New Energy Automobile is the Chinese company that built every Neta — a cheap electric car (a car that runs on a battery, not petrol) that sold well in Thailand. In June 2025 a Chinese court accepted papers to put Hozon through bankruptcy and restructuring. Its Thai service centres started to close. About 25,000 Neta cars are already on the road here. Their owners now struggle to get the parts that fail most: the drivetrain (the motor-and-gear unit that moves the car) and the CDU (the box that controls charging and high-voltage power). Almost no workshop can rebuild either.
01The pain
A Neta owner brings the electric car (a car that runs on a battery, not petrol) to the dealer. It will not move. The broken part is the drivetrain (the motor-and-gear unit that turns the wheels) or the CDU (the box that manages charging and high-voltage power). Both fail often. Both came only from the factory in China. The dealer has no spare, and the car sits dead for weeks.3,4
That factory is in trouble. In June 2025 a Chinese court accepted bankruptcy-restructuring papers for Zhejiang Hozon New Energy Automobile.1,2,5 Hozon is the parent firm that built every Neta and shipped every part. Its Thai service centres began closing. Dealers fell from 60 to 40. About 25,000 Neta cars already run on Thai roads. The Thailand Consumers Council has logged 69 owner complaints since early 2024: missing parts, shut centres, cars stuck waiting.3
Then Neta drew a line. Fix the car at any outside garage, it warned, and the warranty (the free-repair promise) ends at once.4 Owners are trapped. The official centre is empty; the outside garage is banned. Independent shops cannot get the parts either, and almost none can rebuild a high-voltage battery pack or a motor unit. So owners hunt Facebook groups for "any shop that can touch a Neta." They buy salvaged parts from wrecked cars at Siang Kong, Thailand's used-parts bazaar.
Further reading
- 1 Bangkok Post — "Hozon, Chinese EV giant behind NETA, files for bankruptcy — what it means for Thailand." Reports that the Neta parent entered bankruptcy proceedings and what it means for the roughly 25,000 Neta owners and remaining dealers in Thailand: bangkokpost.com
- 2 The Nation (Thailand) — "Chinese EV maker Neta's parent company enters bankruptcy." Confirms the Jiaxing Intermediate People's Court accepted the restructuring case for Zhejiang Hozon New Energy Automobile and that the Thai dealer count fell from 60 to 40: nationthailand.com
- 3 The Nation (Thailand) — "EV users file complaint with consumer council over NETA issues." Carries the ~25,000-cars-on-the-road figure, the 69 complaints to the Thailand Consumers Council since early 2024, and the drivetrain-parts shortage and service-centre closures: nationthailand.com
- 4 Rest of World — "Chinese EV makers like Neta are facing backlash in Thailand." Documents the warranty trap (outside repair voids cover), the stranded cars sitting at dealers, and owners crowdsourcing repair shops and salvaged parts: restofworld.org
- 5 Paul Tan's Automotive News — "Neta enters bankruptcy proceedings in China — report." Corroborates the timing (proceedings reported in June 2025) and the creditor petition that triggered the court restructuring: paultan.org
02Who solves this today
We searched for a Thai or Southeast-Asian operating company that runs the shape this gap calls for: a workshop that rebuilds an orphaned-brand high-voltage battery pack and drive unit, and reverse-engineers, makes or reliably stocks the Neta CDU (charge distribution unit) and traction-motor parts as a commercial service — so a stranded Neta owner can book a real repair instead of waiting on a factory that no longer ships. We ran English- and Thai-language queries across the Pantip owner forums, Thai motoring press (Thairath, Prachachat, The Nation, Bangkok Post), EV-garage directories, and every plausible vendor's own product and service page. What we found:
- Independent Neta repair garages (for example, Kingkue EV Shop / กิ้งกือ EV Shop) — a small Thai garage that has become the place stranded Neta owners turn to, reportedly handling more than 20 Neta cars a day. It is real and useful, and it is the human face of the workaround. But its own press coverage shows it still sources parts by importing from China or buying salvage, and waits on the same scarce CDU and drivetrain stock as everyone else; it does not remanufacture high-voltage battery packs or drive units, and it does not make its own CDU. It is the symptom of the gap, not the close of it. thairath.co.th (Kingkue EV Shop profile) · prachachat.net
