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Translation error? Apart from busses, not a single EV is made in Thailand yet, right?

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What happened on April 7th? Did Aion, MG and Mitsubishi just drop their pants and gave the cars away?

Nah, the fun 🤣 has just begun. More cannon fodder for our little December 8th fire 🔥 deadline. Starting August you will have some tough sales numbers to match.

The winner 🏆 in the cheating category is Mr. Dwyer. The team category is won by PibOil with a score of 5,088. In the individual category Pib takes gold ✨️ and EOW comes in on a strong second for silver

@Pib, @vinny41 Are the sales number from the Motor Show out yet? Still a lot of blanks here: https://bims45.motorshow.in.th/statistics/# Pib at 3,200 vs. EOW at 1,888 for BYD.

But....maybe she was an ex-employee at the bar 😉.

That was all BYD had, one single swallow of a quarter. Winter came early this summer for BYD.

Thanks @Pib. I find that EV are always online intriguing, but also alarming. Of course our phones also collect data, but with the cars we have hardware, software, firmware and all data access rules made in China 🇨🇳. I assume the car don't have options as to what data are shared similar to what most phone apps have? Is there any options to see what or even just how much data the car uploads? Apparently the car manufacturer can remotely disable the car. It could be a handy feature for the repo-guy, but so far no reports of it happening in Thailand.....yet.

Very nice article. If you ever come across a similar discount tracking list for ICEV, please share. So far we seen 150,000 baht off the Ciaz and 800,000 baht on the Mercedes E300, but I am sure there are more out there

SeñorLA?

Wow, nearly 400,000 baht discount on the Good cat. 25% down-payment and it is all yours, until the repo-guy knocks on ur door.

All valid points, but with a million EV cars on the road, some EV buyers are probably also being lured away from the showrooms and into the second hand EV market. This is something we haven't seen in Thailand yet, but if and when the BYD fabric start pumping out 150,000 units, we might get a thriving second hand market around 2025/26 and that could put a damper on new EV sales. "There are now over a million electric cars on our roads.....

Is it possible you add the sim number in the My AIS app to monitor the data usage, up- and downloads? The reason I ask, it that there is some debate in Europe that China is collecting and commercializing data from EVs. This could just be driver behavior, that is then sold to insurance companies, but it could also be both voice and video recordings in and around the car.

@Pib, @Gweiloman Do you then have to have a separate mobile package for the car's sim card and can you freely choose the service provider? What is the monthly data usage? Will the car work if you decide to remove the sim card and go "dark"?

Technical question to our EV owners. How and how much are these new EVs connected to the Internet? Do they have a sim card and always connected like a mobile phone or is it wifi only? If using the home wifi, is it then always connected when within range or just connecting or just when charging or just when an software update requires connectivity?

Wait, what now? Mr. Chiang Rai lives in Chiang Mai? 😕

Your wish has been granted 🎩 🪄 🔮.

You have a new lease on life, based on your new EV market share metrics. I have made a little chart, just for you. It was a close call in February and starting May the first ray of summer sun ☀️ might start to shine.

That is a mind-boggling high density of charging station, presumably all build in the last 2 years. Does the app show the total number of public charging stations, all sizes and speed included?

Of course, but only with the right driver.

The EV charging station at my building is great 👍 as a pitstop area to prep the Bimmer for the road trip. Is it a fast charger?

I am also cheering for higher April sales, as our esteemed Chiang Rai member claims we won't see 3 consecutive months of declining EV sales in his lifetime. I think we have to see all of 2024 sales before we can draw any conclusions, maybe even 2025 sales numbers. There are a lot of unknowns, price cutting, newer and smaller models, shifting political will, economic slowdown, Chinese factories opening up, or possibly delaying opening up. For now it is just a bit up and down, but nevertheless fun to follow.

There is a word for people who don't identify with the vehicle they drive, it is called: A female 🙄