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Here is a business idea 💡 to all you EVangelists with V2L: Road side assistance 😀 🛻. 83Rse1aLF0UzRkNB.mp4

You are welcome 😊. 4-zmkgDht4mv7Yfb.mp4

True, but the guy that fuel ⛽️ up with dino juice is indirectly paying me a 1,000 baht, which I happily 😊 spend on fuel. Combined we are doing 720 km, while you and the other solar panel users are creating massive amounts of nuclear waste 🗑 and radiation by supporting the sun 😔 😟. I think we should have an interplanetary radiation tax for EV users.

Used to be, right? When did they split up?

Still also a part of The Nation?

March was particularly brutal for Tesla in Europe 🇪🇺. Minus 34.5% y-o-y sales. Toyota +8.6% 🤭.

When rubber meets the mud, BYD fly by like a lighting fireball. 8j9yxJd2yb-MI5tw.mp4

That is mostly true, except the 7-11's at the islands.

It is mud season in Ukraine at the moment. In a month or so the ground will dry up and Russia will begin their summer offensive, just in time for F-16 to be operational. The meat 🍖 grinder will continue, but at the end Ukraine will, maybe not win, but survive.

In US news: https://www.channeltoday.us/british-tourist-found-dead-in-a-drain-after-going-missing-on-pub-crawl-world-news.cttv/?amp=1

It it only for Bangkok, not sure how you do it in Chiang Mai. https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/onlineservice-and-publicguide

Absolutely brilliant 👏, you solved the enigma. Thanks 😊. The short slider (full flush) is near impossible to adjust when installed as it is wedged behind the overflow tube. It was in the top position when installed, which oddly enough is the lower setting for the full flush, but the flush volume is good and I don't have any leaks, so I will leave it that way.

We need to build a sustainable future for the next generation, by pumping $100 oil 😉 . We are not there yet, neither with the sustainable future, $100 oil nor a (fully) change in my attitude 😀, but I am in good company and enjoying the holiday 🌴 🏝.

How about this monster 👻?

The rolling stock from China seem to work well in Thailand or are there also issues with them, just to a lesser degree than in Africa? A Crumbling Metro Reveals Failed Promise of China’s Billions in Africa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/addis-ababa-ethiopia-metro-s-decline-shows-china-s-step-back-from-africa

Range anxiety is a thing of the past and was real for the first EVs with unreliable range. Top Gear did a few segments where the trio was driving along with 200 km range and then 30 km later, range had dropped to 20 km. With few to no charging stations around, they have to run a power cable out a hotel window to charge over night. There is no range anxiety or any other kind of anxiety with the cars you guys are driving now and the current charging station infrastructure.

Not as much as it used to be 😊.

Back to the drawing board. #2.5, the main level lever, definitely regulate the half flush. Since the fill level is set by a separate float unit, it is still a mystery what the small max/min indicator is suppose to do. It could be that it regulate the flush valve opening and thus sets the flush flow rate. I will time a couple of flush in different settings.

I think you are right. It probably acts as a stopper for the half flush, while the full flush empties the everything in the cistern. Sadly, the manual gloss over this detail.

Anyone know what the small min/max adjuster does? The main adjuster #2.5 is of course to adjust the water level and thereby the the total flush volume, but it also has a smaller #2.6 level adjuster, what is that doing?

Let me try to explain implicit subsidy, so even you understands it. A farmer produce a mango 🥭 for $1 + $1 in distribution and supermarket profit and we have a $2 mango 🥭. Evey is happy 😊, but then the government implement a $8 mango 🥭 tax. $10 mangoes don't sell well and in an election year the government set up a mango fund and subsidize each mango with $4. $6 mangoes sell well and soon the mango fund is $10 billion in debt. The government still got $20 in tax or $10 billion net mango tax, since they are liable for the mango fund. That is implicit subsidy. Explicit subsidy is when the government pay 15,000 baht for rice it later sell for 5,000 baht. Oil is a huge cash cow for all governments, including the Thai government taxing 30 baht diesel ⛽️.

The EVangelists are committed to the cause. They will install a couple of cheap Chinese solar panels, demand the neighbor trim his mango tree so there is no afternoon shade on the panels, spin the meter (illegally) backwards, and monitor everything on an app 24/7, so they only use 299 units and maximize every public baht they can squeeze out of the system. Long live the (green) revolution!!!

You do know what Implicit subsidy is, right? Governments around the world, including Thailand 🇹🇭 are making billions on dino juice tax, including diesel, even at the current 30 baht. Meanwhile, closer to the subject of EVs: Starting from January to April 2023, the Thai government earmarked THB 75 billion for electricity subsidies to soften the impact of energy prices. Discounts for electricity bills will be allocated to households that consume a maximum of 300 units of electricity per month and reside in the areas covered by the services provided under the concessions contract of the Royal Thai. The subsidies are distributed by the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) and the Metropolitan Electricity Administration (MEA).

Still there.

Good read. Final sales may land at only half of the 53,000 cars booked at the Bangkok International Motor Show. The price war is not going to end very soon," said Naruedom Mujjalinkool at Krungsri Securities. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Thai-car-production-faces-tough-year-despite-rising-EV-bookings