JBChiangRai

You're talking nonsense. BYD is pushing out all over the world.

Even in a rural area, I'd still buy an EV. I don't need a charging station nearer than 250km from my home. There are lots of apps. someone will post them I'm sure, I'm about to have a piano lesson. The map you posted is wrong, it should be showing dozens on that route and hundreds nearby.

It was always intended to be medical use, but entrepreneurs saw that it wasn’t illegal to sell it for recreational use and filled market demand. Speaking to CNN in an interview ahead of the move, Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he expected legal cannabis production to boost the economy but cautioned that recreational use of the drug remains illegal. “It’s a no,” said Anutin, who is also a deputy prime minister. “We still have regulations under the law that control the consumption, smoking or use of cannabis products in non-productive ways.” https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/09/asia/thailand-cannabis-legal-minister-interview-intl-hnk

Many times mororbikes have pulled out of a side road without looking. You tend to spot them because you look at their heads and if they don’t turn towards you to check if the road is clear you can expect the worst. The nearest I have had to a bump was when going around a 90° blind left hand bend, a car coming the other way cut the corner and I had to go on the verge. I always take that corner slow because it’s not the first time I’ve seen that.

Anutin was quite clear that recreational use was not permitted and he said that as they made cannabis legal. If you set up a shop for recreational use of cannabis then you were an idiot and chancing your arm. How many of the shops are solely supplying recreational use? 99% ? 100% ? None of them are due any compensation because whilst they didn’t break the law they did break the rules. So now as Burgo stated, you just go in and say you have a headache and you’ll come out with a prescription and a bag of weed. All that will really happen is big dispensaries will thrive and the smaller ones will close

I am allowed to have one of those by my partner, but I’m reminded of something I was told when I first moved here “There’s always a bill…..”

There's not much inside the boxes, some sensing circuits and a contactor. I wouldn't be tempted to spend too much on one, just keep it cheap and simple.

I've seen it on TikTok, but I suspect it was a fake and clickbait. More likely to happen if you're in a condo I would think.

Perfect for a teenager, or the wife.

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I recommend you check them out on Trustpilot, start with the 1* reviews. A few months ago they had an appalling reputation with a score of 2.x then all of a sudden there were a flood of 5* reviews from all over the world, they're still coming in.

I've seen one in black, very sexy machine.

You want a 22Kw 3 phase charger, that will charge single phase at 7Kw too. Don't be tempted to buy an 11Kw 3 phase charger as it will only charge at 3.6Kw on single phase. Is it going to be in a place where a neighbour might come and charge his car whilst you're away? If so, get one with an RFID card to begin charging. If you're getting an electrician to fit it and there's any chance you might want to move house and take it with you, then I would also install a red industrial 32 amp plug and socket where you're putting the charger and put the plug on the charger. There are loads of 22Kw wall boxes on Lazada.

I think MG had the old Chinese mentality when they launched here. Their cars were junk and unreliable. They’ve definitely got their act together in the last few years. Their EV’s and later ICE cars are as good as anyones. I bought a TCL tv 17 years ago, it overheated constantly. Today they are a superb product. Their air cons are every bit as good as Mitsubishi and Daikin. I’ve installed well over a hundred in our property business. I’ve never had a failure on a TCL unit. China has learned the hard way they have to compete on quality and not just price. Today MG make superb products. We have had 2 MG EV’s, 1 BYD & 1 German EV. The only car with problems was the German car that had to be trailer to Bangkok twice for repair.

