JBChiangRai

Very little of the water you can buy is anything other than RO water, all the cheap Thai brands are RO. I grant you Evian etc are spring water but they are massively more expensive.

All the bottled water you buy in shops is RO water. I have fitted then in all our houses, carrying big bottles of water is not something you want to be doing.

We had a situation in Pattaya once when a foreigner sold his foreign quota condo to another foreigner, the land office checked the allocation and discovered more than 49% was registered as foreign owned and refused to do the transfer. There were 14 units in the building, 7 of them foreign owned, 7 Thai company owned. We managed to resolve it because at first glance they all looked to be identical size, but one of the Thai company owned units had a balcony over the shop unit and had a few more m2 on the chanote, with that pointed out to the land office they did the transfer a day or two later.

Then you would guess wrong. https://moneylowdown.com/economy/china-bolsters-defence-of-overseas-ev-sales-against-us-eu-counterpunches/

Since 1/1/2023 China has not subsidised the manufacture or sale of any EV's. However, what they have done is invested in the value chain in regions outside China eg Europe, Aftrca, the Middle East & Asia. Their investment aims to lower production costs and support the expansion of Chinese EV's in those markets. They are moving production into Europe, South America and Asia. In Finland alone they have invested over $2B in battery production ventures. So yes, I am sure some of their investment has found it's way to this park. China bolsters defence of overseas EV sales against US, EU counterpunches – Money Lowdown

Transferring chanote's is entirely at the land offices discretion. People have to be 20 years old to hold a chanote unencumbered, the exception being when the parent dies and it passes from parent to child. The land office MIGHT allow a chanote to be transferred to someone under 20, but it is at their discretion, with no appeal process if they refuse. If a lawyer went along to the transfer at the land office and told them that the reason was because the parent was dying you might be in with a chance. If your child holds dual nationality, say Australian then the transfer could be to the child as a foreigner and if foreign quota is available (it makes no difference if the condo was held in foreign quota before), your child could be registered as foreign owner in foreign quota. They would likely ask if she is a Thai citizen and if answered honestly, they may refuse to do the transfer as a foreigner. The next issue is the Australian passport, did she enter Thailand on it? (a requirement), does she have leave to stay? Did she transfer the funds from overseas? all these have to be correct.

It could be an EV, it's just unlikely I can't speak for KhunLA but I posted the statistics because it's important for anyone considering an EV not to be dissuaded by inaccurate myths.

13 times more likely to be an ICEV than an EV 139 times more likely to be an HEV than an EV.

Tesla have a standard CCS2 plug arrangement in Thailand, no magic dock adapter is needed here.

It could be more permanent, it all depends on what America, the EU and UK do. We have a situation in Thailand where the government says "You can buy what you want, we want you to buy EV, we don't care where it's made". I deliberately left off the subsidies bit because the subsidised price here is the same as the unsubsidised price in Australia, for BYD anyway. The automakers are using the subsidies to increase profits here which they need to invest in assembly plants to get the subsidies. The other countries I mentioned say "We want you to buy EV's and you can buy any EV you want so long as it costs the same as locally made cars, that means we'll tax the $hit out of Chinese EV's" In this scenario, EV's cost about 50% more. I bought a BYD Seal, it costs about the same as a Toyota Camry or a Honda Accord and is in the same segment. If it cost 50% more, I would not have bought it. We are at a fork in the road. Tax the $.hit out of Chinese EV's and demand will slump, allow free trade and the world will buy Chinese EV's and the legacy automakers who are not in a niche position cannot compete because nobody wants to pay 50% more for an EV. Niche players like BMW, Mercedes & Porsche will still sell EV's simply because they are niche players. If we look at the rationale behind protectionist policies carefully, it crumbles. They say China is subsidising all their EV's sold overseas, but is it really? If that were true then the cars sold overseas would be cheaper than the domestic Chinese market, but that's not true. They sell overseas for almost 50% more than they do in China before taxes and tariffs. China can sell their cars cheaply, at a profit for 3 reasons. Firstly, China has the resources, all the rare earths needed, secondly, they have a cheap & motivated workforce prepared to work hard & long hours, and lastly, they are far more efficient, in the case of BYD almost everything that goes into the car is made by BYD (seats, plastics, semiconductors, lights, motors etc). If we contrast that with RoW (rest of world) automakers), they have to buy their rare earths and batteries from China, their workforces are expensive, lazy and unmotivated, and lastly, they buy in headlights, tail lights, air conditioning systems, seats, door trims, window glass, wheels, tyres, electronics, motors, inverters, all the plastics etc. They just press the steel bodywork, paint it and assemble all the third party products needed to assemble the car. Thailand will continue to go EV because it's a no-brainer if an EV costs the same as an ICE car. One test drive is enough to convince the hardest of sceptics that they drive far superior to an ICE car. Gradually people are understanding that we do have the charging infrastructure here and they don't need charging stations within 150km of their homes. If I lived in the EU, UK or USA I would not be happy having to pay 50% more for a locally made EV because countries & automakers didn't sort out their supply chains for rare earths/batteries years ago when it was clear what is coming, or because their workforces are lazy, unmotivated & overpaid, or because automakers have taken the easy route of buying in everything and assembling it and hundreds of OEM suppliers are profiting out of every sale.

China Observer has featured before on these pages, they are very anti CCP. I only watched the first 4 minutes, but they lost me when one of the clips was repeated but running backwards and another clip showed Mercedes Benz cars being loaded/unloaded in the port.

@ExpatOilWorker does seem to be mellowing, he's almost "normal", it must be the holiday he's enjoying. Or maybe he test drove an EV and has seen the light?

MG EP/ES looks to be a better car, almost double the power although a bigger battery on the e6

Tranny Sam, it has a certain ring to it.

People with an avatar like yours Sam, shouldn't throw stones!

Well said Comrade

I don't think anyone is that principled, except Greta maybe

The MG4 is an excellent car.

I find that illogical

That is exactly what is happening in the UK currently. The more your car pollutes, the higher the tax. It can be as high as 125,000 baht for some vehicles in the UK

I suspect when the incentives cease the prices may stay the same. In any event, EV’s are coming down in price because the battery prices are expected to halve this year. I don’t ever perceive a scenario where EV drivers are penalized over ICE drivers. That would be self defeating to most governments.

Quite the opposite until EV adoption is unstoppable. The governments "WANT" people to switch to EV

The article says "confusion & paranoia", sounds more like cannabis than anything else.

Probably the range available on full charge will be the best indicator. When you come to sell at a few years old, potential buyers will want to see that. I expect that to happen in the UK/EU but a few years away, I doubt we will see it in Thailand in the next 10-20 years. It's not really possible to tax the fuel for EV's because we charge at home, government practice will be to increase the taxes on fuel and polluting vehicles to encourage people to switch to EV, it's likely to be both fuel tax and annual road tax. They will gradually make it uneconomical to run an ICE vehicle.

Does your OBD device give you battery SoH?