Andrew Dwyer

I’ll throw a random number in there: BYD 5,345

A cautionary tale: I was contacted yesterday by a poster in the U.K. who has had a Seal for 2 weeks now. For whatever reason the showroom were polishing his car and an over zealous employee had managed to remove the silver coating on the front BYD logo. ( I had mentioned earlier that the front badge is unusual in that it is almost transparent, shine a light inside can be seen outside, and I think at one time it was designed to be illuminated ). Now, because of the way the badge is mounted ( plastic welded ) the front bumper needs to be removed to repair/replace the badge, something the owner is not happy to do on a 2 week old car. The showroom seems lacking in knowledge of the car, a) to cause the damage in the first place. b) they seem to be unsure how to proceed and are giving him the run around about how they will fix it. So, a brief mention to your detailer to avoid the front badge when polishing can avoid a world of pain.

A near neighbour died last week of an aneurysm, aged 56, nice fella had a van and sold lottery outside the local 7. The old lady and myself paid a visit to the local temple for the 7 o’clock chanting. The car park was busy and a lot of people attending, we managed to secure a couple of seats near the front outside ( inside was already full ). I was just thinking that he had attracted a lot of people when I saw his photo near the refrigerated “ coffin” ……. yup !…. it wasn’t him !! Our friend was in another smaller room around the back with about 6 people!! Anyway he had ( yup, I can’t even remember his name !! ) just 4 monks but their chanting was amazing, really melodic and each one slightly offset to the others making a really hypnotic type of music. They finished their lengthy part and left the stage with their “ gifts “. Another 4 ( one was a returnee ) came on and did similar hypnotic chanting, it was like some religious Battle of the Bands !! Never seen this before. Note: not trying to diminish the effect of the obviously harrowing funerals of your local children @owl sees all just thought it of interest.

My cumulative is 13.7 kWh/100 km, my past 50 km is 12.6 kWh/100 km as I slowed when the 10% red lettering and warning popped up ( vaguely recalling the post about range disappearing rapidly below 10% ). The point of my post being where does the Dynamic range setting get its figures from ?

You seem to forget I have the Premium with more range ( 650 NEDC )

How accurate is the Dynamic range setting ?? Okay it has to be better than the NEDC I hear you say but tbh mine is not much better !! What is the criteria for the Dynamic range setting ??, is it updated instantly or every 10, 50, 100 km’s ? So, in the past I have mentally calculated the range setting v the actual mileage driven on a 210 km highway drive that I frequently undertake and under normal driving conditions ( my driving) 210 km will take 260 km off my range ( that range figure became 189 km when hit a huge stretch of stop and go ) , speed being the major factor. Yesterday, I decided to do a longer test( mainly highways with a small amount of city traffic). Starting at 100% battery and a “ range “ of 653 km i embarked upon a trip there and back and got back home with 8% battery and 47 km range left. Equating to 0-100% battery of 530 km actual driving re a 653 km guessometer reading ( around 82% accuracy ). Nothing unusual about that you say but when charging back home overnight to 100% it gives me 644 km range on the Dynamic range guessometer !! Why not 530 km ?? My conclusion is that the Dynamic range isn’t giving me the range to continue driving as per my recent trip but giving me the range possible albeit slightly adjusted ( never got below 650 km before ) but even that is confusing as the last 50 km back home were at a lesser speed when I saw the % getting low. So, what is the criteria of giving me a lower than normal 100 % range this morning ?? So in conclusion ( again ) the Dynamic range setting is not much better than the NEDC only they give random numbers to make you think it is helpful ?? I will add that this is lower than my previous 580-590 km range claim but possibly due to 4 adults + 1 kid v 2 Adults and sometimes 2 anorexic teenagers, 40° temps in Nakhon Sawan meaning higher air con settings and me showing off my acceleration/overtaking prowess at the start until berated by Mrs D !

+ 1 for Rory, a real workhorse who wanted nothing more than to play his music to an appreciative audience.

They had a good run though !!

