JBChiangRai

A lot will change in 8 years. Somchai down the road will be fixing EV's and repairing batteries.

Anyone who thinks this only applies to EV's is deluded. ICE engines have gone through a revolution (pun intended) in the last couple of decades. They are vastly more efficient, mostly they are vastly more difficult to repair and in many cases vastly more unreliable. If I had the choice between (say) a W124 Mercedes (1990's E-class) and it's modern day equivalent, I would take the W124 every time. It's true that price lowering affects the value of older models, it's one of the prices early adopters have to pay, but I don't see technological advances affecting that in anything longer than a 3+ year depreciation period.

There is an enormous amount of Petro and Legacy vehicle manufacturer's money going into advertising the new engine that will kill all China EV's. Chief amongst these is Toyota. I read they are spending vast sums lobbying governments to postpone or remove the date at which ICE vehicles can no longer be sold. I suspect they are behind most of these announcements about mythical technology to kill off EV's. I think most people see right through it. There is no such engine/device and there never will be. Customers love their EV's https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-dc-ev-congress-biden-donation https://democracychronicles.org/toyota-lobbying-against-shift-to-electric-vehicles/ https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/30/toyota-actively-lobbying-to-slow-down-ev-revolution/

There are multiple issues with hydrogen, some of them can be fixed. What can't be fixed however, is the cost. Green Hydrogen is made by electrolysing water, 67% of the energy going in is converted to Hydrogen (33%) to oxygen). You use energy to compress it (a few percent), you use energy & wages to transport it (a few percent), you pump it into service station storage tanks (more losses) and you pump it into vehicles (a few percent). Assuming you have a really good efficient Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car, you get maybe 60% efficiency. So you end up with (say) 62% efficiency when it's in your tank and 37% overall efficiency on driving. Or you can put the energy you were going to use to electrolyse water in the first place, straight into the grid and achieve considerably more than double the efficiency when you drive your EV. However you look at it, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars are always going to cost double or treble per kilometer on fuel over an EV. Hydrogen manufacturers have come out and said that it's not for passenger cars, it will be for long distance goods transportation, buses etc. There is a further issue with Hydrogen cars, drivers don't enjoy the experience. It may take a few minutes to put the Hydrogen in, but it's not uncommon for it take 20 minutes to wait for the nozzle to de-ice so it can be removed from the car. Regarding Tesla's. I know someone makes a point of telling Farang's driving Tesla's they should know better. It's already happening in the USA and Europe and people are removing the Tesla badges and replacing them with apologies (and so they should).

If I’m hammering it, I have 36% battery left.

They don’t have the power to attempt such a maneuver, that’s the whole point of my post about why & how high performance can be used in Thailand.

My local car wash collects and delivers all the cars in our development. He drove my Seal off the road and tried to drag it back on when the concrete road was 15cm higher that the grass. I had BYD check it and they said it was only cosmetic. However there was a clunking at low speed. They ordered and fitted new suspension on that side which fixed the problem. The insurance claim was ฿42,000 of which I was asked to contribute ฿7200 as they considered the shock absorber a consumable and 50% worn. BYD repairs are not cheap.

Not at all true. Around town maybe some truth, I regularly drive between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, the road often has a line of vehicles behind a truck or bus. With 530hp I can overtake the whole line in one go, even with oncoming traffic. I couldn’t do that in a lesser car. I drive from CM to center of CR usually in around 2 hours 10 minutes. I don’t drive at high speed (speed kills) but I don’t get stuck behind anything, and joining the back of a queue of (say) 10 cars, I’m still the first past the obstacle. I would gladly have an upgrade to 1,000hp or more, and I would absolutely use it.

Easy, to quote Jack Nicholson ““I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability”

if you own a Harry’s razor, you will recognizing the picture on the box straight away, it’s not rocket science.

Don’t sign for it if it’s not perfect. Check they blew in the paint into adjacent panels, any colour discrepancy then reject it on the spot and tell them to do it again. Don’t believe any BS about it fading to same colour in a couple of weeks. My first car here was a pearlescent white top of the range Camry, slight bump and Toyota dealer repaired it, I rejected it because door was a different colour, they did it again. I bought a demonstrator high end Benz at 30% off with 700km because they had painted a door and silver shade was off. My local guy made it perfect for 1,500 baht. Cracking deal.

You’re very welcome to mine, Bank=SCB Username=dickhead Password=thatdbeu

These people who don’t like EV’s and/or worry about deep state accessing telemetry and other data remind me of the senator from the former colonies who asked the CEO of TikTok if the CCP could access his brain through his earphones if he was watching TikTok. Much like the anti-EV folks, IMHO TikTok would have the most difficult first task of (a) determining if the senator had a brain and (b) finding said brain.

