mistral53

You still live in the ICE age - literally and figuratively speaking........ the motors in an electric car could only run if you were on jacks

Update ll: I did the remote pre-conditioning again today, this time I started with AC first, and seat ventilation second - lo and behold, the iTAC was off as we drove off........go figure.

Tesla is an interesting case study: It seems like the M3 Standard is cannibalizing other M3 sales - cant feel all that brilliant for their income statement...... Moreover, it seems that the Zeekr 7X is having the Model Y for lunch - for good reasons. The abysmal model selection that is offered by Tesla is quickly becoming their Achilles heel.

Update: In my Seal, there is no correlation between using the remote aircon with seat ventilation, and iTac. We had the car at the detailer for a wash with claybar, and before picking it up I activated the AC & seat twice for 15 minutes. The iTac stayed on. Parameters: car locked, drive mode 'normal', battery at 71%, outside temp 32C, AC set to 25C.

Interesting. I just checked and iTac was in fact off - but I don't know yet whether it was in fact due to the remote AC function. I certainly don't want to drive around with the iTAC off. I am not sure I would agree with your conclusion that the power is reduced - I quite often take a quick glance when I floor it, and I usually see the 390kW peak reading, albeit very briefly.

My take and what I will do when we leave: Charge to 100%, use the app to turn on seat ventilation and A/C for 20 minutes every 3rd. This will make sure that the 12V battery gets charged or is being kept charged as the car will not go into prolonged deep-sleep. After you return in a few months, the battery will still be above 50%, albeit this is a function of how hard and long you run the A/C. (Just make sure the car is parked in area where it wont ingest leaves etc into the hot-coil/radiator.) @Bandersnatch - yupper, I have two of those LVTopSun bricks, too - the prices are great, the BMS seems to work without a hitch.

We finally made it to test drive the Zeekr 7X AWD - the overarching conclusion is that the BYD SL7 AWD is an insane value. Superficially, the 7X is in an other league due to its pricing, but the SL7 is so close - and in some ways even better - that the 7X is hard to justify for 50% more money. Some of the details that surprised me and we are spoiled with the SL7: there is no readout of inside/outside air quality no cornering lights no door jamb rubber seals single pane glass (although double pane is probably overrated, the 7X does seem to have thicker glass) fewer physical buttons for essential functions no NFC unlocking, needs app to be opened? (could be a misunderstanding) driver/passenger seat belts not height adjustable I am not implying that the SL7 is on par with the 7X - it also falls short in several relevant aspects like air-suspension, ADAS etc., and compared to other peers, ticks all the boxes (e.g. I will not buy a car without HUD anymore, which eliminates the IM6, the Avatr 07, the G6 etc) - but I am not going to buy 2 identical cars. I will wait another 4 weeks to check what models might come to Thailand - if the BYD SL8 does not make it, the 7X is it. Unrelated side note: wifey was driving around in BKK and I got her doing this! what a champ!

I have been a Seal owner for almost 2.5 years and was utterly unaware of this pretty unsightly functional flaw: (from the FB BYD Seal Australia group) 'Thanks to Ves Aä and Andrew App for discovering and highlighting that if you remotely turn on your AC, the shutters behind the front grill will remain closed, and thus AC performance will be poor in some situations (High or Low ambient Temperatures). The interesting workaround is to turn on Seat Ventilation at the same time. The shutters will then open, thus exposing the front radiator/condenser to the airflow created by the fans behind it. EDIT: The reason behind the Seat Ventilation opening the shutters is that the Remote AC, just turns on the HVAC system with the remainder of the vehicle being still off. Seat Ventilation actually powers up the entire vehicle in a locked state. (Eg Infotainment system is on, DRL are on, mirrors are out, etc) - So make sure you haven't got the radio turned up to 11 🙂' I have often wondered why the Seal sounds like an jet engine at take off and the cooling is so poor - this is the reason and a stop-gap solution to work around, hopefully BYD will fix this with an OTA, BTW - I checked the same remote cooling setting on the SL7 - the shutters immediately open full tilt.

Of course the case can be made that for men with larger than average space requirement, going commando is a blessing since there is no restrictions and space confinements that can be quite uncomfortable.

So far, BYD and all other Chinese car manufacturers are concentrating on their home market - it's their big pie. The software the Chinese customers enjoy is leaps and bounds above the crumbs we in the ROW are fed with - case in point: The BYD Seal had full-dash and HUD navigation map display from day one way back in 2023, ROW still does not have that (the SL7 now has it partially) Not all of this is BYD's failing - the highly fragmented data protection laws really make aggressive cloud based software solutions very hard for Chinese companies, and it seems to me it is an underhanded roadblock only the Chinese are faced with. However, there is hope - BYD has decided to push hard into the export in 2026, projecting 1 million units sold ROW. Last but not least - BYD marketing is an enigma, and maybe even a whiff of arrogance.

The most significant shift in my opinion is that they went from a FWD to a RWD - that is a major redesign. It also makes it possible to go to AWD for the high power version: 'The new vehicle will be also available with all-wheel drive for 330 kW (443 hp) and 580 Nm. Its zero-to-hundred acceleration time is 3.9 seconds. The BYD Atto 3 Evo 4WD will offer up to 510 km of range, thanks to the mentioned 74.88 kWh pack. Another benefit of the new model is a five-link independent rear suspension.'

