JBChiangRai

Maybe. If there is one country that does have its act together currently, it's Thailand.

You don't really need them in shopping malls, you need fast DC chargers on major routes and the odd one or two in towns. Hotels are already fitting AC chargers which is also necessary. Almost every charger on major routes are fast DC and there are a plethora of them currently. We need Condo buildings to get their act together, this must be putting a lot of people off buying EV's.

I did briefly consider buying one for emergencies when Covid struck. If it had proven more contagious, you wouldn't have been able to get hold of one at any price.

I tend to agree, it's often used as an excuse to vastly inflate their prices.

Yes, it's kind of a shame because it was useful to see who they were. Who are we missing that hasn't posted yet, I can think of @Bandersnatch are there any more?

Within the barracks compounds there are usually several ultra-luxurious mansions replete with maids, butlers et al, these are reserved for senior generals and their families. Anyone who thinks this isn't what Thaksin wouldn't be given as his "barracks" doesn't know Thailand very well.

Thanks for that, very useful

I am particularly interested in the breakdown of the different variants in each model. My dealer told me that with the Seal most Thais buy the Premium, it seems that us farangs prefer the performance, so far anyway.

You can now post your Dolphin, Crossy very kindly amended the poll options for me

Married 3 times? Don’t you know the definition of stupidity?

This what happens when you post before coffee

That’s not enough to avoid the scam. It works like this, you order something expensive, the seller marks it being packed for shipping. The seller ships something cheap to you directly with an official looking Lazada label, it’s delivered COD, the seller never actually ships anything through the Lazada official channel and the sale times out and is automatically canceled by Lazada. If you’re on the ball, you can avoid this scam, but if you have multiple orders being delivered regularly and even worse multiple household members ordering then you need to devise a system to safeguard you. Or you never ship COD which is the rule in my household. It’s the easiest and safest solution.

I only pay by link to my bank account debit card I think so I don't know. There are too many people in this household to use COD, (checking every order would be a nightmare).

I get refunds often, never into a wallet.

Correct, that is one of the COD scams. The OP was expecting something but what arrived did not come from Lazada, the shipper sent it direct and ultimately Lazada cancel the sale because the shipper never shipped it.

There was a short period when Lazada were putting refunds in wallets, they had to stop doing that.

Correct, using COD is dangerous. Or don't use COD and you don't need to do anything, no whiteboards in your living room, nothing, Lazada refunds are by the payment method you originally used, they have to be to comply with AML, something amiss if your funds appeared in a wallet to didn't use to make the payment.

You sir, are a troll

You are like a broken record

The OP is not telling us how he stayed "Several months" this year between January and June without a visa. He either came and went a few times or did border bounces, we don't know what he did last year either. The OP likely told the IO he had family here, heightening the IO's suspicion he is not a tourist. The IO was right to reject him. It's all about the right visa for the purpose. The right visa is not free.

Flawed logic. You don't look at an exponential curve and say it's about to plateau, that's fiction. IMHO, when the subsidies disappear, the prices will remain the same, I wouldn't rule out a drop in price next year too.

The OP said he has already visited Thailand for several months this year and that he had no visa for that. This kind of behaviour is not normal for tourists, the visa system is designed for people like this. Further, he probably told the IO he has family here, again a negative factor in whether or not he is a genuine tourist. Admission is at the IO's discretion, if you have a history of what appear to be border bounces, the IO may well ruin your trip. The IO does not have to follow the rules and regulations, he has absolute discretion, yes you can appeal, but people rarely know that.

I think any impact strong enough to damage an EV battery pack would probably be strong enough to write off an ICE vehicle.

I think there is a lesson here on how you visit Thailand. You can't just wander in and out without a proper visa, normal tourists don't do that. There are other more appropriate visa's for people who want to come and go regularly, if you are coming and going regularly without a proper visa, the IO has discretion to ruin your trip. Follow the system and do what's expected of you.

Imagine a piece of cheese fell off the moon and smashed into the road and you drove over it and damaged your battery pack, definitely a risk these darn EV's,