JBChiangRai

I'll take you last point first, In the past 6 years my family here in Thailand have had 4 PHEV/EV's, a Mercedes Benz, a Porsche Taycan, an MGEP+, an MG4 and I have an MG Cyberster on order. I chose to give the only mandated hours for a certain class of vehicle which is 4.5 hours. The advice to all motorists in Highway Code Rule 91, is much stricter, to take a 15 minute break every 2 hours. It is against the law in the UK to drink alcohol and drive or smoke cannabis and drive. The answer invariably given to the courts is "40+ years of driving and no accidents". There is no excuse acceptable. By your own admission you are a regular cannabis user and I suspect you still drive. The advice by His Majesty's Gov't in the UK, is you can drive OR you can smoke Cannabis. If you want to smoke Cannabis then surrender your licence. This advice is given because you can still fail a drug wipe & associated blood test the following day and the risk of an accident increases. Thailand is in its infancy regarding legislation around this but that does not give you licence to get stoned and go out and drive and perhaps wipe out a loved member of someone's family. All part of the plan... Cannabis induced Paranoia? More Cannabis induced Paranoia?

He went for premium in Arctic Blue with Blue Interior

More colours in the UK, like a camo green and nardo grey.

I am fairly sure Israel will annex the Northern part of the Gaza strip. It more than halves their border with Gaza for a start and it punishes Hamas and that punishment like the proverbial rolls downhill to the Palestinians. What cemented it for me, was Israel bombing the hospital, I am fairly sure they did do that, adio analysis seems to suggest it came from Israel and it had to go for annexation to go ahead.

Is Thailand only getting the Black interior? My brother in law ordered one in Australia with a blue interior.

I got 90% of the price I paid new for a 2 year old EV Another member here advertised and sold his EV within an hour and got more than he paid. Let's talk Suzuki shall we? I paid 350k for a 10 month old Suzuki Ciaz RS, approximately 50% depreciation in 10 months.

My comment went over your head?

With a bit of luck you might get Transman with his Celery!

I think it's fair to accept that there are 2 leaders in EV technology, one is Tesla, the other is China. I doubt Tesla will keep up. People won't want aging designs, Models S,3,X,Y they want a new design every few years. IMHO, China is already overtaking Tesla. Some reviewers are already saying that BYD's Seal is a superior car to Tesla's 3. It's certainly far better finished and equipped. And I think it's universally accepted that the Lucid Air is a superior car to Tesla's S as is The Porsche Taycan & Audi equivalent.

I am 100% sure they import components from China, it's straight forward economics

Get back under your bridge!

It's substantially bigger than the Mazda, substantially faster, and will be substantially more expensive. It's also substantially better.

I have had lots of Jags, one of which was the XJS V12, I had lots of XJ6's, XJ12's in saloon & coupe form and a Daimler Double Six Van den Plas. In my early 20's I used to deal in them. The 12 cylinder engine has a problem with oil pressure. You have to check the pressure when the engine is hot, if it's low it's a very expensive engine rebuild. I think they were superb cars and I loved driving them, healthy margin in dealing in them too. I would love another with an EV conversion.

It's a properly sorted EV Sports Car to rival the new Porsche Boxter EV, massive horsepower and a 3.2 second dash to 100kmhr. Formula 1 Engineer set up the suspension too. The reviews are all stunning. The only downside is the battery chemistry, being NMC it's not as suited to Thailand's heat as LFP and will last half as long, but still the life of the car. The PEA Grid is able to cope adequately. EV's catch fire 10x less often than ICE cars. They keep their value extremely well. I think that is most of the usual nonsense dealt with in advance.

Correct! Especially when I post facts & figures disputing their nonsense thoughts

I wouldn't buy one if it was! (I want it to work)

Coming to Thailand next year, I put my deposit down last year

As a self-confessed regular stoner, I am sure you have already surrendered your licence right? Please tell us you don't condone drug driving?

more nonsense

You can't buy "taste" And to be honest, "taste" is in short supply in Thailand, where else would you see pink & blue floor tiles in the same room!

If all that were true, they wouldn't be selling so well, but hang on, they are selling so well !!! And the grid is not collapsing, all that's collapsing is the nonsense you posted

Nonsense

The 4.5 hour rule? You cannot drive for longer than 4.5 hours without taking a break of at least 45 minutes. Taking this break causes a fresh 4.5 hour period of drive to begin. Note – See the rules on breaks to ensure you do not break the 4.5 hour rule. www.driverhours.co.uk I usually drink my coffee over about 15 minutes, probably takes another 5 minutes to order and them to prepare. Not particularly unusual. Probably want a pee too, 20-25 minutes is probably average.

Let's take them one at a time. no infrastructure (see the chart below), No generation capacity (no shortage of electricity, charging EV's uses hardly any grid capacity even with 100% EV's Electricity Grids Can Handle Electric Vehicles Easily – They Just Need Proper Management (forbes.com)) Vehicles unreliable fire hazard (EV's are 10 times less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles and 130 times less likely to catch fire than Hybrid vehicles (Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs | Electrek stats from NTSB, BTS, Recall & AutoInsuranceEZ all bear this out) Take forever to charge and not go very far (almost all EV's can be driven for 4 hours/380km before needing a charge which is around the safe driving limit without stopping, they take typically as long as it takes you to order and drink a coffee or stretch your legs to top up). Weigh more than ICE cars hence less efficient (BEV cars do weigh more, but they are far more efficient, not least because the extra energy used in bringing the heavier car up to speed is recuperated when slowing down. Poor resale value (not true in Thailand, one of our esteemed members has just sold his MG EV on the same day he posted it and got more for it than he expected. I sold an EV after 2 years and lost only 10% depreciation). Other systems, lets first discount fusion, it's nuclear and will always be a very large fixed plant and the electricity it produces will always be expensive product and not applicable to cars. Hydrogen & fuel cells (both suffer from the same problem, hydrogen has to be produced from electrolysis, it's only 30% efficient, add in storage, transportation, selling costs of forecourts etc and a BEV will always be 3 times cheaper per km. That's not to say we may see them sold alongside BEV's as a cheaper to buy option because much more expensive to run). There is not a single accurate point in that post, other than saying they are heavier.

What utter nonsense - go out and educate yourself!