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That's Laos.

There are dual standards here. Often, the very people who don't learn Thai are the ones who insist that immigrants to their own home country learn their home language.

I was told that there is no public access to the National Park on kph Chang itself....except for the waterfalls where you pay the NP fee. This would explain why people aren't charged to enter the island unlike Koh Samed. This is of concern as there is continual encroachment into the park by hikers. Google as I might, I still can't find a map of the land area covered by the national park.

Looks like PBS have taken down the article.

Icant see they can close the whole island but you can't have a resort ina national park. So what does the quote from the papers mean?. I can't contact anyone on the island....can anyone else?

I must say it isn't clear what is and what isn't National Park on Samui.

Some people are claiming the island not to be closed at all...just the National Park parts...... so why would the tourist facilities be told.....I think some of the hoteliers might get their <deleted> together and make an announcement

The OP states there are 4 kinds of electric cars....there's no stopping them now. Not sure 4 kinds is satisfactory.... but industry certainly seems to have put its weight behind the whole thing. So who thinks they should, will or can be stopped?

I get the feeling you don't know what "subsidy" means.

That would explain a lot!

Totally agree, people are completely unaware of the decades of subsidies the motor industry and private vehicles have had. Like the tobacco industry, there are vested interests who are spending fotunes promulgating pseudoscience denying MmCc and promoting fossil fuels. And it's not hard to spit those gullible enough to swallow their nonsense.

What on earth are you on about? A mix of the obvious and pure nonsense with a touch of generalisation for good measure. You have to laugh at people who think it is relevant to roll out cliches like "green people" where have they been for the last 30 years? Marooned on an oil rig by the sound of it.

Elsewhere the industry seems to allow Chinese in at 0%, Japan up to certain numbers at 20%, they then jump to 80%. Korea is 40% abd EU 80%. As you say their are FTAs involved here, and an EU one may come in to play later. There are also some government subsidies available for buyers. I think the big issue will be Thailands in motor industry. This is about 10th in the world and has been mega-protected fir decades. I imagine they will want to be producing whole vehicles shortly. They already have fledgling components. To this end they will probably encourage existing manufacturers to swith over. This would help Japan by-pass any duties. I would also think that the EU will continue TKDs but with EVs instead. As the home market for ICES will end by mid century, one would expect the alternatives to be up and running by then. Toyota are the big unknown as they are not so keen on EVs and backing hydrogen power. This is produced from coal in Japan, but one wonders about the rest of the world

Whereas the import duties taxes and fees on an ICE into Thailand amount to 300%. As far as I can make out, the amount on an electric import comes to 80%.

He actually doesn't seem to be able to articulate what, if anything, he believes. He has not drawn a si gle co clusion. All he dies is imply he "doesn't like" EVs. After that he just gsinsays. He doesn't even understand his in references. I don't think he reads further than the titles.

You really don't follow the argument.

You really don't follow the argument. A huge amount of pollution in cities comes from vehicle emissions....if you remove that away from the cities it reduces the pollution in the cities. How you deal with central power generation is a different matter that you clearly haven't considered either You quote statistics as if they are static, but as shown in your previous posts you really don't get what is happening. You raise points that people have thought about and worked out solutions for years ago and then don't seem to understand the "bleedin' obvious" to use a John Cleese quote. You still given us no idea what you are suggesting is going to happen. All you are doing is naively gainsaying.... to what purpose you don't seem to know. Why don't you take time off and cone up with a concise argument against EVs. At the moment you are behaving like a toddler who doesn't what her oatmeal.

EVs will make a major contribution to the reduction of urban air pollution in cities like BKk.

So now you are reduced to sealioning? Sp tell us, what do you think will gapped? The collapse of private transport?

Except you won't need to "dp it yourself' as they are far more reliable that ICES.

2 things seem to arise out of your posts. Firstly you simply don't like EVs and secondly you don't know anything about them

I'm not dure ekectric cars are the best dupion....hydrogen is being backed by Toyota. However one thing is sure is that "market forces" is interpreted by capitalists never were and never will be the solution. We live in a society that makes joi t decisions and that, based on science not the condtruct of money will be the best way of finding the best possible solution.

People seem to be basing their arguments by cherry-picking premises that suit their argument rather than rational evidence. Since 1991, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by over 97%. Global average battery prices fell a further 6% from 2020 to 2021, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that by 2024, the cost to produce an EV battery will be roughly $100 per kWh. $100 per kWh is widely believed to be the point at which EVs will be cheaper to produce than petrol or diesel cars. But it won’t stop there. BNEF believes that by 2030, the cost to produce an EV battery could be as low as $74 per kWh - Bloomberg.

You don't seem to realise how facile your comment is. What are you trying to imply? Nothing? A totally pointless post?

You don't seem to realise how facile your comment is. What are you trying to imply? Nothing? A totally pointless post?