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Not sure it isn't also now the case. Prices of both are dropping because banks are much more reluctant to lend, which does affect secondhand market if buying from a tent. It's a buyer's market now. I recently bought a 5 year old Volvo XC40 (2L turbo AWD) for under 900K - cost new was something like 2.3 million.

Actually BYD has been making vehicles for 10+ years (buses and cars). One of the reasons i went for BYD is because they produced the EV taxis that came into service at Suvarnabhumi around 10 years ago - and were going strong for many years, and which I took from time to time.

I think the Atto claims 20-80% in something like 30 minutes. That's probably not far off real life. The max rate the Atto will charge at is just under 90 kW/h. I don't know about Sealion. But thing to bear in mind is that it doesn't really matter at the moment, in Thailand, what your max charge rate is because at a typical PTT station the chargers run I think at 150 kW max output. They can charge two cars at the same time ... but the total capacity is 150 so you often end up with much less as it's split between the two cars. DC fast charging is also not supposed to be great for battery longevity if it's the way you intend to charge on a regular basis (as opposed to home AC). Range is very variable: basically the faster you go, the quicker the battery drains. If I go to Jomtien at 100 kmh it's much better for range than going at 120 kmh. Atto is supposed to be 480 km and I think that's quite possible with car in Eco mode and driving at 80-90 kmh and avoiding any heavy acceleration. But that's really tedious and one of the pleasures of EVs is instant torque. The Atto is supposed to do 0-100 kmh in about 7 seconds; it will do it in nearer 6.5. In the 1980s that was hot hatch performance. Of course it's a lardy SUV so its general handling can politely be described as cumbersome. But for overtaking that torque is very handy. Tyre inflator - I have a heavy duty Makita one, but in part because the battery can be used with other Makita power tools. Wasn't very expensive - i think 1500 baht or something like that.

I think EVs are fantastic for daily urban driving for owners who can charge at home. Also very good for journeys to/from home of total say 300 km: in my case, Bangkok-Jomtien-Bangkok. I can do that at 120 kmh starting with a full battery and still have around 50 km range left. If you have a home charger and then buy a tyre inflator you never need to visit a petrol station again. Keeping tyres properly inflated is particularly sensible for EVs because they are heavier than equivalent size ICE vehicles. By all means buy new if re-sale isn't important. Insurance will also be more expensive than for an ICE car and may not cover 100% of battery replacement cost, the most expensive part of an EV. I've had a BYD Atto since January 2023. Been very reliable (although the cruise control sucks and I hate having a/c controlled through a touch screen). It's well built. It's also had two pretty hard hits (rear ended on expressway + driven into a concrete post); neither damaged battery. However it took a while to get some parts from China. EVs are not as convenient as ICE when it comes to short notice longer distance journeys. And I do think that good as the DC charging set up is at PTT and other filling stations, it's a pain to have to spend up to an hour charging your car. Of course you can sit in it with the a/c on while you do, and you can also sit in the car with the a/c on anywhere and not feel any guilt about having an engine idling away. When the Atto first came out you couldn't turn off, permanently, all of the 'safety features' like auto braking and lane keeping. Now you can, which is a blessing. Presumably Sealion is the same (or maybe you don't mind that stuff).

Customs or ONCB must have been tipped off, hence the photos of him checking in ... taking bag to the oversize scanner ... all part of the evidentiary trail showing that it was his bag and he checked it in, when he would have been asked 'did you pack it yourself / are you carrying anything for anyone else', to which he would have answered 'no'. So can't argue "someone must have put it in my bag after I checked it in" ...

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Must have been something like that. He says in vid they decided not to claim because they needed policies on the other 30 cars. Huh?? Sure the premiums might go up a bit but theft insurance is there to protect in case of, er, theft. Unless they weren't insuring for rental use, in which case anyone driving wouldn't be insured. And then 'Mo' does some ducking and diving, rustles up a stack of cash which he can't bank for obvious reasons - but then then the local rozzers give him a bit of paper saying "we hereby declare this phat stack isn't POC"?? Makes no sense given that presumably the only explanation of where he got the money was "my mate sold some things here and there and gave it to me".

Soon he won't have a leg to stand on ...

The interior was some sort of dark brown velour. The exterior was a sort of weird orangey brown.

Allegro was the first car I drove (my dad bought it). Appalling piece of junk. Back in the days when head restraints and passenger door mirrors were optional extras. And power steering? Pah!

That's one way to make a splash when you visit Thailand.

Far right climate change boners to one side, the main problem with Milliband's crusade for Net Zero is his stubborn refusal to just slow down a bit. 2030 is a wholly unrealistic target. As you note, we will reach net zero given time. If UK hadn't decided to close our last remaining coal-fired plants (the Tories did for Drax in 2023, Labour did for Ratcliffe - two 2GW of capacity - last year) we would have more spare south of the border base load. Sure, it's not green, but it's all particularly galling given that UK didn't build any more coal stations after mid 1980's yet China added 30GW of coal power last year (70% of the global total of new coal power). China has 1,000+ coal stations, India around 300, the USA around 200 and Indonesia around 100 - yet UK policy makers driven by Milliband cleave to an unrealistic virtue signalling time frame for UK to go Net Zero. Maybe he should go and live in his constituency (Doncaster North). for a while and see what normal people really think about it all, especially given Doncaster is one of the more deprived local authorities.

