Bandersnatch

Ok look forward to your next update

@MrChart did I miss the October figures? Just watched a video quoting EV sales for 2023 estimated to be 8.7% Thought I saw we had already reached over 10% of total vehicle sales.

Yes light pressure all the way around and click. Getting underneath it getting it off is the problem. I got a YouTube comment. - didn’t look that hard, he didn’t see the struggle off camera to get it started

Might not be in HD yet

This exchange on my Hot Seal video was interesting

Wouldn’t the aircon have also have cooled the windscreen and that was considerably hotter. This is my MG HS PHEV with Hi Kool ceramic film: BYD Seal Roof not coated: BYD Seal windscreen uncoated MG HS PHEV with Hi Kool ceramic film and foil coated foam: Conclusion: BYD Seal’s uncoated windscreen is the same temp as the film coated MG MG with with foil coated foam and film is the same temp as the BYD Seal’s glass roof

As you said yourself "I don't have an EV" meaning you don't think the way EV owners think. You don't understand how EVs work. "if everyone waited until later to charge wont those be higher demand hours and wont the electric companies charge accordingly" EVs represent a tiny proportion of countries energy usage, but they want EV owners to charge at night so power like Wind doesn't need to switched off and they don't need to switch on Gas Peaker early evening.

I charge my EVs from the solar on my house. One of my EVs has bi-directional charging so it’s basically a battery on wheels. I haven’t drawn any power from PEA since September 2022. Go on with your “criticism and anti EV stance based on Knowledge , Science and engineering”

You are going to have to explain how I could have done a more proper job of listing "Questions covered in the article" than "simply copied and pasted" maybe I could have changed a few questions to ones that weren't covered by the article?

I was telling you because you posted "IMO most people would want to plug in and start charging as soon as they get home from work which would place an additional load to peak electric consumption time" I was explaining why your comment was wrong - don't get upset about it

May not be HD yet

You make a valid point - I give everyone a chance or two to see if they are capable of engaging in a discussion, but once I recognize their only aim is to throw stones they get added to my ignore list so that I don't waste their time or mine.

BYD Seal Cool Ride or Too Hot to handle?

Not if it was much cheaper to wait a few hours - Just program the car once to charge the same time every day when electricity is cheaper

I don't but it's a comment that is regularly heard in EV discussions (insert country name of your choice)

I hear that a lot, but I haven't seen EV owners swarming petrol head discussions - maybe you have and can post links. I have certainly seen many many anti EV comments on EV discussions that lack basic science understanding. Maybe if you've had to explain Grid Balancing and load shifting to someone who doesn't understand TOU Tariffs for the 5th time that week you can come across as patronizing. In which case apologies.

That's why I didn't post it here but started a new discussion 🙄

Did you read @TimeMachine original post? No just jump into a discussion half way through and reply without any context He said "Batteries don't last in Thai weather." He was claiming that batteries in Thailand would die in 5 years. Thailand is not the only hot country in the world with EVs unfortunately they have only been sold in any number here for 4 years, so we had to look at examples elsewhere.

I have posted a new topic in the Thailand Motor Discussion “Factchecking 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles“

Views on EVs seem to be polarized along political lines. Views seem to depend on which echo chamber you spend your time in. One thing is certain however and that is discussions about EVs on the Thailand Motor Forum seem to generate a lot of interest, both for and against. For those of us who own EVs in Thailand it can be frustrating having to fact check the same things all the time, so I am posting this link to facilitate the debates https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/ Questions covered in the article: ‘An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even’ ‘VW’s e-Golf becomes more environmentally friendly only after 77,000 miles’ The ‘electric Volvo C40 needs to be driven around 68,400 miles to cut carbon’ ‘Electric vehicles have little or no CO2 advantage over the car you already drive’ ‘Climate change is accelerating because of the ban on combustion-engines’ ‘Old bangers are the green motorist’s choice’ ‘EVs simply displace carbon emissions from roads to distant power stations’ ‘Electric cars are not green machines’ ‘Electric vehicles alone can’t solve climate change’ ‘EVs are [low-mileage] runabouts…[that] take a long time to pay off their carbon debt’ ‘Synthetic petrol could displace electric vehicles’ ‘Hydrogen cars are more sustainable than EVs’ ‘Sales of electric vehicles appear to be slowing’ ‘Electric cars could soon be more expensive to drive than their petrol equivalents’ ‘There are insufficient raw materials…for all vehicles to be EVs’ The lifetime of EV batteries is ‘horribly uncertain’ ‘Electric vehicles can explode – petrol ones only do it in movies’ ‘Under Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, 40% of US auto jobs will disappear’ ‘Electric car revolution at crisis point’ due to ‘charging point shortage’ ‘Britain’s creaking power grid cannot cope with charging electric cars’ ‘How your super heavy EV produces MORE pollution than petrol and diesel cars’

I wonder if Mr @TimeMachine knows about BMS and active battery cooling in EVs? Maybe if he did he might have suggested a longer battery life. For Mr @TimeMachine benefit and any other ultracrepidarians who join us here to deposit their pearls of wisdom 💩 An EV’s battery gets most hot when it is producing power to drive the vehicle and when it’s being charged at high speed. This is when active cooling is initiated. If the battery gets too hot during charging the charging speed can be slowed or even stopped temporarily. Sophisticated battery monitoring systems and active cooling is what differentiates EV batteries from those that Mr @TimeMachine apparently has some experience with like power drill batteries.

I will go first. My oldest EV is now 2.5 years old and has suffered less than 2% battery degradation so better than the grey warranty line. We now have one piece of real data for Thailand EVs Anybody else?

Ok let’s look at the facts provided. We should start by defining terms like “they won’t work” that means zero battery capacity because a 50kWh battery with 1% battery can still drive about 3km I will consider 3 alternatives Mr @TimeMachine 5 year and 8 year life - his best and worse case scenarios as well as the most common battery warranty offered in Thailand of 8 year with no more than 70% degradation Mr @TimeMachine has offered no primary or secondary research to support his theory so we will conduct some here. This is a call out to all EV owners in Thailand please look at the graph below and consider the battery degradation your EV has suffered so far and please post a reply stating which line most closely represents the battery degradation you have suffered.

I’m keen to know more about Mr @TimeMachine and his theory. He clearly doesn’t own an EV himself because he said Not the words of a man who bought an EV. So his theory is not based on primary research, unless of course he has a friend who has an EV. But surely if this man was his friend he would have reasoned with him against buying an EV. No I think the friend theory is a bust. Maybe it’s something to do with the “evap cooler in Big C” which he seems to despise just as much as EV batteries. Maybe there was a traumatic experience with the evap cooler from Big C which has led to an irrational mistrust of all technology Hoping Mr @TimeMachine replies with further insights