JBChiangRai

Noone can deny diesel is more convenient to fill up on long trips, but it really isn't that difficult to top up a battery EV. If you're making one long trip every 6-12 months, I wouldn't hesitate to choose a BEV. I have made one long trip in the last 3 years, to a party in Kamphaeng Phet. I stopped for a coffee and noticed a fast DC Charger so tried it out, 11 minutes later with +25% more capacity, I was on the road again to KP. At the motel in KP, they had a complimentary AC Charger, I charged up overnight to 100% to drive back the next day. My fuel cost for the 1,100km trip was 80 baht (I do have solar btw). I was anxious about making long trips until I made that trip. On the way back I made a point of slowing down and checking out highway 1's service areas. Generally, there was a fast DC Charger every 30-40km, mostly empty and none without capacity for another car. I drive every fortnight or so to Chiang Mai, about 180km, it uses less than half the battery on the MG4. 8 months ago, there was nowhere enroute with fast DC Chargers, now I counted 4 and a lot of coffee shops have AC Chargers. Chiang Mai itself has dozen's, possibly hundred's of fast DC Chargers.

I would say a PEA bill of 4-5k per month is the sweet spot for a 6Kw Solar system (I mean Kw not KwHr, probably 30 KwHr per day average) if you're careful it should cost you 120-140k.

Actually, there are 2 very, very regular posters here who drive Porsche Taycan's, both of them also have an MG EV. One of them probably prefers to remain anonymous.

If you install a grid-tied system and choose your supplier/installer carefully, typical payback can be as short as 3 years. On my previous house I paid 120k THB for a 6 Kw inverter and 22 panels (8.6 Kw) 4 years ago, ROI was running at 3 years. On my current house I paid 500k THB for 18 Kw grid-tied inverters, 16.5 Kw UPS inverters, 28.8 KwHrs of LiFePo4 batteries and 54 panels totaling 21.6 Kw, ROI on this system is looking like 5 years. At just short of 2 years I have generated 191k THB in power. In terms of useful life, they reckon solar panels will lose 20% of their capacity every 25 years.

Nicely put.

I'm not sure whether it has changed, but Japanese manufacturers had to pay (I think) 20% import duty for BEV's whereas Chinese paid nothing. If that's still the case, it's going to be difficult for the Japanese to gain market share with "late to market" and therefore less well developed BEV's compared to the cheaper Chinese. I would take a BYD ATTO 3 over the bZ4X every time.

It comes down to the law and practicality. The law says that the shop owner cannot acquire a better title to the phone than the person who sold it to him, who had no title. Practicality, the police are unlikely to want to get involved, you need to negotiate with the shop owner, he doesn't want to be accused of handling stolen property, he is out of pocket to the tune of 2,500 baht, a fair solution he will probably accept is if you pay him the 2,500 baht by putting it to him in a way that flatters him and makes him feel good.

It's very difficult once you have owned an EV to go back to a smelly, noisy, sluggish, unresponsive, vibrating ICE vehicle.

You're missing the point with Tesla. The model 3 is about 50% more here than China. Tesla is outsold in China to a significant extent by BYD. There have been 6 price reductions on Tesla in the USA since they launched here but no price reductions here (yet). I wouldn't consider buying a Tesla here unless they gave me 2 years price protection and they are not going to do that. Buy a Tesla here and you're going to get burned. And we haven't even debated that the model 3 & Y do not have a premium cabin and are plagued with poor quality control issues.

I would change that statement a little "I believe the very overpriced Tesla & European car brands will have to normalize their prices with the many coming premium Chinese car models from China entering Thailand." Whilst I am sure Tesla will drop their prices massively, I am less certain about other premium brands like Audi, Porsche, BMW & Mercedes who target a different kind of buyer.

Been to another Asian country whilst awaiting my new passport, no problems at all.

Ask them to ship THAILAND special line, the freight is a bit more expensive, but it includes duty and it works out massively cheaper

So you like two hours do you, Charlie, you must have a lot of stamina!!!

I ordered this body kit from my local MG dealer, 13,500 baht installed. I haven't ordered new wheels and tyres though.

Air Asia is my least favourite airline, but sometimes there's little choice. you also have to be darn sure you will fly as getting a refund is nigh on impossible. I have a friend still awaiting his promised refund from early Covid days. You get better prices for Air Asia with Booking.com than their own website/app.

I always chat to people in queues, I can't recall most of the older Russians, but the younger one I heard him talking to his girlfriend and greeted him and asked if they were Russian, that broke the ice and we talked. I do remember one of the older Russian's, a lady, actually she talked to me, I lost my hat in the sea at Kata Noi and told my son & his wife in the hotel pool and she overheard and said she had lost hers too. To be fair, all the older Russian's I spoke with were in fact on holiday and quite pleasant, the exception being when I wore my Puck Futin T-shirt, I had my children & grandchildren with me, there were 10 of us and I sat in the corner facing out, making it impossible to accidentally spill a drink on me ???? We all felt the hate that night. I also have more T-shirts with the Ukraine colours and Russian Warships Go "procreate" yourself.

I have talked with about half a dozen, only the young couple queuing before me for an ice cream were anti Putin & his war and were extremely worried about where they could go next.

They can also fly with Emirates & other Gulf Airlines, they still fly into and out of Russia.

A lot of the Russian's here are hypocrites, they support Putin and his war, they just don't want to fight in it. It tends to be younger generation who are opposed to Putin & his war, this latter group has my sumpathy and should be welcomed with open arms. I have no sympathy whatsoever with Putin supporters.

Yes lots in Kata, I was there last month eating in Pomodoro Italian Restaurant proudly wearing my T-Shirt and I got lots of people looking daggers at me, I can't imagine why.

Everyone assumes the war started in 2022. It actually started before 2014, then it was a hybrid war with Russian forces without insignia fighting Ukraine in the Donbas under the guise of being Ukrainians but wanting to join Russia. Minsk 1 in 2014 failed to stop the fighting. Minsk 2 aimed to stop the fighting and included a crucial clause aimed at Russia, "To withdraw illegal armed groups and military equipment as well as fighters and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine". Unsurprisingly, Russia said they had no personnel in Donbas. Putin saying Ukraine or the West failing to adhere to Minsk 2 as an excuse to invade Ukraine openly, was a smoke screen.

500k GBP but mustn't let the balance drop below 300k or you can have a mortgage with them for over 500K.

MG advertise that they have SuperChargers every 150km They also say non-MG's can use them, but you need an MG iShare card and it doesn't seem possible to get one to register if you don't have an MG. I did try my non-MG car on the fast DC charger at the MG dealership using my daughter's iShare RFID card and it was fine (much to the MG salesperson's surprise).

No really appropriate when talking about one country invading another. It only takes one invader to create one defender.

Company A controls Company B, but Company A is controlled by Thai's owning 51% of it. The Thai's owning Company A effectively control Company B, not the foreigner. All perfectly legal.