Gweiloman

I’m extremely upset with BYD Chiang Mai. I took my car in for service as well as installing the rat protection cover. First off, it took 3 hours. I only managed to consume a few cups of mama noddles, a couple of cans of Fanta red, a few bottles of water and a couple of cups of coffee. My other half consumed even less than that. Also, they charged me about Thb 280 to check and rotate my tires. I should have eaten the mama noodles quicker so that I could have eaten more cups. Fortunately, the servicing (checking I should say) and rat thingy was free. Also, they didn’t wash the car, claiming that they had sprayed certain chemicals (rat thingy again) and that washing the car immediately would have washed off the chemicals. They also warned me that if I miss servicing/checking dates, it would be charged. So a heads up to other BYD owners. Take the car in before the schedule time/mileage otherwise the servicing won’t be free. And go with an empty stomach.

Interesting thought. I fitted a couple of sockets with my second TOU EV meter which I sometimes use for granny charging, albeit very rarely. When PEA came to inspect the installation, they didn’t mention anything about it. Possibly at that time, abuse wasn’t an issue.

That’s because China is the leading manufacturer of EVs in the world. It’s rather advanced mathematics so understandably, not everyone gets it. It’s a bit like saying there are more Thais in Thailand than in any other country in the world.

I wonder how some are abusing it. Are they powering their house during off peak hours? If so, wouldn’t they need to have quite a large consumer unit to start off with and transfer switches and the lot? I had originally just wanted to change my 15/45 meter to a 30/100A TOU meter as I have a solar as well. But with typical Thai confusion, all I got was a 15/45A TOU which was later changed to a 15/45A TOU with feed in from my solar. So I had to get a 2nd meter for my EV charging So what I basically is charge during the day using a granny charger with excess solar during peak hours, no worries during weekends as it’s all off peak. I don’t even need to be home as I have smart plugs. If I need a big top up, then I use the wall charger for just a few hours off peak (2nd meter).

My BYD Dolphin drives much better than my Mazda 2. Instant acceleration, smoother, quieter and much more comfortable. Someone who has never sat in or driven an EV but claims an ICE drives better is spectacularly uninformed and talking nonsense.

Meaning you would discredit him personally if he believed in communism. How shallow your thinking…

I doubt I can live that long…

The UK can’t even build a HSR and they want to double their military ability in the space of 3 years? And where will the money come from? What a joke.

I would not be surprised if the Japanese government were to step in should Nissan go under. The reputational impact on Japanese auto manufacturing would have far reaching consequences. Not that it would solve anything in the long term. Like it or not, the future looks to be electric. Maybe Nissan might do like a MG lol.

I never would have guessed that a Ford Raptor is considered a light-weight nimble sports car.

That means you are doing about 300 kms or so every couple of days. That’s a lot of driving. Luckily you don’t have to worry about petrol prices.

It’s a close fight. Either way, Trump and Biden were the two worst in recent history. And Trump is almost certain to win, according to most experts. Signs of an empire in rapid decline.

Rather naive. America doesn’t wait to be asked. It acts unilaterally to try and preserve its declining hegemony.

Sorry but not true currently. I have TOU and I sell back to PEA but at the measly 2.2 baht or something like that. Better than a kick in the teeth I suppose.

How long is your daily commute?

It should, if America doesn’t meddle. That’s a big IF.

Hypocrisy at its most vile…

I considered Trump the worst President America ever had in modern history, until Biden came along. The world is now a much more dangerous place than ever before. In my opinion, it’s not Biden himself that is creating the mess but the team around him. They are the ones directing policy. Biden is just and old man being told what to do and what to say. And like any typical old folk, he screws up that part now and then. He just can’t really grasp what’s happening around the world. The conflict in Ukraine is, imo, America’s push to expand NATO eastwards to encircle and contain Russia, identical to what it’s trying to do in East Asia against China. It is also trying to expand Nato into Asia. It failed to get the response it wanted during the 2019 riots in Hkg, couldn’t provoke China into a military confrontation over Taiwan and is now using its lapdog, PH, into provoking China to retaliate. If not for America, there won’t be any tension in this region. Fortunately, most of the global majority can clearly see what’s happening. So America has gone from having its worst president to an even worse one and will most likely next have the most odious president the world has ever seen.

Failed troll attempt lol.

Yup. The same kind of arrogance and naive thinking that expanding Nato to the border will not elicit any response. Seems like some people never learn…

You remind me of that annoying 6 year old brat that doesn’t know when to stop. Pretty much all your posts have no content or substance to justify a response so…

Are you sure you’re not Gordon Chang, predicting the collapse of China next month for the past decade? I have lost count of the number of your posts predicting that Russia is about to collapse.

Really? Not even one hundred thousand dead? So why the crippling shortage of manpower as reported by an approved and credible source? Maybe eligible men and women are fleeing the country as they have no wish to engage in a proxy war..

Highest incarceration rate in the world. The most gun violence in the developed world. The highest number of registered and unregistered drug addicts in the world. The lowest life expectancy in the OECD. Nr. 1 in mass shootings (already mentioned) On average, 3 persons killed by those sworn to serve and protect them.

Nr. 1 in many other things too, none of them positive.