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EVs are EVERYWHERE in the greater Bangkok area...seeing more and more on the roads everyday as I drive and live in Bangkok....especially BYD Atto, Dolphin, and Seal. Also, plenty of ORA Good Cats and now seeing Changan Deepal's quite often. So many EV models now.

Regarding the ongoing BYD Dolphin promotion running thru 30 June, I got a LINE message today from BYD saying what Dolphin colors are still available under the promotion....see below.

Expect the article's author worked for TAT before. 😉

OTA Ver 1.8 installed in my BYD Atto today. I got the notice on the display this morning while driving...a few hours later I installed it. Installation took around 40 minutes although at the beginning of the install it said it would take 62 minutes. After the update and some googling on what OTA Ver 1.8 added was some improved A/C controls, a display icon to open/close the hatchback, updated Navigation, Voice Commands, Browser, Karaoke, & Car Manual, and Vehicle Position is now available on the BYD mobile app. By Vehicle Position I mean when I turn that function on in the app I can see where my Atto is in the world in via map/satellite view...or like I said, I can turn off that function. While playing with the BYD mobile App I noticeed when the doors were locked the app showed the doors as closed but not locked. Didn't have this glitch until I installed OTA Ver 1.8. So, for some reason the car and mobile app were misunderstanding each other as to whether the doors were locked or not. Cleared the app's cache, started and turned off the car a few times, locked and closed the doors with the key FOB (i.e., electronic key), manually opened, closed, and locked all doors but the app would still showed the doors as being unlocked when in fact they were locked. Then I did one more thing that cleared this glitch...and that was to push the lock and unlock buttons on the driver door arm rest to lock and unlock the car doors...this magically cleared the issue with the mobile app....or should I say communications between the car and the app. I've found when experiencing any glitch after some update with the car infotainment system or app that exercising the controls/icons that control a certain function (i.e., from on to off, deactivate to activate, etc.) has cleared the glitch. From some googling it appears OTA Ver 1.8 started arriving Thailand Atto's a few weeks ago...and today the BYD servers got around to my Atto.

The top six "D segment" cars....3 are EV and 3 are ICEV. https://autolifethailand.tv/sales-report-d-segment-may-2024/ Sales Report D-Segment sales for May 2024: Toyota Camry is the champion. The new model will be available at the end of 2024. June 25, 2024 Updated: June 25, 2024 ByMoo Teerapat A Sales Report D-Segment car sales: May 2024 D-Segment car sales in May 2024 total 998 units. No. 1 Toyota Camry : 352 cars Market share 35.3% No. 2 BYD Seal* : 236 units Market share 23.6% 3rd place Honda Accord : 224 cars Market share 122.4% No. 4 GWM ORA 07* : 106 cars Market share 10.6% No. 5 Deepal L07* : 78 cars Market share 7.8% No. 6 Mazda 6 : 2 cars Market share 0.2% D-Segment car sales in January - May 2024 total 7,061 units. No. 1 BYD Seal* : 4,021 units Market share 56.9% 2nd place: Honda Accord : 1,346 units Market share 19.1% 3rd place: Toyota Camry : 938 cars Market share 13.3% 4th place GWM ORA 07* : 487 units Market share 6.9% No. 5 Deepal L07* : 269 cars Market share 3.8% No. 6 Mazda 6 : 2 cars Market share 0.02% * BYD Seal / GWM ORA 07 / Deepal L07 are 100% electric vehicles. All information compiled by www.autolifethailand.tv

Basically an unpaid traffic fine will result in non-issue of the 1 year tax sticker. A temporary 30 day sticker can be issued if the person wishes to contest the ticket. See below for more info. https://www.thephuketnews.com/unpaid-traffic-fine-means-no-road-tax-renewal-confirms-plto -87761.php https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40026076

2024 is a sluggish year for vehicle sales, ICEV and EV. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/thai-car-output-drops-162-year-may-local-sales-down-federation-says-4434361 25 Jun 2024 12:07PM(Updated: 25 Jun 2024 12:13PM) Thai car output drops 16.2% on-year in May, local sales down, federation says BANGKOK: Car production in Thailand fell 16.19 per cent in May from a year earlier to 126,161 units, mainly due to lower production of pickup trucks, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Tuesday (Jun 25). The figure compared with April's 11.02 per cent year-on-year drop. In the January-May period, car production declined 16.88 per cent from a year earlier to 644,951 units, it said. The federation has said car production has been down mainly because of lower pickup truck output, reflecting weaker demand as banks have tightened auto lending due to high household debt. Domestic car sales declined 23.38 per cent in May from a year earlier, after a drop of 21.49 per cent year-on-year in April, the federation said. Thailand is Southeast Asia's biggest autos production centre and an export base for some of the world's top carmakers, including Toyota and Honda, with pickup trucks among the key vehicles manufactured. ***********************

2024 is a sluggish year for vehicle sales, ICEV and EV. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/thai-car-output-drops-162-year-may-local-sales-down-federation-says-4434361 25 Jun 2024 12:07PM(Updated: 25 Jun 2024 12:13PM) Thai car output drops 16.2% on-year in May, local sales down, federation says BANGKOK: Car production in Thailand fell 16.19 per cent in May from a year earlier to 126,161 units, mainly due to lower production of pickup trucks, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Tuesday (Jun 25). The figure compared with April's 11.02 per cent year-on-year drop. In the January-May period, car production declined 16.88 per cent from a year earlier to 644,951 units, it said. The federation has said car production has been down mainly because of lower pickup truck output, reflecting weaker demand as banks have tightened auto lending due to high household debt. Domestic car sales declined 23.38 per cent in May from a year earlier, after a drop of 21.49 per cent year-on-year in April, the federation said. Thailand is Southeast Asia's biggest autos production centre and an export base for some of the world's top carmakers, including Toyota and Honda, with pickup trucks among the key vehicles manufactured. ***********************

Great little book. But I expect it's banned reading material for EV Myth Parrots (a.k.a., EV Haters). Below are the opening and closing paragraphs from the book which sums up the situation well I think.

OK...thanks. What you were getting is just a catch error message if using entering the tm47.immigration.go.th web site when a page does not even exist on that website. Like the several webpages below I just made up....enter anything after the .th/ part and you end up with a System Maintenance message which really should be a message that no such webpage exists. Just poor programming on immigration's part. https://tm47.immigration.go.th/12345 https://tm47.immigration.go.th/helloThailand https://tm47.immigration.go.th/abcdefg

I've never heard of many of these companies....I googled two of the bankrupt ones (Proterra and Arcimoto)....turns out they were American companies who tried making electric buses and/or electric utility vehicles....both sold a minimum number of these special purposes vehicles....not exactly a mass market electric car builder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterra_(bus_manufacturer)#:~:text=Proterra Inc.,Proterra Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcimoto

Let's add some ICEV companies to above. Below is a response from a Markus Stolmar to Vincent Galan.

Where did you get that TM95 weblink from? Maybe just made it up? I can replace the the tm95 portion of the weblink with most anything like tm0, tm999, etc., and still get above system maintenance message vs a no such weblink type message.

Gosh, I know "what looks good" varies from individual to individual like what one person finds attractive another person finds ugly, but for me the Cybertruck looks like some futuristic military vehicle in a B-grade Sci-Fi movie. Just doesn't turn me on at all...but hey, that's just me.