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“Tesla reservations for its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles have been skyrocketing in Thailand. Tesla has received more than 5,000 Model 3 and Model Y orders since launching in Thailand” https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-thailand-model-y-model-3-reservations/

@mistral53 do keep us posted on your experiences. I for one will have questions and I am sure many others will have too. It’s normal in Thailand to get a free 1 year of First Class insurance with a new car. There was nothing on the Tesla website about insurance. Tesla does sell it’s own insurance in some states in the USA. Some FB groups are saying insurance can cost ฿50,000 which is what you would pay for a similar priced BMW. All the reviews I have seen claim that Teslas have a firm ride, with the Y being worse and on both models being worse the bigger the wheels you choose. The model Y has recently been released with “comfort suspension” which slightly less firm.

Those of us who have been watching the EV market in Thailand for a while have become used to seeing high prices for EVs. Back in 2018 I attended the Bangkok motor show looking for an EV and the Nissan Leaf was probably the cheapest at 2 million Baht. So at ฿1,959,000 are we being overcharged by Tesla for the Model Y RWD in Thailand? This video shows The price of the Model Y in all countries that it’s sold.

I haven’t ordered yet, but deliveries are expected Q1 2023. Inventory at the Shanghai plant is building and Tesla is offering incentives in China if you buy from inventory.

Maybe ordered a BYD then cancelled and ordered a Tesla instead

An update of the above that includes Tesla who did not attend the Bangkok auto show this month, but instead held an event at a shopping center nearby. Legacy automakers here should be worried when they look at car bookings at the 2 events

@GregKeo - apologies. kWh stands for Kilo (meaning thousand) W = Watt a unit of power it is named after the Scottish inventor James Watt and as it is a proper noun it is always shown capitalized. h = hour. So a a kWh is how many kWs are used in an hour. If you switch on 10 x 100 Watt light bulbs for an hour it will use one kWh. PEA (Provincial Electricity Authority) and MEA (The Metropolitan Electricity Authority) units on your electric bill are one kWh each. T.O.U. stands for time of use rate I should point out that this discussion has over twelve hundred posts and at this point in the discussion those active in this discussion are well aware of all the abbreviations used. You could try this Link

Tesla’s first supercharger in Thailand will be opened in Q1 2023, and Tesla drivers will have access to up to at least 10 Supercharging stations by 2023 . Owners can charge the car up to 275 km in just 15 minutes. For the first delivery batch in Q1 Visit Tesla online at https://www.tesla.com/th_TH Toll-free Hotline: (1800) 011199 Join Tesla Thailand LINE@ account for the latest updates: https://lin.ee/PP2mP8G Search ID: @TeslaTH

Both dirt and concrete have very poor insulative properties which means that they are good conductors of heat compared to something like foam which has an R value of 7 - that is why they serve hot coffee in foam cups If you have any further questions please ask Google

I am not sure how you know better than I do where my slab starts and finishes! The first photo has no concrete underneath, just dirt. In the second photograph this is what I was measuring - doesn't look like a slab to me, but if you want to call it a slab, I will let it slide This I agree with

I did an inexpensive geothermal experiment using PE pipe as it was impossible to source genuine geothermal pipe in Thailand. As you said it wasn’t successful. I am still looking at Geothermal and think the way to go is either a closed or open loop groundwater system combined with a heat pump. Water has a far higher thermal conductivity than air (0.6 vs 0.025 Watts per m Kelvin) So it is far more efficient at moving cold into a warm house or heat into a cold house. Easy enough to drill a bore hole down to the water table. I have 3 solar well pumps and have tested the temperature of the water at 30m and it is a steady 19°C all year round.

But black is the free color!, white is ฿50,000

Tesla updates in website to include Thailand https://www.tesla.com/en_TH/modely/design#overview https://www.tesla.com/en_TH/model3/design#overview

Agreed some of that heat will pass into the house

The fact that concrete easily absorbs heat means it has a lot of thermal mass - did you not hear what I said dark colored concrete roof tiles in Thailand?

Trying again …. R-value is a measure of how a material resists the conductive flow of heat. Concrete has an R-value of 0.1 meaning that heat easily passes through it. It will be heated from the edges and cooled from above when you switch on the air con.

I agree "soil temperature stays in the low 20s at few meters of depth" a similar R value to concrete of 0.1 per inch Unfortunately you cannot debate the laws of physics but if you want some research I have just been outside to conduct some. Temperature of the ground in full sun: Temperature of the shaded uninsulated foundations: Now the foundations are at 39 degrees the concrete will quickly pass that heat through the rest of the concrete of the house until they reach the insulation layer.

Thanks to Richard Barrow in Bangkok for posting these slides to Facebook - I wasn't able to get a clear picture from the live stream Anybody interested in buying a secondhand Tesla?

The ground beside the house directly heated by the sun will be in the 50s degree Centigrade. “With heat transfer the driving force is temperature difference” - first words of my video. The bigger the temperature difference the quicker the temperature equalization will occur. Earth has a low R value

Model Y ฿ 1.959m Model 3 ฿1.759m

If you run aircon the house will be cooler than the outside. Concrete has no insulation value and heat will move into the house to restore equilibrium temperature

I wanted to be off-grid and not reliant on PEA

Tesla live reveal https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=2096224160587526

I built an off-grid home with no utility bills. I have put what I learnt about insulation for hot climates into a video: