ExpatOilWorker

I have not yet been invited to the cherry midsummer harvest festival. I hear it is located 700 km from civilization, which is easy within range of the Bimmers 750 kWh power pack. The passenger car segment is irrelevant, the ginger nutter was referring to all of Toyota's sales in Thailand 🇹🇭.

We all fully understand your life long struggle with percentages calculations, but by default market share is expressed in % and not absolute numbers. Advanced stuff, I know. It part of the year 2 curriculum at the 🖍 class.

Might be unrelated, but last time we had a big cooling in 2011 Thailand had the big flood. Northern Thailand is already having a very wet rainy season.

The police primary role here is not to serve and protect. When in trouble, they are the last one to contact.

https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/automotive-sales-in-thailand-by-month

Please, come and sit next to me 😊 😃.

Good to see that you have joined in on this month's cherry 🍒 harvest. Toyota has had a 30% market share in Thailand for many years, but 2024 is one of their strongest years with 33-34% market share. Yes, absolute numbers are down, but that is for the entire auto market in Thailand. Toyota is doing better very well in a shrinking market. The ginger 🫚 Aussie is pumping fake news again and his lemming followers happily copy/paste every bit of his propaganda 😀.

+ 26. Honda 27. Toyota 28. Ora 29. ChangAn 30. Wuling 31. Foton 32. Volt 33. DFSK 34. NEX 35. Mine Mobility 36. KIA 37. Fomm One 38. Pocco 39. JAC 40. Skywell 41. BOMA 42. Nextem 43. Rolls-Royce 44. Sokon 45. Takano 46. Kinzan 47. Fengchi 48. KYC 49. Aiways 50. Homidda 51. Jiayuan Let the culling begin.... Geely is not here yet, but will be from October.

Roasting Rostov oil depot. ssstwitter.com_1724328622278.mp4

Aug. 22 -- More than half of China's car dealerships were operating at a loss in the first half of the year, mainly because of struggles brought about by the price war in the Chinese automotive industry. Some 50.8 percent of car dealers in China reported losses in the six months ended June 30, up 7.3 percent from a year earlier, according to data released yesterday by the China Automobile Dealers Association. Only 35.4 percent of them were profitable. https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/over-half-of-chinas-car-dealers-were-in-the-red-in-first-half-amid-impacts-of-price-war

Lie - like? Pi - pie 🥧?

Changan still have to work out a few kinks with their NMC batteries 🔋. ssstwitter.com_1724298380883.mp4

That is a big NMC battery, right?

Thanks @Pib. As is now a familiar pattern within the EV industry, the Tesla sales guy served me some porky pies 🥧 during the recent test drive, as he said the batteries was made by Tesla. From memory I also recall Elmo was saying the batteries 🔋 were flying off the assembly line like bullets, when Tesla was building the first mega factor in the US. In the Tesla guys defense, Tesla might not make the little round battery cell, but they do manufacture the battery pack, so maybe a language thing.

The EV propaganda machine is getting increasingly desperate. In the above from the cherry 🍒 farmer we have two different vehicle definitions, happily mixed together as misinformation; EV's and electric cars. In Thailand 🇹🇭 we define an EV as an 100% battery vehicle, so BEV = EV. An electric car in the above charts are BEV + PHEV, hence fake and misleading information. This is the true numbers for 2023: Fully electric or battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 9.5 million out of the 13.6 million electric cars sold around the world in 2023, with PHEVs accounting for the rest.

Lamb chop with mustard crust.

Tesla makes their own batteries, right? How come they are not in ur list?

All thanks to frac'ing. The Permian basin is producing nearly 6 million bbls/day alone.

Electric busses is actually a good idea, especially since the alternative is this.... An9P1C3yn_SMSbfj7h5shbWKrj-8Xka0KIkGo0iDMv6oo4-NT7VSRw88F2mqfAZOxVFcipWL_5axBpwriPXcL8E.mp4

Thanks Gman. The Lisbon fires 🔥 is more relevant to Thailand than most people realize. The Korean underground parking and Lisbon Airport fire is already being closely monitored by fire authorities in Thailand 🇹🇭. As EVs become more prevalent, it is just a matter of time before we also have a possible fatal multistorey parking fire in Thailand. There are 1,000s of condos, offices and shopping centers with hundreds of cars parked. The deads will quickly be forgotten, but who will pay for the hundreds of burned 🔥 out cars? The insurance? The car owner? The EV manufacturer? The charging station?

Ups.... 🔥 A major fire broke out on Thursday evening in a long-term car park in the industrial area of Prior Velho, near Lisbon International Airport. Initial reports suggest that a parked electric car may have caused the fire. No injuries have been reported so far. The fire, which was discovered at around 18:00 p.m. local time, required the deployment of around 140 firefighters and 48 vehicles, who tried to bring the fire under control until late in the evening. Their main focus is to prevent the fire from spreading to the adjacent industrial area. Despite the smoke, air traffic at Lisbon Airport has so far remained unaffected. https://aviation.direct/en/major-fire-in-parking-garage-near-Lisbon-airport ssstwitter.com_1724071982874.mp4

Please show your numbers, including what EV Mr. Y-tail should have bought to replace the Fortuner 8 years ago?

Since I was playing around with the Cybertruck at CTW, Tesla has been calling, practically begging me to take a test drive and Model 3 was what they had available at Paragon. Please share your single pedal wisdom since turning it off is not an option on Teslas. It was easy to get the one foot motor memory, but it does make you slightly dizzy and you mentally don't expect this dragging break feeling.

We have a really friendly, good looking and intelligent Lazada delivery guy in the building we live in 😉 😜.

The future belongs to the young, so I took the gang for a test drive 🚗 in a Tesla 3. Admittedly, the technology is impressive. I can see how the voice controlled information system can become a source of entertainment and chaos in the cabin for the kids. The long charging stops might be a welcoming break for daddy 👨 the driver. The single pedal drive control feels like you are driving in deep sand and will take some time to get use to. The indicator control on the steering wheel is just dumb and impossible to use while turning. All in all a nice car. The little one signed the test drive off with a bucket 🪣 of vomit 🤢, except we didn't have a bucket, but the Tesla guy played it cool.