JBChiangRai

Kentuck Yuk Chicken or it might be Know Your Customer

Knocking 300k THB off the price of a 1.7m THB car does 2 things, it p?ss?s off the previous buyers whose cars immediately depreciate and it destroys trust in the brand from both new & old customers after the initial rush of new buyers. It is a fantastic spec for the price. How does @Gweiloman feel? I think you bought one? I am mildy p?ss?ed off that BYD knocked 50k THB off my 1.6m THB car but majorly p?ss?d off that MG knocked 100k THB off my 969k THB car.

Precisely, Francis Bourgeois

Trainspotting the activity of watching trains and writing down the numbers that each railway engine has. Enthusiasts.

Train spotting is a popular pastime of the anally retentive spreadsheet addicted.

Do you go train spotting, too?

You’re getting the hang of it. Welcome to reality, do you wish you’d taken the blue pill,

The pink flamingo lives underground, no lunar missions have gone underground, so is there is zero evidence it doesn’t exist. A lot of the gods we have invented have been debunked by evidence.

Because there are so many that we have invented in our history. Every culture had one or more gods to explain the misunderstood, from storms to menstruation. There is zero evidence any of them exists. Is there a one particular god or groups of gods you like to believe exists? I am equally as certain that there is no pink flamingo living on the moon. But I can’t prove a negative.

it could be. It may not be. It depends.

There’s a pink flamingo living on the moon.

A good way to look at it is like this, if the motor in the EV is rated at 150 kW, that means that it will draw 150 kW approximately from the battery under full power, if you’re charging at about half or two-thirds of that, then you’re fine.

The onus of proof is on the believer. If I told you my garden had invisible faeries the onus of proof would be on me to prove it did, not on you to prove it did not.

Yes, all 12,000 of them, lowercase g because they’re all fictitious.

Except Burger King …. Food of the gods

perhaps the performance moniker means it will be dual motor and all-wheel-drive?

I did my first long journey in my Seal yesterday, Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai. I really enjoyed the drive. Should the HUD show navigation options like next turn etc? Mine doesn’t.

The highway code has two types of rules, you should not, and you must not, the former is advisory, whereas the latter is an offense, if you break it. Interestingly, the section on charging cables is not mandatory, it is a should not rather than a must not.

I think the issue with charging cables on the ground is probably legal as there is unlikely to be legislation in place currently. There are probably laws about obstructing the kings highway (a footpath is legally a highway), but a cable flat to the ground or even under a rubber safety device would be difficult to argue it’s an obstruction. If somebody tripped over it then there could be a civil action and possibly a criminal action, but without the accident I suspect it’s a grey area.

We are already seeing insurance companies refuse to pay when the driver is inebriated. ECU’s store lots of information, I can see an issue coming if you had a bad accident after traveling a long distance without a break, especially if there was a fatality involved. The issue is the ICE is already inefficient at idle and recovering from that means a high optimum speed to counteract the inbuilt wasted energy of the engine. The EV doesn’t have the same constraints. Both cars have wind resistance and tyre rolling resistance as their main source of wasted energy related to speed. It’s not valid to say the ICE has a higher optimum speed as if that is a good thing, the ICE is only 25% efficient typically whereas the EV is massively more efficient.

EV’s are no different to ICE vehicles, wind resistance and aerodynamically take their toll. The major difference is at very low speed or stationary, the IVE vehicle is burning a lot of fuel at (typically) 25% efficiency to keep the air conditioning, power steering and brakes operating, Wind the speed up and they both use incremental energy identically.

You can probably do it, but you leave yourself open to a claim, the insurance scammers will love it!

My last car was a Porsche Taycan, but it had more hp than that, current car is indeed a BYD. 90% of the car at 16% of the price.

What you describe is currently a non-issue in Thailand. We have abundant chargers and relatively few EV’s. Unfortunately, you could well be right in future years, let’s hope not.

Petrol performance cars are too slow and noisy for me, I will stick with my 530hp EV.