- CNC789 — Neta parts reseller — markets itself as a "complete NETA parts" supplier for the Neta V, S and X at wholesale prices. On reading the product page, the catalogue is body panels, lights, interior trim, fluids and filters — the cheap, available consumables. It explicitly resells curated parts and names no remanufacturing. It does not stock the load-bearing failures: the high-voltage battery pack, the traction motor, or the CDU. cnc789.com/ev/neta-parts
- Neta Auto (Thailand) — official aftersale — the first party, and the one whose collapse is the pain. It opened a spare-parts distribution centre in April 2025 and promises an eight-year high-voltage-battery warranty, but the operational service-and-parts network is exactly what is shrinking as the parent restructures. It is not a third-party solver; it is the channel owners can no longer rely on. neta.co.th/th/aftersale
None of these is a company a stranded Neta owner can call this week to have a failed drivetrain or CDU rebuilt to order. This is an open opportunity for founders. The demand is concrete: about 25,000 cars already on the road, a CDU that owners report ordering from China for around 20,000 baht (~US$560) when one can be found at all, a drivetrain and a high-voltage battery pack that no independent shop can yet remanufacture, and a brutal Thai EV price war that is set to orphan the next weak brand the same way. What is missing is the operator: a workshop with a high-voltage battery-rebuild bench, the ability to repair or copy the failure-prone CDU, a salvaged-and-tested parts inventory, and a warranty an owner can trust more than a closed dealer. If you build or know a company that actually runs this shape in Thailand or the region, email contact@aikraft.com and we will list them.
No companies listed yet — get on this page. This page is in no-solver-yet mode: we could not find a Thai or regional company whose product page concretely sells the full orphaned-Neta remanufacturing workflow — rebuild the high-voltage battery pack, repair or copy the CDU, remanufacture the drive unit, stock and test salvaged parts — as one commercial service. If you build or know a company that does, write to us and we will list it within 7 business days. If you are already named on this page above (Kingkue EV Shop, CNC789, Neta Auto Thailand) and want a correction or removal, that runs through the same channel; removal is processed within 24 hours. Email contact@aikraft.com.
Operators discussing this
These are real Neta owners in Thailand talking about this pain in their own words, on the public Pantip forum boards. They are the reason this page exists.
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«บางรายรถเสียแต่ไม่ได้รับการซ่อมแซมเนื่องจากไม่มีอะไหล่ ศูนย์ทยอยปิดและไม่รับเคลม ... ปัญหาเรื่องการเคลมอะไหล่ระบบขับเคลื่อน ... ต้องจอดรอซ่อมอยู่ที่ศูนย์บริการ»
"Some owners' cars break down but get no repair because there are no parts; service centres are closing one by one and refuse claims ... the worst is the drivetrain-parts claims ... cars sit parked waiting for repair at the centre."
"Neta EV customers petition the Consumers Council: no parts, closed centres, slow plates" · Pantip — part of a cluster of 9+ Pantip threads on the same orphaned-parts / closed-centre pain spanning 2024–2026; this petition thread is dated 9 June 2025.
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«ลูกค้าที่ประสบปัญหาจากศูนย์ฯ แต่อยากรักษาประกันไว้ ก็จะถูกบังคับให้ต้องรอการแก้ไขจาก NETA เท่านั้น แม้ว่าการรอนั้นจะยาวนานและไม่แน่นอน ... ซ่อมอู่นอก รถซ่อมได้เร็วขึ้น แต่ก็ต้องแลกกับการที่รถจะ 'หมดประกัน' ทันที»
"An owner hit by the centre's problems but who wants to keep the warranty is forced to wait for NETA alone, however long and uncertain that wait is ... fix at an outside garage and the car is repaired faster, but in exchange the car is 'out of warranty' instantly."
"NETA statement: buy below the set price or repair outside, and the warranty ends instantly" · Pantip — member analysis of Neta's outside-repair-voids-warranty notice; same niche cluster as the petition thread.
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«อยากสอบถามว่าตอนนี้ neta กลับมารึยังหรือยังทรงๆอยู่ ... แล้วคนที่เครมรออะไหล่ได้ครบหรือยัง สรุปประกันรถใช้ได้ไหมครับ»
"I want to ask whether Neta has recovered yet or is still barely hanging on ... and have the people waiting on parts claims finally got everything? In short, is the car warranty even usable?"
"How is Neta doing now, in both China and Thailand?" · Pantip — a fresh 2026 status-check thread proving the parts-and-warranty pain is still live, not historical.
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