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Bandersnatch

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  1. H2 is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry and their lobbyists. As at the end of 2021 47% was made from natural gas, 27% from Coal, 22% from oil and only 4% from electrolysis because it so expensive. https://www.irena.org/Energy-Transition/Technology/Hydrogen#:~:text=As at the end of,around 4% comes from electrolysis. So basically H2 is a fossil fuel. H2 is also being pushed by Japanese Legacy automakers who are late to the EV party and are trying to muddy the debate around Green Energy. Even using Grey and Brown H2 it is still not economic for passenger vehicles. If it was, it would have happened by now.
  2. Don’t worry the map hasn’t changed much since 2015. The link to the live map wouldn’t load on my phone but here it is now https://www.h2stations.org/stations-map/?lat=24.310177&lng=120.756532&zoom=4 And a screen shot
  3. Yes you can but not sure why you would want to as solar increases the value of the house: 2 identical houses one with a ฿5,000 a month electricity bill the other with ฿500 which would you buy? I have already answered this in my reply to the OP please see above. Federal funding isn’t going to help us here in Thailand. I don’t see any investment here in H2 for passenger vehicles.
  4. This is a discussion about EVs. I’ve just bought my second and you don’t own any and yet you think I’m ignorant about EVS. Stick to subjects that you actually know something about.
  5. Next time you’re driving by your local BYD dealer, take the BYD Seal for a test drive. It has very impressive handling and is shod in 19inch 235/45-profile Continental SportContact rubber. The 3.8sec 0-100kph AWD version has semi adaptive suspension and Intelligent Torque Adaption Control.
  6. H2 is just not economic to produce in a sustainable way. When I make power from my solar system to put in my electric car there is some small efficiency loss due to the inversion process, but over 90% of the energy ends up in my car. With current electrolyzers, green hydrogen's efficiency is around 30%, which means 70% of the renewable energy put into producing green hydrogen is lost across the full cycle of production and use. Good luck with Hydrogen in Thailand. Where are you going to buy your Hydrogen car - none for sale here. Toyota keeps making promises about it's Mirai but you can't buy it here. Then where will you fill it up? Thailand has no public H2 filling stations.
  7. You couldn’t be more wrong. My new EV has a structural battery pack which great torsional rigidity. The weight is set down low under the car with perfect weight distribution.
  8. The problem here should be obvious in this discussion. The OP doesn’t own an EV and clearly from the amount of fact checking I had to do on his post, knows very little about them. Yet he feels the need to spread the gospel of “Anti-EV” I frankly think it’s pretty sad
  9. Not economic. When I make power from my solar system to put in my electric car there is some small efficiency loss due to the inversion process, but over 90% of the energy ends up in my car. With current electrolyzers, green hydrogen's efficiency is around 30%, which means 70% of the renewable energy put into producing green hydrogen is lost across the full cycle of production and use. Good luck with Hydrogen in Thailand. Where are you going to buy your Hydrogen car - none for sale here. Toyota keeps making promises about it's Mirai but you can't buy it here. Then where will you fill it up? Thailand has no public H2 filling stations. I make power for my electric car from my home solar system - try making H2 at home. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and always will be
  10. In this discussion I have seen 3 people who have both solar and an EV, there maybe be more. I already said I have not seen a Thai study so can’t give you an exact % Most people get solar to power their house first, but in my graph above it should quite clear that the excess solar is “free power” and in my case it is curtailed.
  11. Based on comments in the EVs in Thailand discussion, many start with solar then get an EV. I am also a member of number of Thai EV groups and hear similar comments. I am not aware of any studies on the subject here in Thailand, but once people get solar and realise the massive surplus of energy that is generated in the middle of the day it really is a only common sense to consider an EV you can drive for free. Here is a graph of power generation from one of my inverters.
  12. A guy who doesn’t own an EV telling those of us who do that there are no EV chargers in Thailand. If you look closely at the map you will even see my house listed as a charging station.
  13. If you actually knew anything about EVs you would know that battery chemistry is changing. The 2 biggest EV manufactures are BYD - 100% lithium iron phosphate batteries (LFP) - and Tesla whose best selling models by far are the standard range model 3 & Y that now mostly use lithium iron phosphate (LFP). Ford has also moved to LFP. LFP are far safer than Li Ion My home batteries and new EV have LFP
  14. No evidence for that (again) Thanks to @Georgealbert for the link https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/news/london-luton-airport-car-park-fire Thanks
  15. “Hitting a bump in the road” What a ridiculous thing to say. Here is a video of my EV being crash tested (twice) and the battery being tested afterwards.
  16. My new EV is a saloon (sedan) and weighs less than the average pickup that most people seem to drive here. If you were serious about car park problems you would also call to ban pickup trucks - good luck with that.
  17. Currently Thailand’s feed-in credit for solar is a flat rate and not time (demand based) When PEA and MEA get serious about this problem they will call on prosumers like myself. I have 36 kWh of home batteries and a new EV with 82.5 kWh and bi-directional charging. I would be happy to feedback to my local grid here in Thailand if there were incentives to do so. This is already happening around the world.
  18. In Thailand peak demand for electricity is during the day. There is excess supply at night that is why Thailand has cheap TOU rates overnight when most people without solar will charge.
  19. These problems are being solved all around the world. In Norway 80% of new cars purchased last year were electric. You would know this if you had bothered to do some research before giving the rest of us the job of fact checking everything you say.
  20. You clearly don’t know how to read a graph! The calculus used by Volvo says the results depend in large measure on the source of electricity its customers use to charge their vehicles and the 2 year old report said that the grid is greening all the time, so it’s findings are already out of date. In my case I drive my EVs using excess power produced from my home solar. Many EV owners here in Thailand have solar. The report said that internal combustion technology has had over a century to get where it is today. EV technology, on the other hand, is still in its infancy. Improvements in battery technology are happening almost daily. Battery recycling operations are ramping up around the world, which will significantly reduce the need to mine lithium and other natural resources, like nickel and cobalt, that are used to make today’s lithium-ion batteries. The report is not without it’s critics, It claims part of the reason its electric cars create more emissions in the production phase is because they use more aluminum, yet the charts that accompany the report show the gasoline-powered XC40 has an aluminum content of 34%, while the XC40 Recharge uses 30% aluminum and the C40 Recharge 29%.
  21. https://www.reverautomotive.com/en/model/seal/overview
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