Bandersnatch

Bit too HiSo for my garden. The vehicle I purchased for moving stuff around my garden can't even manage a single horse power

I chose to not fit any black privacy film. I felt that installing black film on top of the silver coated glass roof would actually make it hotter. Here is a video I did when I got the car.

Ok you convinced me. No more dithering, just order the Orange Pi 3 LTS with software pre-installed. https://solar-assistant.io/shop

Solar Assistant is still on my to-do-list while I dither about which Raspberry-Pi and screen combo to go for. The Pi will be located in my mechanical room with my inverters, but it would be great to have a screen showing the state of all 4 inverters and batteries, without having to cycle through 4 inverters to get to the information in Watts.

I have the 4 WD 3.8 seconds 0-100kph, now looking for a second car for the wife to do the school run and cart the family around. Also trips to the garden center and we have 3 labradors and a husky all a bit tricky in the seal

Discussions in the Bander Household has been along these lines recently. The Sealion is the most attractive, but it's sloping roof line means that it's actually a smaller boot than our current MG HS PHEV. At BYD today to get our SIM card updated to get GBox for apps. We asked about the Sealion delivery and were told 2-3 months! Atto 3 looks good, but I was put off by the small 60 kWh battery and slow 80 kW DC charging compared to the 82.5 kWh/150 kW on the Seal. Also there is an updated model coming: Atto 3 new model Q2 2025 https://carnewschina.com/2025/01/15/2025-byd-atto-3-update-revealed-in-china-by-regulator/ So we put down ฿10,000 deposit on the 7 seat M6 Extended range in Harbour Grey they had in stock: 71.8 kWh LFP BYD Blade Battery Charging 115kW Cost ฿899,000, the price has recently been reduced from ฿929,000 Finance: 30% down ฿269,970 with ฿629,930 to finance @ 1.98% ฿14,173/month 48 months

Agreed, that is why BYD is currently top of my list.

Test drove the X-Power and loved it, but my wife felt it was too much smaller than the HS

Thanks. We love the V2L on the Seal and want to stick with LFP. It would be great having to BYDs as backup power for the house. Other than BYD we will have to track down dealerships in Isaan.

Thanks

Waiting to hear what BYD will offer, before I decide whether I consider selling it privately.

Funny I only hear these stories from people who don't actually own Chinese EVs! This discussion "EVs in Thailand" has been going for nearly 3 years and has over 9,000 replies. As OP I've not seen one post by a Chinese EV owner saying that they had a faulty battery that meant that their EV was no longer running. I have 2 Chinese EVs and never had a problem. My house is powered by solar and Chinese Batteries, the same battery chemistry as in my latest EV. They have been so reliable, that I gave my meter back to PEA over a year ago. If I were you I wouldn't believe these "stories" as they sound like BS to me.

Starting to slowly look for an EV as my “second car” or “Wife’s car” Currently my 1st car is a BYD Seal AWD Performance. It’s a great grand tourer - got back yesterday from a 900+km trip to BKK where it cut through traffic like a hot samurai sword through butter and left us feeling more relaxed and less stressed than our recent flights to the capital. What the seal is not, is a car for trips to the garden center or for carting 3 labradors to the vets. It’s also not a great baby car. My current “second car” is my 4 year old MG HS PHEV. There is actually nothing wrong with it except it only has a 17kWh battery and only charges at 3.5kW. A sensible person would keep it as a perfectly sensible second car but perhaps I’m not that sensible! Stopped at MG to look at their stock, we like the MG 4 but too small for our needs. At BYD we have already tested the M6, available in 6 or 7 seats not a bad car but not great looking. They had an ATTO 3 (now made in Thailand) in black with a black interior and it looked very smart. Here it is next to my MG HS PHEV The Sealion 6 is a plug-in hybrid so didn't make the cut, so we test drove the fully electric Sealion 7 and it was very nice indeed if a bit pricey for a second car, but maybe the RWD Premium is more sensible as a baby chariot than the AWD Performance. What would be your choice?

@Pib @Andrew Dwyer Yes you are probably right... lost in translation

I was a BYD today and asked about the SIM swap and they said that my SIM would be "updated, not replaced" they are doing it today, I will report back any findings