JBChiangRai

Sorry I disagree with your experts, I don't see anything wrong with either of those placements, it would come to usage zones & furniture placement, but all things being equal, I would still place them at either end. I think fitting over 100 A/C units in houses we have built makes me a specialist too. I try to avoid putting units over tall windows, there's usually insufficient space when you allow for curtains.

It's a long room, I would fit 2 of 12,000 BTU Inverter Air Cons, one at each end. Our business has fitted dozens of air cons of many different makes, our favourite is TCL sourced from Lazada and fitted by our own contractor. The only ones we don't like are LG (noisy) and Daikin (go yellow and not properly designed to stop geckos destroying logic boards). I would try and do something outside to stop the sun hitting your single thickness block walls and windows. Your walls are going to absorb heat and radiate it into the room all afternoon/evening.

Our company designs and builds moo baan here, I think like a lawyer

It's far better to involve the authorities now, they will handle it for you because the law has been broken and you don't need to do anything once they are involved, start with your village headman, if no joy talk to Tessaban then land office. We are involved in building housing estates. There is a similar law to what you describe, IIRC it's 12 years and you have to pay tax on it for those years too, you may or may not need a dwelling on it too. I don't have first hand experience, we have never done it.

Sorry but you are wrong, the authorities will take it up with your neighbour if they encroach on your land with soil because your neighbour is breaking the law. If you build on the boundary and your neighbour's pile up soil that is no longer criminal and if that soil then destroys your wall then you yourself have to handle it through a time consuming, expensive & risky civil action. Always build your wall set back a little bit from the boundary.

You still own that land from your wall to the boundary, you don't lose it. You don't lose it if you don't build a wall either.

The difference is it is illegal to pile dirt on your land, so if you set the wall back a few inches they have to build their own retaining wall.

None at all

The illuminati?

Source for the goose is source for the gander?

Then they cannot encroach on your land legally, if they have filled touching your wall ask your village headman, land office or tessaban to intervene and have it removed, they must build their own retaining wall.

Your wall should have been set back from your boundary by a few inches, then they cannot encroach on your land legally. Never build a wall ON the boundary.

I think there is something wrong with your profitability figures, in Q3 2023 BYD Auto's gross margin surged to 25.7%, figures aren't out for Q4 but they are expected to take a hit. Tesla reported a gross margin of 17.6% for the three months ended December 2023. I couldn't find one article with both gross margins, I got the figures from the links below. BYD are reported to have a significantly higher GM than Tesla and Tesla cannot win in a price war. Tesla Vs. BYD: TSLA Dives On Earnings, 'Lower' Growth Warning; New EV King Misses | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com) Tesla gross margin falls on price cuts, shares tank (msn.com) Even if Toyota can develop a Hydrogen engine that is 50% efficient, it will. still be around 5 times more expensive per kilometer than putting the electricity you use to make hydrogen straight in a BEV, and that is assuming automotive hydrogen doesn't attract and fuel duty. I agree with you on solid state batteries, and town cars may even go Sodium Ion.

I was once a passenger in a BMW 518i heading the motorway in the UK when it died, timing belt went, valves all bent. He hadn’t serviced from new, 120,000 miles on it. I would be money that Toyota’s new engine is nothing more than an ICE designed to burn hydrogen instead of petrol, in other words, nothing more than a slightly modified CNG engine. Toyota are doing everything they can to spread FUD about EV’s, they recognize the threat to their business.

No it's passenger & commercial vehicles only.

I am not sure which version I am on, but it does spell Torque correctly.

The Compound Annual Growth Rate in China is expected to be 17.5% per year over the next 5 years. China expects sales of 22 million EV's this year. You have to remember treble digit percentage growth is not sustainable as the market matures. What's important to note is whether the market is growing, static or declining. China's market is growing and expected to do so over the next 5 years. China EV Market - Size, Growth & Industry Share (mordorintelligence.com) EV's are expected to get significantly cheaper this year as battery prices drop by a third this year. Interestingly, guess which batteries go in Toyota's bZ4x? if you guessed BYD you would be right. Toyota has no capacity to go EV.