I think this is sound advice. My optometrist in UK said that simplest is best ie monofocal lens and just use reading glasses. Since no surgery has guaranteed results, he also said people who have it and understand that they may still need glasses for all distances post-surgery are less likely to be disappointed. This is a guy I've seen for 30+ years (and is well-respected within the London community of opthalmologists) so I trust his opinion. Basically go for improved clarity of vision as the goal, not 20/20 acuity at all focal distances. There's a diopter range for the surgery outcome (i.e. target 0.0 but may end up +0.5 or - 0.5 or whatever). For some people ending up slightly short-sighted works better than slightly long-sighted post surgery, particularly for near / intermediate vision. But ultimately all really depends on what is important to you / what you do in daily life.

I'm gratified to learn that my current ride qualifies as a 'supercar', based on value.

There's got to be more to this than meets the eye. The RD audited this company and found that, ten years ago, for a period of three months, the company didn't file VAT returns? The legal requirement here is to keep all paper records (invoices etc) for the past 5 years; no-one in their right mind keeps the past 10 years, because why offer RD more rope with which they can try to hang you? If the story is that the company was only live and trading during jul-Oct 2015 then it's even more bizarre. Unless - (warning: conspiracy theory alert) this is some politically driven thing trying to dig dirt and working up a tax / foreign nominee type narrative to cause trouble for someone influential locally - 'information services' = prominent local telco/broadband company with a history of Singapore investment involvement etc

Rotor striking the tail boom sounds like possible low-G mast bump / blade flap; maybe instinctive input of hard aft cyclic to counter sudden nose down pitch caused by wind shear or other strong turbulence? The weather last week or so has not been great.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/this-thing-has-killed-less-than-or-about-as-many-as-flu-would-kill-in-a-normal-year-in-kids-i-say-hardly-any-80-year-olds-their-time-to-death-in-general-is-not-that-long/ Come on, surely you can do better than citing studies published in 2020/2021/2022 - effectively from the 'Dark Ages' of scientific understanding about the disease, risk factors, treatments etc. Or have things moved on such that it's harder nowadays to find such alarmist material, hence the need to resort to ancient history? I really don't understand your apparent obsession with all this stuff - do you feel you're on a one-man mission to 'educate' the unbelievers or something like that?

Yawn. Doesn't the OP get tired of this stuff? People die from poor choices all the time. Yet why this morbid obsession with Covid? Risk of death from smoking, drinking, eating too much salt, not wearing a seatbelt etc etc etc can all be reduced/prevented through choice. Same as with Covid vaccination (or any vaccination).

As is usually the case in Thailand we'll probably never know what actually happened. Bell 212 main rotor has a lot of inertia and is semi-rigid, so even with a dual engine failure rotor RPM won't decay as fast as say an eggbeater light training helo like a Robinso R22. But reports of parts of the aircraft detaching could suggest a rotor separation. In 2021 a 212 crashed in Canada after a retaining pin failure on the main rotor hub. That led to Bell issuing service bulletins and various aviation agencies worldwide (FAA, EASA etc) issuing Emergency ADs mandating compliance with the service bulletins. On 05 July 2021, Bell Textron Inc. (Bell) issued 4 alert service bulletins covering model 204B, 205, 205B, and 212 helicopter fleets. The alerts required the review of the aircraft’s technical record to determine if any main rotor hub strap retaining pins with the serial number prefix FNFS were installed. If pins with the affected prefix were installed, they were to be replaced with pins of a different serial prefix before further flight. https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2021/a21w0045/a21w0045.html

"Short-term speculative flows" I guess meaning international investment in Thai government debt. Strong baht also helps those here who want to/need to buy dollars for overseas investment or purchases. Thailand still buying a lot of LNG on the spot markets.

It all seems to be more flip-flop decision making on the fly. Anyone who has spent any time in Thailand should be well aware that the worst thing to do is to try and comply with a newly-introduced regulation before the officials that enforce it have received clear guidance as to how to interpret and administer - which they may never get. Just consider the endless threads about the differences in interpretation of various visa regultions by different immigration offices. If they are really going to say "money bought in the same tax year as it is earned or the next year is tax free" then that's good news. Who's to say when said money was earned, especially since by implication the remittances would not need to be declared on tax return (if you file one). The wrinkle I see is 'what does this means for income earned in the past and then remitted': currently if earned before 1 January 2024 it is not taxable. That to me is more of a concern. However I still feel best approach is do nothing with officialdom until directly asked to.

Actually this says "A cloth mask worn over a surgical mask gives 95% protection against Covid" - surely they should be pushing a properly fitted N95 mask - and also advising against removal of facial hair in order to provide a better fit. So I'm guessing this is an ancient history poster from the terror years of 2020/2021 ...

On a more general point - what's happened to the member (the bloke with the masked dog avatar) who used to bombard AN and these Covid threads with reams of stats and doom and gloom projections?

Schools closing classes? Madness. If Thailand cared more about its people it would focus on actually educating its children, rather than pushing a narrative of fear and the importance of simply doing what your 'elders and betters' tell you to do, because 'they know better'.

All very rum - total loss of pressure in both the normal and emergency brake systems? Looks like they were parked up on the West Apron. Surprised there isn't any video 'out in the wild' yet.