Bandersnatch

My current car does 0-100k/h in 6.9 seconds and that is plenty fast enough to get away from coal rolling pickup trucks so for sure 5.9 seconds 0-100 would be fine for me.

32 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Any news on an electric pick up truck in Thailand?

Just out of curiosity, I did a Google search but could not find anything .  

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/electric-isuzu-d-max-to-launch-in-2025-as-australian-thai-markets-turn-up-heat-on

11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's sad that some people don't want to accept the fact that EVs and batteries have also downsides.

Recently many topics are like religion. You are part of this or that religion, it's impossible to just discuss facts and pros and cons.

I am happy to have an intelligent conversation about EVs, but I find myself as an EV owner here in Thailand having to fact check almost everything that is posted by people that don’t own EVs here.

It might sound like EV owners are not prepared to consider the downside of EVs but on the flip side I rarely hear anything sensible said by non EV owners.

@OneMoreFarang maybe you can prove me wrong. 

Is owning an EV as easy as owning an ICE car? No it’s not, when you fill up you can pay with cash and the staff will take care of everything. Public EV charging requires an app and there is nobody there to hold your hand - this is just too hard for some folk.

This is a post I made on my EVs in Thailand discussion over a year ago

On 9/19/2023 at 8:06 PM, pgrahmm said:

There is a series of videos out of EV's running out of battery charge 40-80% before the initially indicated available range displayed on start up

@pgrahmm  - you have been asked twice to post these videos showing EVs only having 20% of initial indicated available range.

You are clearly happy to make stuff up and think people will believe you - very sad

8 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

if I did get either an EV or hybrid I would put it in the garden about 20 metres from our house

You can see from my profile picture, that I am not worried about parking my EV close to my house. 
 

I also have 36kWh of LFP batteries in my mechanical room a few meters from where I sleep. 
 

1 hour ago, sometimewoodworker said:

If he were anti EV he wouldn’t produce a video like this

I didn’t know he was selling EVs now.

His videos normally get trotted out when anybody wants to bash EVs

19 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

A lot of buzz about the BYD Seal.

 

 

some more gossip about the price, please excuse the Google translation.
 

I think the cheapest one has the BYD Atto 3 Extended Range 61kWh battery.

 

Next has the 82.5kWh with RWD

 

Then the AWD

 

 

11 minutes ago, matchar said:

Looks nice, a shame about the Lithium Ternary (NMC) battery though.

The video is 10 months old  - anything could have happened in the meantime, but I agree LFP for me

13 hours ago, vinny41 said:

ChangAn Deepal SL03, 100% electric car, launched in Thailand at the end of 2023, 79.9 kWh battery, price comparable to C-Segment.

 It is expected that the price will be in the range of 1.1-1.3 million baht.

https://autolifethailand.tv/changan-deepal-sl03-coming-soon-thailand-2023/

I wonder if they will be bringing the $103,000 Hydrogen fuel cell version ????

On 9/19/2023 at 8:06 PM, pgrahmm said:

All well and good comments.....

There is a series of videos out of EV's running out of battery charge 40-80% before the initially indicated available range displayed on start up....

Can you share the videos?
 

I’ve done a search and can’t find any videos of an EV only having 20% of initial indicated available range

Some good contributions from @Pib over on the “Are you thinking of buying a BYD” discussion which was started to try and show that BYDs all catch fire in China.
 

Here we try to keep the discussion focused on EVs in Thailand 

A lot of buzz about the BYD Seal.

some more gossip about the price, please excuse the Google translation.
 

I think the cheapest one has the BYD Atto 3 Extended Range 61kWh battery.

Next has the 82.5kWh with RWD

Then the AWD

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Sadly, that would hurt most of the common folks, as DECO MBs are quite the value with the incentives.  

Glad I bought my Electric motorbike in time to get the discount.

Currently debating bringing forward the purchase of my second EV  - bad case of FOMO 

22 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

From that you get:

1 phone = 62,500 EVs

?

On 9/23/2023 at 3:41 PM, Stevemercer said:

Fuel excises were worth $3.77 billion in 2022/23 revenue to the Australian government, charged at about 48 cents per litre of petrol. Nearly half is spent on road infrastructure and the rest goes to consolidated revenue. The average cost to each household is about $1210. To replace this revenue, an additional $1210 per year could be placed on individual car registrations. Of course, this could be done gradually as electric car uptake increases and should also apply to IC cars.

Rather than spending tax payers money on fossil fuel subsidies it could be spent on roads instead.

"Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion or 7.1 percent of GDP in 2022, reflecting a $2 trillion increase since 2020"

https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies

6 minutes ago, n00dle said:

I built a house in 2011,  solar had no potential for RO at allI. It would have cost well over 1 million  baht for a system that wouldn't  have made us evem  remotely self-suficient and we would have already have had to replace the panels and batteries

certainly a very different story now, 

My main solar components cost about ฿500k. It powers my house and EV. I haven’t used any grid power in the last year. My payback is less than 6yrs.

The cost of providing electricity is not fixed, it varies with demand. To lower the overall cost we need to flatten the demand curve and remove the most expensive peaks.

Some people still seem to think that EVs are the problem not the solution. 

Many EVs  - all BYDs and the latest MGs come with bidirectional charging.

“Batteries on wheels: California to mandate bidirectional charging on EVs from 2027” will mean that all EVs will soon have bidirectional charging.

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/05/batteries-on-wheels-california-to-mandate-bidirectional-charging-on-evs-from-2027/

If you have, solar, home batteries or an EV this video looks at how smart tariffs can flatten the demand curve.

If you want to understand how smart electricity pricing can reflect the actual cost of electricity in real time watch this video.

Yes, these videos are from the UK but they show the direction we should all be going.

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

Another review of the MG Cyberster, it’s looking better and better.  However, some may prefer their V8 smoke machines and pontycrap’s.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzPB2fGN88

Car looks great, I have done some podcasts with Miles Roberts he knows his stuff.

In the video below the MG owners club at Swavesey, near Cambridge is featured, brought back memories of many visits buying bits for a restoration. 
 

Yes it’s raining now and yes we are in the rainy season, but

On 9/21/2023 at 8:26 PM, snoop1130 said:

total accumulated rainfall being about 14% less than normal