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BYD Seal has received a five-star rating from ANCAP https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/byd-seal-earns-five-star-ancap-rating

Just ordered my second EV so will have 2 in the house running on solar. Latest car has a 82.5kWh LFP battery which is warrantied for 8 years - if the battery drops below 80% capacity in that time it will be replaced for free. The car also has 8 years of warranty and 8 years of 100% free servicing and breakdown cover. The car has V2L (bi-directional charging) so I can use it to support my home solar system or charge my other electric car and electric scooter. The car has an 650km range and drives like a sports car. I am definitely “enthusiastic” about it.

@josephbloggs This my thoughts

@Andrew Dwyer Have you checked with your local PEA office that they will allow you to have a second meter as a TOU?

MG supplied just the wall charger. The installer supplied the breaker box and cables back to my closest consumer unit in my mech room Usually 15m of cable back to a source of electricity consumer unit for me - TOU meter for you. You pay extra for longer cable or different spec. The installer will come and do a site survey before the installation You are responsible for cable from the meter to the house. Maybe the BYD installer could do it or you could get an electrician to run cable from a small consumer unit via a breaker to the post where the meter will be installed and PEA will attach it to their meter.

You did that on purpose. you know it’s called the bZ4X Toyota get very upset when you get the name wrong

You’re not wrong there

I chose not to join the Solar Rooftop feed-in program as at the time the rate was a Buy-Back at 1.68 Baht/KWh. It has now been raised to 2.2 Baht. I had single phase electric as I planned to go off-grid. The max PV was 5kW with 10kW for 3 phase. Inverters had to be on PEAs approved list. This was a few years ago and may have changed. When I bought my first EV I did look at TOU because I was told that I couldn’t use solar with the supplied EV charger. I don’t think TOU makes sense unless you have a high nighttime load like EV charging. PEA rules vary by office and even within the same office. Not much you can do about it. I have had my meter changed 5 times as it wasn’t moving they thought it was broken. I have been accused of breaking the meters with my solar even though my grid connection is permanently switched off. I have also been accused of spinning the meter backwards (to the same reading every month) each time I ask for a digital meter. Over 5 years now still waiting.

apparently so

Good point the CHAdeMO charging standard is not long for this world.

"In terms of total vehicles sold in Thailand, BYD has surpassed four smaller Japanese competitors, namely Nissan, Mitsubishi Motors, Mazda and Suzuki" If you own a Japanese ICE vehicle you would be sensible to sell it while it still has some value. Here in Thailand last month EV sales were over 10% of total vehicle sales: Chinese EVs 6,007 ; Tesla 375; Japanese EVs 19

I’ve test driven both and my opinion of the MG 4 is that it’s a great little family hatchback. A little slow off the line, but fine once it’s going. It’s practical and great value for money. So why did I order a Seal Premium at twice the price, because it feels like twice the car. It is luxurious and polished and a joy to drive. If you want a car that gets the job done competently, then go for the MG4, but if you want a car that brings a smile to your face every time you drive it, then buy a Seal.

"EVs don't work for people who live in apartment buildings - how are they going to charge?" You will certainly have seen statements like this, but it's nice to see the that condos in Thailand are now being built with EV charging built in.

Did you find a sun blind for the glass roof? My sales girl said it's included.

Didn’t know that

First year is free

might need to change the name of this discussion to “Seal Club Thailand” 🦭 How many posters here have ordered Seals?

Didn't know you'd ordered a Seal Premium - did I miss the announcement? or was that it? Congratulations. What did you think of the test drive? What colour did you order?

Without the CO2 driven greenhouse effect this planet would be a lifeless ball of ice. "warmer climates are better than colder climates" but you can have too much of a good thing 40 ° C in the UK like we had this year is a challenge with houses designed temperate conditions. What will Thailand be like when 50 ° C is the norm? US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/11/us-record-billion-dollar-climate-disasters

Can't talk for all EVs but for mine the charging port locks during charging.

Gave up waiting for you to support this statement. They were used in the nickel-metal hydride batteries used by early hybrids, but rare earths are not used in lithium ion batteries. 'rare-earth' is a misnomer because they are not actually scarce, although historically it took a long time to isolate these elements. rare-earth elements are technically relatively plentiful in the entire Earth's crust (cerium being the 25th-most-abundant element at 68 parts per million, more abundant than copper Ce and La are important as catalysts, and are used for petroleum refining and as diesel additives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element The moral here is to check what you write before you write it or get called out on it.

BYD Seal Premium (LR RWD)

If you don't drive an EV then you probably don't even notice them. Many fuel stations have them. Many shopping centers will have several. Every MG and BYD dealership that you drive by has them. Thailand is currently in a honeymoon period when there are lots of chargers and not many people wanting to use them. The only time I have seen chargers busy is when the whole of Thailand decides to take to the roads at the same time. My new EV has an 82.56kWh usable battery capacity. As it has Lithium Iron Phosphate battery chemistry it is fine to leave it at a 100% state of charge. It has 650km range and a 150kW charging speed meaning that it can add nearly 400km range in 20 minutes. Unless I am travelling more than 650km I will charge at home.

I lived in Bangkok for 5 years and never considered the air quality “very good” .

I ordered the Seal Premium LR RWD. Like you I wanted LFP but I also wanted V2L, which I was hoping would appear in the Highland Model 3. When it didn’t my mind was made up. My wife thinks the lack of indicator stalks and drive selector on the screen is a dealbreaker.