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  1. ExpatOilWorker
    Everyone that bought an EV? Is there a prize 🏆 for the correct answer?
  2. ExpatOilWorker
    Actually no dinosaurs have ever been hurt in the production of fossil fuel. It was all down to some lazy fungi and bacteria that needed 30 million years to get an appetite for trees 🌳.
  3. ExpatOilWorker
    Do as the rich Thais, open a FCD account. https://thethaiger.com/news/business/foreign-currency-deposits-surge-in-thailand-due-to-global-rate-hikes
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    Actually I did invent that myself or maybe I was just confused by our Chiang Rai friend's lofty EV sales forecasts and thought the local market would easily gobble up the 150,000 cars BYD plans to pump out. Export it is then and the Thai plant is just BYD's cunning plan to enter the European market, just in time for Ursula to slap tariffs on Chinese made cars.
  5. ExpatOilWorker
    I feel so much better now, but wait what? Wasn't it written in the Thai subsidy program that for every imported vehicle manufacturers have to produce and sell (not export) 1 car in 2024, if not 1.5 cars in 2025?
  6. ExpatOilWorker
    I am a bit worried 😟 that BYD has saturated the Thai EV market even before their local factory has opened. They will have to export their way out of that hole. We have to go back to around 2003 to find sub 50,000 car sales numbers for Thailand. Apart, of course for a few months during Covid.
  7. ExpatOilWorker
    That is an unusual low car sales number for Thailand and with 25-30,000 cars repossessed every month, 50-60% of these cars will soon enter the second hand market.
  8. ExpatOilWorker
    Pib just shared the numbers '24: February 2023: 5,498 February 2024: 3,529 That is a 35.8% y-o-y drop. Hope you will stay around for another two months.
  9. ExpatOilWorker
    Remember the below: "If you mean the month compared to it's equivalent month in the previous year? I don't think we will ever see this happen 3 times in a row in our lifetime (in Thailand)." 2024 will be a tough year.
  10. ExpatOilWorker
    A few of us plan to stay around for a bit longer, so with the first sales y-o-y sales drop in February 2024, the future is not looking bright for JB. Vinny41 on the other hand nailed it and was just off by 1 month.
  11. ExpatOilWorker
    That is still 50 miles at 250 mph, while the BYD would burn through the 80 kWh battery in less than 5 minutes making it about 15 miles down the road at a way slower speed.
  12. ExpatOilWorker
    What is the range at 192 mph? 8 miles?
  13. ExpatOilWorker
    Why is "brilliant mind" deleted? 😕 🫤
  14. ExpatOilWorker
    Why not? 1694512963-thailand-20solar-20information.avif
  15. ExpatOilWorker
    2 hours and 16 minutes full solar power per day on average. Why so low? February wasn't particularly rainy, but maybe cloudy? Pollution? The position of ur panels? The national average is 4.5 hours.
  16. ExpatOilWorker
    To add to the confusion and lethality of Thai roads, some frontage roads have two-way traffic, as show here on Rama 2.
  17. ExpatOilWorker
    Where do you see 2.5%??? https://www.bot.or.th/en/statistics/interest-rate.html
  18. ExpatOilWorker
    How come you use PT so often? Any benefits or member card? I exclusively use PTT and get point on the blue card. With your consumption you get a lot of free coffee ☕️ at Amazon. On behalf of the oil 🛢 industry we thanks you for your business 😊 😃.
  19. ExpatOilWorker
    Have you ever owned a Fortuner or are you just making fact up as we go along? 13.6 km/l is pretty Impressive. Driving at an indicated 120 - 130 km/h and not using cruise control we achieved 7.3l/100km measured at the pumps on the down trip....trip computer also indicated the same. https://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/showthread.php/328637-Fortuner-with-very-impressive-fuel-consumption
  20. ExpatOilWorker
    The big difference is that the optimum speed is way higher for an ICE.
  21. ExpatOilWorker
    Very good and honest answer. Speed really is a range killer for EVs.
  22. ExpatOilWorker
    The full report, just for you. matecconf_bultrans2017_06002.pdf
  23. ExpatOilWorker
    Pib, What kind of range do you think your Atto 3 will have if you hit the highway to Hua Hin an early morning and kept the speed at a constant 120 km/h? Looks like the comfort zone for EVs are urban city speed of 20-60 km/h. The Fortuner will of course be right at home at 120 km/h.
  24. ExpatOilWorker
    There is actually a video of this battle on X. The lone Ukrainian soldier got help from a few drone, but he he did most of the fighting himself and walked away as a true hero.
  25. ExpatOilWorker
    China 🇨🇳 sure is taking auto export to the next level. Roll-on/roll-off ships are old school.

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