JBChiangRai

Yes I can see the problem. EV sales are accelerating and it's a disaster (for the EV haters). Nothing is going wrong! The customers are joyously happy! They can charge everywhere! They pay 20-25% of the cost for fuel they paid for ICE and some even pay nothing! They have 1% of the moving parts of ICE so need very little servicing! They don't break down! They don't catch fire! They go hundreds of kilometers before needing recharging! Charging only takes the time it takes to have a coffee! They only take an average of 4 kWhrs of electricity per day which the power grid can EASILY absorb. What the video said is correct in some countries and specifically in some places in countries, those places specifically being high speed charging stations on motorways which do need feeding with a high current supply. That requires local grid changes back to the very high voltage grid.

I thought I was probably complimenting them

Yes, that's right. I do get your humour btw 🙂

Nonsense. There are probably less than 10 EV haters that post here, you being one of them. Once a claim is refuted and accepted with source posted, I am not going back over >200 pages to find it for you, you probably read it anyway are just being obtuse. Your own link provided enough evidence that those EV's are from bankrupt ride share companies.

My humour went over your head.

Maybe some of the other 78% don't understand the question, because they are intellectually challenged like (insert EV haters names here).

Why do you bother? I don't understand your motivation for hating EV's, have you ever driven one?

I wonder if anyone can even repair stainless steel bodies.

There was an article about battery degradation some time back, they analysed a bunch of Tesla's and said 18+ years was normal, the article is in Electric Vehicles in Thailand or EV's vs ICE the debate thread somewhere. The manufacturer of the EV I sold because of price concerns also sell a lot of ICE sports cars and all that manufacturer's models are ruinously expensive to service & repair, and all the tyres are ludicrously expensive for that brand, likewise insurance. None of these reasons were in any way due to it being an EV.

You aren't Transam's "wife" perchance?

A few points. You have to look at mistakes the contractor makes from his point of view. How expensive/difficult is it for him to rectify the mistakes? Are you nit-picking or does it make a major difference? If it'/s going to cost him a lot of time/mney, he will walk away every time. Penalties need to be reasonable and should never tip the contractor into a loss-making situation or he will walk away. Most contractors will always make sure the money they are holding covers the part of the contract they are currently doing. Even though the contract may say it's payments on completing a particular stage, the upfront deposit payment will be in the contractors calculations so he is never experiencing a loss. I would advise against legal action, it will take up to 7 years and you'll end up with a legal bill over a million baht and you may lose anyway, don't expect the contractor to tell the truth to a judge or the judge to follow the law. We build houses and make moo baans as a business. On one of the houses, the contractor put the kitchen door in the wrong place. By the time I noticed, it was a big job to move it and I wasn't going to put the contractor thought that when I could redesign the fitted kitchen.

I think that's true of all nations, but so far it's only the superpowers that are able to do anything about it, and the real masters at this are the US.

If you bought on an authorised Thai exchange, you can download a tax report identfying the date & purchase price & amount and so establish a buy price for profitability/tax calculation later. No tax due here. However, if you sold on an overseas and brought the money here then the normal rules for money transfers apply. Bed & Breakfasting in Malaysia (selling/buying back) does not change anything in Thailand. If you sell or trade your crypto on a Thai exchange that you bought overseas then you crystallise a tax liability on the full amount of the trade if you are tax resident here. If you traded it for (say) USDT, then you crystallise a tax liability on the full amount of the trade but you establish a buy price on the (say) USDT, for a future liability based on the profit of when you sell the (say) USDT. The Revenue Department here are not stupid, they have thought this through. They know people might sell stablecoin here having converted it overseas, that's why they tax on the full value of a trade here on ANY crypto not acquired on an authorised Thai exchange. Your best approach is to convert to FIAT overseas and remit that here as savings if you can justify that, or trade/sell/B&B it here but make sure you spend less than 180 days here in the year that you make the trade here, so you are not tax resident that year.

You can use your Thai driving licence in the UK for up to 6 months, I do it with rental companies there every couple of years. I can't speak for America, but probably.

The link is one of these 204 pages, I'm not going to waste time looking for stuff previously posted when your own link says they are from bankrupt ride share app companies.

Teething problems. China will add more charging stations. I went with my lady friend & her new MG4 X-Power to a PTT station with an EV plus charger and we spent about 10 minutes downloading the app, loading a credit card, working out how it operated. Then we disconnected and tried it as if it were a repeat and we were charging within two minutes we went to the Amazon next-door. We had a cup of coffee and when we came back, it was at 95%. Maybe 20 minutes tops.

And yet… Chinese EV’s have a higher satisfaction rate than ICE in China https://cnevpost.com/2023/02/08/chinese-consumer-satisfaction-with-nevs-exceeds-fuel-vehicles/

As I said in my first post, it was false because they were actually vehicles from companies that went bankrupt. You can’t abandon something when you go bankrupt, you’re no longer the owner. We’ve been over and debunked this article or other versions of it last year, it’s a fake story. Chinese EV owners are NOT abandoning them, they love their EV’s.

Battery life is expected to be 18 to 20 years, and they typically say they should outlast the vehicle. I sold the first EV because it was two years old, coming out of warranty, and a very expensive car and got out whilst there was still a long waiting list. It was ruinously expensive if it broke. A set of four tires was over ฿100,000 too. I sold the second EV, an MG EP+ because I bought a BYD Seal Performance on a spur of the moment and passed down my MG4 to my daughter and sold her MG EP+

And a Swedish car brand name to sell a Chinese ride. Let’s not even go with BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Tesla & VW who all make cars in China.

I left some screws on the drive and did have a slow puncture, B-Quik repair punctures for free. The current values are proving you wrong, I have sold 2 secondhand EV’s and another member here has sold one, they are holding up as well or better than ICE.

You don’t understand EV’s, you need very few charging stations in cities near your home. We will never need or have acres of charging stations.

yes your own link suggests it’s a fake story and if I may quote This time, the cars were likely deserted after the ride-hailing companies that owned them failed, or because they were about to become obsolete

There is normal income tax paid on the entire amount of crypto sold if acquired on a non-Thai exchange, or, on the profit if you bought it on an authorized Thai exchange. assuming you lived here for 180 days in that tax year.

Do you still not have any doubts about Toyota? I think there is an abundance of evidence they are trying to sabotage uptake of EV’s. From saying EV’s will be superseded by Hydrogen to promising better battery technology down the road. I don’t have the evidence but there’s an abundance of anecdotal evidence about other organizations in Japan singing the same tune from a nuclear power station synthesizing Hydrogen to Japanese news agencies like Nikkei. Then we have posts showing an ICE modified to run on Hydrogen with the tagline “Toyota invents a Hydrogen engine that will kill off EV’s”. And only this month a car running on liquid hydrogen that has to store it at -253° C which is totally impractical for anything other than an hour or two. They have made a catalogue of errors in the past from investing millions (maybe billions) in HFCEV, announcing a decade ago they would have a solid state battery in production by now. Even their hybrids are still using Nickel Metal Hydride batteries. If they had a decision to make in the last decade, it seems they always made the wrong one. If you can’t compete then obfuscate, spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. It’s a technique IBM have mastered and it’s what I believe Toyota are doing. Toyota’s problem is not that they can’t make BEV’s, it’s that they can’t make them economically and sell them competitively. They need to slow down or preferably stop the uptake of cheap high quality Chinese EV’s or they risk becoming insignificant.