Agreed, exponential is not the right word, ever increasing market share is a better description. Your posts about EV, confirm you are ignorant on this subject. I am absolutely certain I am far better informed than you are, and I stand by my opinion. You are the one with blinkers. All auto manufacturers will develop Hydrogen vehicles for markets where Electric is unsuitable and for some commercial vehicles. They may also develop them due to lack of availability of raw materials for BEV's. What they won't do is replace BEV for reasons I explained in my earlier post (cost) as already seen via Pib's post above about Hydrogen prices in California. Whilst 14 times more expensive is largely due to scarcity and lack of economies of scale, it will always be at least 5 times more expensive per kilometer for a Hydrogen car compared to a BEV. Market dynamics will dictate the rest, where a BEV is available, which do you want, the car that's cheap to run or the one that costs 5 times more? see above

I didn't answer your question on tariffs in Thailand. Yes they do apply tariff's on imported vehicles, but less so on Chinese EV's if you comply with their option of making vehicles here for both the domestic market and export. They are not trying to penalise China's EV's, they are being very enlightened in my opinion, they want to protect their vehicle manufacturing base and not lose it to other Asian countries. It's going to be interesting to see what happens in the EU and UK.

Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics. according to The Global Electric Vehicle Market In 2023 – Virta global EV sales are up 40% in 2023 (a prediction made late in the year). Deloitte are forecasting in excess of 40% of vehicle sales will be Ev's by 2030, compare that with Toyoda who was wrong before. They forecast that 4 years ago and interestingly, their forecast for 2023 was bang on. Electric vehicle trends | Deloitte Insights Goldman Sachs are forecasting 50% of all vehicle sales by 2035 will be EV's. Toyota I believe are wrong and scaremongering to protect their legacy business. The EU is expected to be at 100% of new vehicle sales being EV by then. I think all BEV's have an artificial noise that fades out at 20-30km/h, you can turn it off on some vehicles like BYD on others you can't. The Prius doesn't use an artificial engine noise, they use alternating low and high tones to warn pedestrians it's there because it is silent.

It's going to be a very long time before we know who is right, you or me. Most countries (Thailand included) are replacing their fossil generation with EV with renewables as fast as they can. I am not sure about China. I have had a few classic cars, I would convert them to EV in a heartbeat if I still had them and if I was in a country with a thriving EV conversion process, like the UK. I've had too many problems with classic car engines. The challenge is charging facilities for a lot of the population and for commercial vehicles, though I do think they may go Hydrogen too, let's see how well Tesla's semi sells, if and when it gets to market. I am certain EV's are here to stay, but I do see a multi-tier market, BEV's, Hydrogen fuel cells, Hydrogen ICE, biopetrol (this is Porsche's preferred route for the 911 model only, all other models they are committed to BEV). BEV's success is going to be entirely down to how well they compare in price to ICEV, if all we get are offerings like Toyota's bZ4x then they will fail. If we get Chinese and Tesla competing with the Chinese, then they will succeed.

Firstly, the US is a special case because they don’t have the Chinese EV’s there to any significant representation. They are also applying tariff’s to skew the market. It’s more representational to look at countries that don’t apply tariffs, eg Thailand. Growth here is exponential, of course it will tail off with market saturation and availability, eg pickup trucks. Regarding anti-EV propaganda, I don‘t have anything other than anecdotal evidence (posts about Toyota having revolutionary technology that will destroy the EV industry when it’s nothing more than the changes made to a petrol engine to enable it to run on CNG et al). I was careful to say it’s my humble opinion. We are seeing websites like lagradaonline pop up and in the course of their first week around 10 anti-EV articles, someone with motive is behind it. It was the type of thing Russia and Cambridge Analytics did in the trump election Regarding Nio, they are an unusual case because they can be classed more of a startup then an established manufacturer, their sales volumes are tiny. It reminds me of fake it till you make it. BYD are immensely profitable with much higher margins than Tesla mostly because they manufacture most of what they need in house eg semiconductors and plastics.

I am not sure that is true. I accept their margins are artificially high because of state subsidies.

Because IMHO Toyota are behind a lot of the Anti-EV propaganda, EV’s catch fire, EV’s have range anxiety, EV’s can’t get wet etc etc Their Chairman (CEO until he was fired) is on an anti-EV crusade. They are trying to obfuscate all the reasons why EV sales volumes are growing exponentially, eg people like them, they like the acceleration, they like the silence, they like charging at home etc. I don’t think you can underestimate the threat legacy automakers face.

This guy is a dinosaur and his position has changed from EV’s will fail to EV’s will have a maximum 30% market share. IMHO he is still wrong. Toyota are crapping themselves because their manufacturing cost of an EV is higher than the price Chinese EV’s are being retailed. It’s even worse because Tesla and Chinese EV manufacturers have sorted out their supply chains for batteries and lithium and there’s insufficient left to support them.