JBChiangRai

If they'll try it once, they will do it again, it's safer to deport & ban them.

It's not an "either or"

What price are they now?

Well bugger me

Far better to say ALL overseas arrivals regardless of nationality must wear face masks for 10 days or so

Pattaya is a world class sex tourist destination and an open sewer for families traveling.

Probably has an Oil Worker behind the wheel, Rednecks all!

Interesting video. Most tyre shops will simply match the spec of the tyre and not offer anything specifically for an EV, however, if the rating is the same, it's perfectly fine. I will jump 2 sizes up on width when I replace my Seal Performance rear tyres and if I can get foam filled then I want that too. I think it's more important you get a soft compound on a high-performance car, and the penalty is tyre wear. I had a Honda NSX in the UK (Acura NSX in the US), it came with Yokohama tyres which were very soft and needed replacing in 5,000 miles. I thought there was something wrong with the car, but the dealer assured me that was normal for that car. I replaced them with equivalent Toyo tires which were cheaper and generally lasted me about 12,000 miles. As a bonus they had a warranty, I did puncture the sidewall on one and they replaced it just charging me for the tread worn. I couldn't notice any difference in handling. The NSX was considered a supercar with a 0-100kmhr of 5.3s, all aluminium engine & body. I had to replace the clutch twice in 70,000 miles. I would book a break to Florida and pick up the Acura clutch which was less than half the price, about $1,200 and the saving paid for my holiday.

We did it again yesterday in BigC because she thought her eyes had got worse, actually one was slightly better. There was no charge, there never is in locations with one or more opticians.

It can fail at any time, but I think a good SoH report will be more important to people than the worry it will fail when it will have happened so few times. An ICE can seize up and be economically unrepairable at any time too but it happens so infrequently, people still buy them outside warranty. Who knows, maybe we will see 3rd party warranties become available on batteries?

Typically 8 year old ICE cars have a residual value of about 25%. With a battery SoH report showing 90% or more, I can't see any reason why a BEV would be a lot lower than that, and if it were half that, it wouldn't be the end of the world. I am sure people buying older BEV's will want a SoH report and the price will be closely linked to that.

Don't, I like rice not potatoes!

The cheap bikes use Lead Acid batteries which rarely last a year. KhunLA is right, by a decent bike which is likely to cost you 50-70,000 THB.

Funny you should say that, disaster struck this week. PEA had a planned outage on Monday to trim trees and I was in Vietnam until Friday. Monday afternoon my live-in maid called me to say the power was back for everyone else but my house. I tried to troubleshoot from Vietnam but to no avail. My neighbours took my freezer contents and strew a few extensions across the hedge to run my daughters bedroom fridge and for my maid and her daughter to charge a mobile phone. Wednesday night the lights went out at my neighbours house (they are also my tenant). It has a 24 volt lighting circuit for all the ceiling mounted downlights and table lamps that use XLR plugs and sockets so you can't accidentally blow them up plugging into mains sockets. They still had power but it sounded like the 24v PSU had failed. Friday 15:30 I got home and eventually diagnosed that one of my 3 inverters had failed, it was behaving as if the 48v battery wasn't connected. I bypassed all the inverters bringing power back on but now I have no backup in the event of a power cut. Maybe the inverter has a large fuse inside, I will get to checking it when I am in the mood. My neighbour's lights turned out to be an SSR (Solid State Relay) that had failed. There is a voltage sensing circuit to protect Lead-Acid batteries from being discharged too much in a power failure that triggers the SSR. If the house loses power a contactor permanently on, opens and closes the circuit to the batteries giving 2 or 3 hours of lighting. The batteries were replaced with 4 LFP motorbike batteries with built in BMS so the protection circuit is no longer needed so I bypassed the SSR whilst I order another. A cautionary note on SSR's, they fail after some years, it's a known issue with them, it's probably best to massively oversize them or replace them in planned maintenance every 2 years. Mine was rated at 40A and probably rarely exceeds 25A. Another house I build failed after 4 or 5 years. I may well be selling 2 large 48v LFP batteries of 14.4kWhr each if anyone is interested... Possibly a couple of 5.5kW hybrid inverters...

My lady friend in her 70's from our former colonies has ordered the BYD Atto 410 and she lives off grid with solar insufficient for charging. We have a BYD Dealer in town and she intends to go there once a week for free coffee & breakfast and fast charge up there. She goes once a week to Sizzler in Central Mall and will slow charge top-up whilst shopping & dining. We meet up every Tuesday for lunch on the drag and always park in Wiangcome Hotel which is 40 baht an hour for parking or free if you use one of their slow chargers at about 50 baht per hour. She expects she won't need to have the free BYD breakfast and fast DC charge every week with her lifestyle.

Porsche had a bad batch of air conditioning/heat pump pressure sensors. The entire system was outsourced OEM and each car needed 3. My Porsche EV failed twice, between first and 2nd failures they issued a recall to replace all 3 at first service. Unfortunately, the service interval is 2 years.

I am not surprised. I was somewhat suspicious of the last motorshow results, first 2 days BYD outsold Toyota then the cheating started...

Patience is a virtue Vinny I hope you get yours real soon!

Understood, I hope I am still here let alone driving at 79.

He would know all this if he really had an electric car.

I have seen lots of 10 year old BYD's, MG EV's etc Oh, hang on, You are right because they haven't been in existence 10 years yet. My Bad.

Porsche electric cars are not crap, they are superbly engineered. What they are is expensive and some would say overpriced. I expect new battery prices to drop substantially, this year 50% alone. Within 10 years probably 90%. Remeber a battery will probably last 18-20 years.

Sorry, I don't agree, they are not disposable items.

Is there a reason why you think it should be almost nothing? That's not what happening with second hand EV's now.

I suggest you shut up or think very carefully before you say anything. You're coming over as an uneducated idiot.