I see a lot of comments here that are outdated, a lot of comments that are from not understanding how EV’s operate and some comments that are outright wrong. Let’s go through them. EV’s are unreliable. For the last couple of years around 1 in 5 new cars sold has been an EV. Simply go and take a look at the service area in a BYD dealer. You’ll find it mostly empty, talk to the engineers there. You will find all they are doing is rotating tyres, changing cabin HEPA filters and checking fluid levels. There’s almost nothing else to do. Brakes are rarely used so don’t need replacing in under 100-200,000 km. Thailand doesn’t have a good charging infrastructure in the sticks. The charging infrastructure in Thailand is nothing short of fantastic. It’s there where you need it, many on highways and a few in towns. You don’t need ANY charging stations within 150-250km of your house. That said, I bet there’s one within 50km of your house. You charge at home, possible buy even cheap rate electric where is costs as little as ฿230 for 500km, you drive 200km and then come home and charge again at home. I live in a condo, I can’t charge at home. I have a lady friend closer to 80 than 70 who can’t charge at home. She goes to any of half a dozen PTT’s around Chiang Rai and charges there while she has a coffee in Amazon. It takes her no more than 30 minutes. I was staying at a hotel in Pattaya last week with a View Talay condo nearby. I saw several EV’s parked there every day, the same cars. If they can do it, so can anyone. EV’s depreciate rapidly. It’s true they sometimes depreciate more in the first year, but they’re on a par with ICE cars within 2, sometimes 3 years. I’m in the market for a one year old BYD Dolphin for my youngest daughter, I can’t find one that’s depreciated more than a Toyota or Honda, if you find one, please send me the details. EV manufacturers will all go bust. Yes, some of the smaller ones might, but BYD, Geely and its brands and SAIC (MG) won’t, they continue growing at a substantial rate. I think it more likely that Toyota, Honda, Nissan and others will go the way of Kodak. The first of those will be Nissan. You don’t like EV’s, they have no soul. Talk to any EV owner and see what they think. I’m a petrol head and I’ve been fortunate enough from the age of 31 to buy any car I wanted. I love the way my BYD Seal Performance drives. BYD describe it as a Sports Saloon. It has an almost perfect weight distribution and a slight rear bias on power distribution. It’s as fun as any exotic car I’ve owned and as quiet as any luxury car I’ve owned. What is not to love? Insurance is very high. Sometimes it is, but if you use Roojai it’s likely to be under ฿10,000 as long as you don’t have anyone younger than 25 on your policy. They catch fire. Government statistics show EV’s are less likely to catch fire than an ICE car. Between 10 and 130 times less likely. They cost a lot to repair. I think that depends on the damage. EV’s show a high degree of integration, much more so than ICE cars. To replace a motor you’re probably replacing the Drive Gears, Inverter, Power Module and a few other things. However, my BYD has an 8 year warranty so I’m not worried. EV’s and their batteries won’t last as long as an ICE car. This has just been disproven by experts, EV’s are expected to outlast an ICE equivalent. https://www.ontarioautocenter.com/news/do-electric-cars-last-longer-than-gas-cars/#:~:text=Will an EV Last Longer,edge in long-term ownership. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/01/evs-evolved-rapidly-now-last-just-as-long-and-are-more-reliable-than-ices/#:~:text=This mileage not only matches,(187%2C000 km) on average. https://www.current-news.co.uk/research-shows-evs-last-as-long-as-ice-vehicles/#:~:text=Image%3A Chuttersnap via Unsplash.,internal combustion engines (ICE).

MG is consistently in the top few cars sold each month, especially with their EV's, I don't see them abandoning Thailand anytime soon.

Thailand has an excellent charging infrastructure.

It is the ultimate sanction if you p?ss someone important off or commit some egregious offence. A general attack on ownership this way is unlikely, although it's more likely to happen in a specific area rather than everywhere. They are also more likely to come for your home on your death, especially if some bigwig wants it, or you made the mistake of leaving it to someone in your will.

What makes you think my comment was directed at you? I didn't quote your post so by default I was referring to the OP.

I have two of the TCL model you mention, one in Chiang Rai, the other in Chiang Mai. It takes a long time to dry clothes and if you're only going to use the dryer function occasionally, it's fine. Last month we bought an LG Dual inverter, heat pump dryer which my maid uses every day. It's much cheaper to run and dries a lot quicker, so now in Chiang Rai we've stopped using the dryer function. We also have lots of TCL aircons and 2 TCL TV's all excellent. I did have a TCL TV in Pattaya about 17 years ago, it was a disaster, but today they are an excellent brand.

I recently got an apology from Roojai. I complained that my spare car's renewal quote with 5 years no claims discount was the same as a new fictitious customer I created. Eventually, I got an apology over the fact they don't really have No Claims Discounts. I like Roojai a lot, but their integrity concerns me.

They don’t have an office in Bangkok. If they did, they would have to be regulated here, so they will avoid that like the plague. They use an independent third party here, Assist International Services (AIS) who act as an agent with some services. If I remember correctly, AIS is owned by a guy who was struck-off and forbidden to be a company director for a few years because he was a naughty boy.

I have bought several pairs of the attached photo for 1,200 baht each from GMEI Optical Store on AliExpress. All titanium memory frames, hi-index photochromic lenses, gold frame going brown, silver frame going black, lenses going pink, going purple and going blue in the sun. Progressive lenses add up to another 1,500 baht. You don’t need to pay Thai prices.

We've been away for 11 days, mostly in Pattaya, a nostalgia trip. There's been a lot of rain in that time, about 6" judging from a lake here. We don't have to worry about flooding here, we're on a lake with a 12" overflow pipe to a canal. In the last 13 years, we've only reached the overflow pipe once and that was last year. We're 6" away already so I reckon it's 50/50 Chiang Rai will flood again this year.

You can come and do mine next