JBChiangRai

I think this whole thread is either clickbait or one of our regular anti-EV’ers attempting to troll us.

Everything already addressed including your points…many times

Battery longevity has already been addressed elsewhere, many times. As I’m sure you’re aware if you have a really read all the EV posts. I’m not going to repeat them again, go and read the other threads, you’re just rehashing old posts.

Every point in the OP has beed addresses at least more than once. So has the issue of fires you raised, that’s been addressed to you on multiple occasions. So has your living 65km away from a charging station, you’ve already been told you don’t need any within 150km and why. You don’t need to upgrade your meter, you can even charge on a 5/15A meter, overnight will replace most if not all your use the day before. I myself charge overnight at 10amp when needed, my PEA supply is very weak. I am not going to play this game of repeating answers to the same old Luddites who regurgitate the same old ill informed points.

The motors run on 3 phase AC so a lot more than 2 terminals, but all fully sealed.

Batteries are waterproof, you can drive through a flood, but I wouldn’t recommend leaving it parked in one

Funny how nobody with an EV seems to agree with the OP it must be nice to be blissfully ignorant

Very balanced opinion - NOT

My sister and bil accompanied me to DaNang from Thailand, no visa, just rocked up, they are Australian but left Thailand on Australian passport and used British passport to enter Viet Nam. They were questioned at Check In when they mistakenly presented Australian passports.

Sorry, I haven’t.

Yes Croddy is right. I have brought in 2 of 40’ containers from China. Not only can you have duties and taxes to pay, but customs are a law unto themselves. If you upset them, expect to be asked to produce your import license.

I have sold through Lazada, they don’t give me a choice of which company to ship through, they do give me the address of the buyer, which I think is a mistake as it enables COD scams.

My room is 4m x 3m, no windows, I have a 9,000 BTU air con unit running 24/7. I have 3 grid-tied inverters and 3 hybrid inverters with LFP ESS, 2 Computer servers with 44 disks in them, also all the controller electronics for the elevator and it’s racked for wine with a few hundred bottles. Just make sure there are no electronic items under your A/C unit and have it professionally cleaned every 4-6 months (or when it leaks).

Yes 45 days I think, actually they wrote 22/11/25 so an error I think

No offence taken

I arrived Da Nang on Monday, no visa required as British. Will return again on 25th with my daughters (Thai, no visa required).

I am a member too.

There is a scam going around where the seller never ships your order through Lazada’s system and sends you a house brick direct. Ultimately Lazada cancels your order, Lazada quite rightly says you never ordered through their platform and can’t help with a refund. On another occasion, I got a free washer dryer because Flash lost the item but delivered to me later. Lazada told me to keep it.

COD is not a good idea. You have to sign and pay before opening the parcel. If it’s not what you ordered, good luck in getting your money back, because it’s not held by a trusted source, who needs you as a customer, it’s held by an intermediary. There is also a scam going round, where you sign and pay for the item only to find it’s a house brick, and let’s say you ordered it from Lazada, Lazada will tell you that you didn’t buy any products through their platform, and Lazada is correct, you have just been scammed.

I hadn’t thought of that, I have 3 of them on my grid-tied inverters so I can turn them off on meter reading day if I am not at home. With the over/under voltage control you could integrate them to only start charging on sunny days automatically and use the timer function to stop a few hours later or at (say) 4pm.

I used an over/under Chinese voltage protection device to trigger a changeover contactor. So when the sun comes out as the grid-tied voltage increases the contactor powers off sending power to the EV Charger, and cutting off again if the sun goes in. You could vary this with a Chinese timing device, so the timer starts when the charging begins and stops after a preset amount of charging. This wouldn’t work for you Bandersnatch, but it would work neatly for anyone using grid-tied inverters. Powering off when the sun goes in only works once or twice, eventually the car flags an error, but making the contactor latch with timer is a modification I think I will make. What would work for everyone is a cheap Chinese timer and a contactor, start charging and stop automatically a few hours later.

The MG4 has active shutters too. My sister and her husband are visiting me and are going to order an MG4 X-Power when they return to Australia. They have borrowed my MG4 and love it. We are currently in Vietnam, and have seen Vinfast EV’s in the shopping mall, practical but very ugly.

I have watched a few of his videos, they seem to be more scaremongering than factual. My Taycan was delivered to me in June 2021, no recall on my vehicle other than 3 air conditioning pressure sensors.

Drove mine through 45cm flood with no issues, no recall either. “shouldn’t drive it” - balderdash!

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