......not to install solar! I might not chose these panels for reasons of origin, but it is a sizzling hot deal for starters. It also sounds like they were sold out at this branch

What happened here? front-loading before the price increase as these are presumably 2025 sales? I bet BYD would love to have this kind of monthly sales every month

Machine transleted on FB: DOLPHIN STD 2 years. 4Months: 381,000 KM. - Not attached to the rock-proof grill. -Charge DC only, never charge AC. SOH is now 86.85 % -Small battery 12 V. that was attached from the factory to change the part. 320,000 km. (Use only for 2 years and 10 days) -Before the warranty expires. Claim rack + Yoi+Left side shock. -Change 4 shocks at 300,000 km. -Change the airblower fan at 320,000 km. -After the warranty is over, still go to the center as usual. **Whoever says which one works, try to get used car info. Nearby jobs compared to SOH. Let’s see. There are many. A car with over 300,000 km. **

Not an MG, but for the Chinese bad durability proof camp, nonetheless.......NOT! 3 Years, 3months - 404,800 km and already needs new ball joints and steering knuckles?

Just 'WOW' on so many levels.......... if this does not spell doom for quite a few Japanese car companies, I don't know what does.

That is a very strange problem - is that PEA voltage problem a momentary thing? or for how long does it stay in the under voltage level? Alas - the inverter re-start should not be a function of the grid voltage and you should have power on the back-up circuits, at least that is how it works on my hybrid Deye inverter. I do have the Feyree wallbox, but only hooked up one phase to get the 7 kW output the Seal can take, hence the dynamic load balancing does not function. Cant help there, either.

Yeah........the problem with Chinese carmakers and the head-spinning progress of technology. Zeekr has already updated the 7X with more power, slightly bigger battery and addressed some of the criticism - especially about noise by changing the side windows to double pane, amongst other things - after a little over 12 months the car has been on sale in China.........head spinning tempo of innovation. Not surprisingly, I read quite a few comments of other potential 7X buyers that are now back to sitting on the fence. 'To be - or not to be?' buy now? or wait? I looked at the Avatr 07 at the show, and while it checks a lot of boxes, it also misses several 'must have' of my list - e.g. HUD, air-suspension, soft close doors, 4-pot calipers at the front etc. - but the Avatr lineup definitely looks bad ass and is backed by Huawei for the ADAS suite. Last but not least - what is BYD doing with the Tang L? Available in Australia for several months already - no word about their marketing intentions for Thailand. The Tang L does tick some of the boxes, and potentially could offer even more - to wit, we have a BYD dealer 10 km from where we live - but is still lagging compared to the 7X in some.

By your 'gazillion' count you are implying it is perfectly OK to have charging problems and just live and love it - don't you think that is a rather lame argument for the guy who drives a pick-up truck and pulls-in-out of a gas station in 5 minutes and never thinks twice where to get his next fill? By my experience and what I think of EV's (and I have 2 of them!) - this will be a marketing niche at best, but never replace ICE. I am not gloating about this admission, it makes me cringe, but I am not an over simplistic ideologue preaching what really is a failure in Thailand (and you suggest in many other countries) - the way I see it, mainstream adaptation depends on overwhelming benefits for the average Joe, or he will stay with what is convenient. The hype is loosing it's shine - just look at Tesla - and once that shine is off, the cliff looks deep. Mind you, this is for the ROW - China is a different case, they are mostly already living in 2050 and EREV is where they are heading, best charging network in the world notwithstanding - think about that for a second! As for the marketing niche: If it were not for the free electrons I am harvesting to essentially convert photons into kinetic energy, I wouldn't even be near an EV, and that is true for quite a few EV owners, but that is a mighty tiny, albeit powerful niche.

Thailand is simply not yet ready for EV prime-time, social media is replete with charging horror stories over the holidays, including from wife's trip upcountry to visit her parents. And then there is this - advertised at 400 kW, delivering 10% of rated output........ if all this does not change fast, EV glory in Thailand will fizzle out faster than a wet spark (pun intended) on a Musk(et).

Yes - that is a head scratcher, indeed.

HA!

Aren't the BYD Dolphins made in Thailand?

From this chain: https://www.tyreplus.co.th/en - and you are right, they don't list them on their very poor web presence (which is quite normal for Thai companies) I should mention that they had to order the tires, took about a week - but that has probably more to do with the fact that I did not go with the OEM size. As I mentioned, I had a quite extensive chat with different AI's - ChatGPT even gave me locations, prices etc. I would be very surprised if Otani being a Thai company is not on the menu in most of the chain stores. As a side note........... you really are still using Google?

Two more reasons I went with the Otani: - Otani tires are made locally by a Thai company, so I expect a good value as probably most of the supply chain is also local - think Thai rubber, furthermore, supporting local manufacturers gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling - tires are probably fairly recent manufacture, in this case week 25, 2025 And yes - the K1000 is an EV specific tire