I don’t care, they can track me, record my conversations and anything else they want. They will just waste their time. Customers don’t like subscription models to enable features already in the car. It causes ill will and customer annoyance. IMHO, it’s sharp practice. BMW tried it with heated seats and had to stop. It first started with IBM who shipped a mainframe computer with double the stated memory. Customer wanted to upgrade and the engineer came along and twiddled something in the back of the computer and bingo the computer had double the memory, the customer paid tens of thousands of dollars. Word got out and customers did it themselves. Someone will figure out how to turn all the disabled features on and we’ll all hack our cars. Don't view it as paying for something extra, instead view it as you’ve already paid for it to be fitted to your car but the manufacturer is saying, unless you pay me extra you can’t have it turned on. IMHO it’s nonsense.

Take a photo with you if your memory is not that good. It’s pretty obvious the ones that will fit.

Only buy insurance that is regulated by the Thai Regulator (OIC, Office of Insurance Commission).

I think you’ll find blades in both tops and BigC that fit Harry’s.

You already have the replacement for the old 30/100A meters, your meter is 5/100A.

My forecast is the talks will result in nothing. To use Trump's own words "China has all the cards" they won't soften in trade talks. It will take a few more weeks of pain in the USA for Trump's position to soften. Empty shelves, prices rising, no containers available for export, mass demonstrations. Where the <deleted> really hits the fan is if China & Japan collaborate to replace the international unit of currency (the dollar) with the Yen, collectively they own around 23% of US debt and have enough financial clout to easily do that.

I'm amazed that some people here (and in America) can't work out where this goes. America is in the process of losing its empire. Why? Because the most trusted nation on earth can no longer be trusted. I saw a tiktok type video the other day. A small business in the USA importing blank T-shirts, printing and selling them thought China would pay the tariffs. He hasn't yet understood that he will pay the tariffs. He will have to increase his prices so Americans will pay the tariffs Trade is currently down 35% and forecast to be down 65% shortly. Shelves are starting to empty. Trump thinks he can continue exporting all over the world. Where are the containers going to come from? Normally, containers for export reuse the ones for import, and so the cycle goes on. There are few available containers to export. Let's look at trade between 3 countries. Canada exports oil to the USA, now subject to tariffs. The UK imports oil from America It doesn't take a genius to work out the UK will stop buying US oil and instead buy it from Canada. You won't see this announced in the news, but it's already happening all over the world. Trading partnerships are already changing, slowly, imperceptibly. There is only one loser, the USA. Why? Because the most trusted nation on earth can no longer be trusted. Trump said he won't necessarily respond to a call under article 5 of NATO. Do you think the other NATO members will simply sit back? There will be a new alliance. Why? Because the most trusted nation on earth can no longer be trusted. BRICS members want to replace the dollar as the worldwide currency of trade. Trump has handed that to them on a plate. More than likely to be the Japanese Yen or even Euro. Why? Because the most trusted nation on earth can no longer be trusted. Everyone now is in favour of a new world order, Trump wants a new world order too. Join the dots up guys, there will be a new world order, but it's one where America is largely insignificant compared to the past. China won't blink, they don't need to blink. They have spent the last decade reducing their trade reliance with the USA and increasing it everywhere else. Guys, have you heard of Lazada, Shopee, AliExpress, Temu? Have you heard of the Belt & Road initiative? None of these are coincidental. China plans decades ahead.

Are you incapable of reading the OP's post. He said "Does anyone have experience and recommendations with quality and value oriented hospitals that are exceptional at this." He did NOT say "must be in Chiang Mai". I posted an easily commutable option in a day.

Of course they will.

There is an outfit in Chiang Rai city called Udom Medical Group (t might be Udon Medical Group). All they do is MRI, X-Ray, Mammogram, CT Scan and nothing else. You need a doctor's note to go there, but it's cheaper than the government hospital (they sent me there). I paid about 10,000 baht for an abdomen MRI.

It's wrong to attack based on nationality or religion, TBH, it shouldn't even have been reported, it's irrelevant. As I understand it, there was a sign saying please remove your shoes. We don't know whether she asked, we only have her word for that. If she did ask, we don't know whether she really did have a foot injury. If she really did have a foot injury, we don't know whether it would be exacerbated by removing her shoes. We do know she is an entitled Karen and she is contributing to giving Israeli tourists a bad rep.

Hi Carl, I though it was worth mentioning a whole house RO system. I don't have one, but my friend does.