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16 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

the problem is that an EV fire is wildly intense and there are many cases of EV catching fire, on charge, off charge, whenever

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

16 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

that the diesel Range Rover identified as catching fire first, was probably a hybrid version. 

No evidence for that (again)

Thanks to @Georgealbert for the link https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/news/london-luton-airport-car-park-fire

Thanks 

16 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

it's also worth bearing in mind that a battery pack might be damaged by hitting a hump in the road, mounting a kerb and so on. MMMmmm

“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 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

a street with every house having EV's will need an uplift in the capacity of the local electricity infrastructure.

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.

16 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

how do persons living in an apartment block or in a house with no driveway/carport/garage, manage to get the charge supply to the vehicle

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.

15 hours ago, TorquayFan said:

It's worth noting that. the rush to build massive numbers of EV is questionable because according to very detailed research by Volvo, the environmental tag for EV manufacture is so much higher that it is not repaid until the vehicle has done an extra 100,000 km than an ICE vehicle

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%.

20 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

driver setting memories

https://www.reverautomotive.com/en/model/seal/overview

My Thai Wife was hoping we would buy a BMW iX1 (still hasn’t arrived in Thailand) She didn’t feel that the spartan interior of Teslas really looked like luxury.

I wasn’t impressed with it’s 64 kWh Li-ion battery and it’s expected high price, but we did end up watching a number of videos of German EVs.

This guy does great reviews and he really knows his luxury cars.

11 hours ago, Pib said:

Fortunately this particular OBD2 adapter is also dirt cheap....around Bt50 on Lazada and Shopee.  I ordered one this evening

Thanks @Pib looking forward to your review before I shell out the big bucks.

3 hours ago, mistral53 said:

Have you been reading the user's manual while you are patiently waiting for your car to arrive?

Sad I know, but yes I have. I downloaded the PDF of the english language version of the European Seal, which is now sitting in my dropbox. 

The cars are quite complex so it is a good idea.

Unlike Atto 3 owners, there are not too many helpful guides to the seal on YouTube. Perhaps I’ll have to make one.

2 hours ago, Pib said:

ask your dealership exactly what is the BYD distributor Rever estimating for a delivery date

Thanks for the tip.

I am a member of the MGEVForum https://www.mgevs.com/ and you regularly hear discussions about what boat your car is on and people track the boat from China to the UK.

Jimmy Patronis quoted in the video is technically Florida’s state fire marshal, but he’s not a fireman he is a restaurant owner and now a Republican politician telling lies about EVs. 

The State Fire Marshal’s office shared a bulletin by the National Fire Protection Association about how to handle submerged hybrid and electric vehicles. In the bulletin, it plainly says: “Submersion in water (especially salt water) can damage low and high voltage components. Although not a common occurrence, this could result in an electrical short and potential fire once the vehicle is no longer submerged.”

51 minutes ago, macahoom said:

I just got word from my dealership today that I should have my Seal in "about two weeks". 

 

Up until today, I wasn't getting anything other than vagueness from them when I asked when I might be getting the car.

 

Let's see.

 

Great news, I’m still in the vagueness stage of maybe this month or next.

I heard that BYD have delayed the launch of the Seal in Australia, maybe it’s a stock issue. 

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

What would work for everyone is a cheap Chinese timer and a contactor, start charging and stop automatically a few hours later.

Not sure if you’ve seen the video @Pib was discussing but it was about installing a smart WiFi breaker. You can setup various routines in the Tuya app including automatic switching off.

12 minutes ago, Pib said:

Thanks.   Since I'm in the processing of buying an EV (Atto 3) I was interested in one of your videos titled "How to make a dumb EV charger a bit smarter" where you said after fully charging your house solar batteries you then use the  EV wall charger powered by the house battery to charge your EV because you don't want to use power from the grid...all understandable. 

 

However, then you say when you forget to turn off the wall charger it drains your house battery which is understandable but you say it's like a bad thing when you intentionally power the wall charger from the house solar batteries..."or" maybe you meant it can completely drain the house battery "down to zero."    

 

Not knowing how big your house solar batteries are (a lot bigger or smaller than the EV battery) and/or when any charger will stop drawing significant power once a battery is full, whether in your EV or smartphone, I'm somewhat confused on what you mean in the video about it can completely drain your house batteries.  I guess the size of our house batteries is key....if significantly smaller than the EV battery then I understand.  

 

Thanks for your channel....looks like all your videos are meant to pass along good info.

 

 

 

My Grid connection is switched off so if I am charging the car from solar and if it starts to rain, I might not know as my house is basically a bunker. Then we are draining the house batteries into the car. If the house batteries get down to 60% before I realise we might not have enough battery for the rest of the day and the night. 
 

When the seal arrives I will feed V2L into my inverters to power the load (run the house) not charge the batteries for a few hours. Then I will have fewer hours to run the house from home batteries.

Hope that is clear. 
 

I have investigated solar diverter EV chargers like myenergi zappi they claim to only charge your EV with excess solar power, but they determine that by monitoring exported power via a CT clamp. Unfortunately they don’t work in off-grid situations like mine.

“Shut the door too hard in an EV and the battery catches fire”

There are a number of excellent Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cars available for sale now in Thailand: Any BYD, MG4, RWD Teslas any more I missed?

An intelligent approach to this problem would be dynamic pricing that reflect electricity wholesale prices. So at times of excess supply, electricity prices go negative and EVs start charging for free, but any exports incur negative payments.

Such a system would make home batteries much more financially attractive.

To a certain extent this is already happening with electricity tariffs like Octopus Flux in the UK.

1 hour ago, Melpomene said:

We've always paid cash for our cars, but I may be tempted to finance this one as I didn't realise this would be possible, so it's good to know you can do this

This is the 7th new vehicle I have bought in Thailand. The first 5 I paid cash.
 

I had seen the MG EP EV at a show and wanted to test drive it. My local dealer didn’t have one so I tested another car that was twice the price. I told the dealer it would take me some time to arrange the money and they suggested financing. I was surprised it worked but I now prefer to pay for cars from income than cash in investments.

1 minute ago, macahoom said:

I got the impression, from the Seal forum, that the Performance was not being ordered much.

 

At the close of business on launch day, only 2 Performance models had been ordered in Phuket, both of which had been reserved before launch day.

 

 

Maybe you’re right. My dealership is only posting pics of AWD version and seen a few pics of Black AWDs on the Seal Forum but they might be the same car. I know Admin has a Black AWD