So you think Hendrix, Clapton, SRV and the Rolling Stones should have been bigger or did you not understand the op ?

It is one of the reasons I chose Premium, I have a regular around trip of 420 km, if i stay o/night and have a bit of running around it can run to 450/480 km. But that still gets me back home with around 15 - 20 % , which is ideal for the battery conditioning charge o/night. Doing this run tomorrow with 4 adults there and back. The RWD 313 horses and 330 nm torque is more than enough for me .

Actually that is forward slash and represents 5 out of 10 and not divide at all. Apple accept that the divide by or division symbol is absent and used the foreward slash symbol as their text replacement example in Apple Support Community.

Well, to answer my own question, there isn’t one !! So I used “ text replacement “ to create a shortcut, copy the symbol and choose any letter or word combination to enable it. I chose ++ to give me the ÷ option: Apologies for the slight deviation, back to Electric Vehicles in Thailand

BYD Seal Performance ( AWD ) is rated at 580 km but I doubt anyone gets above 500 km. I have the BYD Seal Premium which is rated at 650 km, realistically I get around 580 km but I do drive conservatively. My efficiency is currently: 13.6 kWh/100 km Battery 80 kw divided by 13.6 = 5.88 x 100 = 588 km range. ( where is the divided symbol on an iPhone ? ). Seal Premium is you want range, Seal Performance if you want performance..

I use home charging but could quite easily rely solely on public charging if necessary, there are chargers at 3 malls ( Big C , Central and City Park ) which I could combine with a weekly grocery shopping trip/long lunch/cinema or just browsing. Central has 8 or 10 chargers all rarely used. Of course it depends on your car usage, battery size and charging speed/location of local chargers but I am sure a weekly visit to one of the above locations would work for me to fulfill my local needs.

Mine is 3.2 baht including VAT + FT Basic tariff 2.83 baht ( i thought it was 2.6 baht ). Could be that my TOU is a 2nd circuit meter with PEA ( EV only designated ).

Yes, i prefer to think of it this way, my Seal would have cost me a further 49.18% if bought in the U.K. and no doubt the cheapest electricity plan there couldn’t compete with my TOU meter ( 2.6 baht per unit ) here.

Toyota continues its love/hate relationship with EV’s by stepping up the schedule to produce a Hilux EV , possibly spurred on by pickup rival Isuzu preparing to reveal their EV pickup later this month.. https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/toyota-launch-all-electric-hilux-pickup-2025-fend-off-rivals/

His brown uniform ?

The U.K. is a different case altogether, identical EV’s £45,500 in the U.K., £30,500 here in Thailand

You can charge an EV with a standard socket ( no adaptor required ), most EV’s supply a charger ( known as a granny or emergency charger ) . If there is no earth wire to your socket then it is likely that the dealer supplied granny charger will not work, but you can buy a charger from Lazada ( I did this to charge at my mother in law’s house ). I charged at home with my granny charger for around a month ( until wall charger installation ) and found it sufficient and very easy.

I think what he means is the wall charger and installation plus 1 year first class insurance and free servicing. When the Dolphin was released it didn’t have the free service plan or a wall charger ( could buy for 25k with installation ) and then it all came back for free at a later date, plus I think they increased the insurance to 2 years ( not 100% sure that was the Dolphin ).

Yep !, I took a weekend break in Hua Hin and drove 110-120 kph when I could but my route, from Ayutthaya, takes me via Bangkok so at times a lot of stop/start traffic. My cumulative AEC went up to 13.5 kWh/100 km 😊 I drive fast when I can but a lot of short trips in the city, I don’t tear away from the lights and ignore those pickups that seem to want to race !! Seems like i get taunted more now in a sportier car, didn’t notice so much in my Honda Jazz !

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Presumably these promotion prices are during the Motor Show and possibly only if ordered at the show ? So that’s 126k off Dynamic 50k off Premium 100k off Performance That’s a healthy discount but there will be some healthy EV competition at the Show this time.

MG4 X Power also: https://autolifethailand.tv/official-price-mg4-x-power-ev-thailand/