Bandersnatch

2 hours ago, mistral53 said:

In all fairness to potential solar power adapters - these numbers for investment are completely off the kilter, I reckon you paid about half what is common, at least in our neck of the woods and around BKK. Good for you buddy........ I wish such price levels were offered everywhere. 

There is quite an active solar group here in the Alt. Energy Forum.

I purchase the panels locally and imported the batteries and inverters from China. I then employed a Thai team to install 

My Main Components
20,000 Watts of PV @ ฿9/W 
9kWh LiFePO4 Batteries ฿68,000 x 4 
Inverters ฿36,000 x 3 

The cheapest way is obviously to do it all yourself:  

https://aseannow.com/topic/1288002-home-solar-a-diy-approach/

On 6/7/2023 at 8:48 AM, motdaeng said:

https://ex30event.volvocars.com/

 

if anyone is interested in watching the EX30 livestream today (7.june 18.30) here's the YouTube link. 

 

 

Thanks for the heads up on the EX30. The video wasn’t too fact filled so I went looking for more info.

The good news for Thailand buyers is that the The EX30 will be produced at Geely‘s Zhangjiakou plant in China and not in Sweden so no import duties.

https://www.volvocars.com/th-th/cars/ex30-electric/

2 hours ago, tomkenet said:

Just visited the BYD dealership in rayong. They said Seal is probably coming to Thailand in November and the price starting at 1.7mthb. 

I was hoping it was going to be a bit cheaper than the Tesla Model 3

32 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I thought they had had a rethink, got together with BYD to create the bz3 ?, looks nicer than the bZ4X imho, those over the top black wheel arch protectors and lashings of piano black give the 4 an unnecessary plasticky look and where is the glove box ?

 

Here’s the bz3 with some specs in English, okay if you are a speed reader !

 

While I am a fan of the flush door handle fashion I am not sure i like the method of opening the door adopted on the bz3 .

Guess it all depends if you want a Crossover ( 4 ) or a Saloon (3), or 1 sunroof or 2 ?

 

First impressions matter, for me anyway, and I much prefer the bz3 to the bZ4X, but no plans to come to Thailand as far as I know.

Unfortunately, Toyota has announced the bZ3 will be a China-only model

Toyota actually make a very good PHEV, I’m not sure why it’s not available in Thailand as I’m sure it would sell well.

The all electric Toyota bZ4X is now showing on the Toyota Thailand website at ฿1.8m+

It has a rocky start with some unfortunate headlines:

Good YouTube reviews are actually hard to find as most are “First Look” reviews from about a year ago where the reviewer has only a short time with the car under controlled conditions with Toyota press cars.

Two channels that have more recent in depth reviews:

Here is one of the “First Look” reviews from a year ago so you can see the car in more detail, but they have to take the Toyota stats as given.

This just came up on my Tesla Line Feed. Not sure what to make of it. 

maybe it was a suggestion from Elon’s new friend Ron DeSantis

10 hours ago, Muhendis said:

I also thought about Redflow as a home ESS solution and contacted the Ausie firm for prices etc. This was before manufacturing in Thailand. 

They gave me the contact number etc of a company in Chiang Mai who offered a ridiculously high price.

Did I buy? Never in a million years.

I think that they are manufactured in a free port designed for companies wanting to manufacture for export. Once the batteries enter Thailand they are treated as being imported and are subject to import duties!

31 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

This is almost as funny as the phrase "premium Chinese brands" 

 

Did you mean to say the most selling EV?

Tesla Model Y was the 4th best selling model world wide last year and all indications are that it will be number one this year.

China's Great Wall Motor plans EV battery assembly and research center in Thailand

GWM plans to invest up to $30 million to set up a new battery pack assembly plant in Thailand, where it will start making a compact electric car next year, according to a company official.

GWM is also considering establishing a research and development centre in Thailand that could work on battery powered pickup trucks (pickup trucks accounting for more than half of sales last year in Thailand)

Thailand, the world's tenth-largest auto manufacturing economy, aims to use tax cuts and subsidies to help convert about 30% of the country's annual production of 2.5 million vehicles into EVs by 2030, according to a government plan.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-great-wall-motor-plans-ev-battery-assembly-research-thailand-2023-05-30/

The new BMW iX1 is getting good reviews in Europe priced at ฿2.1m but when I asked BMW staff at the BKK motor show about it coming to Thailand they didn’t know when it was coming here. 

BMWs are always much more expensive here in Thailand so I am not expecting it to be Tesla money.

However there is news of Plug-in Hybrids coming to Thailand.

xDrive25e

TwinPower Turbo 3-cylinder petrol engine, 1.5 liter

Acceleration 0-100 km/h in 6.8 seconds
 

xDrive30e - ฿2.8m
Acceleration 0-100 km/h in 5.7 seconds

Both plug-in hybrid models are equipped with 14.2 kWh batteries and electric motor that gives 89 km of EV only range.

https://www.bmw.co.th/th/all-models/x-series/X1/2022/bmw-x1-overview.html

Lot's of EV options from MG and Fast DC charging at dealerships

6 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Unfortunately, I already have a solar power installation with batteries, but can't help wondering how 869,000 baht for an entry level MG4 compares to a 50 Kw LFP Battery, Charger & Inverter bought separately for Emergency Power, with the bonus you can go out & about in it!  Also. the battery comes with an 8 year warranty,

V2L is a key feature that I’m looking for in my next EV. Like you I have solar and batteries. I can’t justify buying anymore batteries that I might only use twice a year, but having an EV with V2L would be ideal. 

We have a solar water heater which we installed when we built the house a few years ago.

I think you are going to want to have manual control at the shower, because the temperature of solar thermal water in Thailand varies from near boiling to pleasantly warm. I have a “cold” feed blue pipe from a tank of filtered rainwater and a hot feed from the solar thermal. I vary the percentage of hot from 0-100% depending on the season. My Thai wife’s preferred percentages are obviously different to mine.

I don’t think you are going to have to re-tile as you can drill through from the tile side of the bathroom to accommodate a 20mm green pipe without breaking tiles if you use plenty of water and a diamond tile bit (plenty of videos on online to help you)  

1 hour ago, motdaeng said:

 

i looked into tesla,  it's still on my list, but not in my top 3 ...

 

what i do like about tesla: software, performance, spacious and the consumtion ...

 

what I don't like about tesla: build quality, sunroof, no ventilated seats, no driver instrument display,

no head-up display, (for the moment) the only service centre is in bangkok, premium price in thailand,

but the interior doesn't feel premium,   a unpredictable elon musk ....

 

 

on the 7.june volvo will introduce the new all electric ex30 ... that could be an interesting alternative ...

100% agree with what you said. Would just add an advantage for Teslas is the charging:

#250kW is faster than most EVs.
#Tesla superchargers have the highest uptime of any charging network.

#Roll up to a Supercharger and plug in and it starts charging straight away, no apps or cards.

#Don’t unplug when you’re fully charged and get hit with idle charges which helps keeps queues short. #Tesla superchargers are Tesla only in Thailand.