JBChiangRai

You may well be charged import duty at your arrival country, VAT Refund will enter your items on the plane's manifest and customs will know. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt and the bill.

Cue: EV haters….

I get that, but if the government wants everyone to go EV, they are going to have to do something about the condos/apartment blocks. The management committees will probably never do anything and individual owners doing it won't work unless they have an allocated parking space which most don't.

ticketyboo

Can you walk ok? or does that massive chip on your shoulder make it difficult?

Goes well with a Tart's handbag. I suspect it's a wrap

I don't for a minute think the government will give handouts to condo buildings to install charging points, but I do think they will legislate and make condo buildings install them. It will have to come out of common funds. There is no getting around the losses in all the extra steps, making the hydrogen, compressing it, transporting it, putting it in the hydrogen stations and lastly exploding it or using a fuel cell. There are theoretical maximums which can't be exceeded both fuel cell and H2ICE, latter is 50% and we've had over 100 years working on that and we're only up to 20-30% efficiency and Fuel Cell is 56%. Putting it straight into a battery is >95% efficient. H2 cars will always be more expensive to run.

I am not angry & grouchy, I enjoy an intelligent debate, it's just that you're not giving me one.

I'm happy to change my costing method, assuming a 30 year life then my cost per KwHr is 0.6 baht/unit. All going into landfill? There you go with your crystal ball again. I am assuming an imbilicial cord is a bit like an umbilical cord but more imbecilic?

On the inside, they have covered the seats in Alcantara and the outside the matt black trims with carbon inserts are replaced by glass black with grey (maybe carbon) inserts. There's probably another badge that needs removing alongside the MG4, Electric, iSmart & Britdynamic cr?p.

I pay about 4 baht/unit from PEA, but about 97% of my electricity comes from my Solar panels.

I was projecting but I did say so by prefixing it with "I think it highly likely", you should have done the same. I never said plugs in condo's connected to your own meter. I think we will see communal charging stations with RFID cards that will bill you personally. Solar is great, I have it, and you clearly have wind, a lot of it and hot.

I think we can all guess, it's going to be a beast.

You can't say there never will be charging points at condos, unless you have a crystal ball. I think it highly likely that there will be legislation mandating it. Some are installing them already. For most people, 1,000km range is nonsense. It's dangerous not to have a break every few hours and the range of most EV's s about 3.5 hours. We also have high speed charging stations every 30-50 km on the highways and you don't need any near your home. I don't think Hydrogen will replace EV's, I think it more likely they will be sold alongside EV's, possibly cheaper to buy if there is a Lithium shortage, but in any event, at least double the cost of fuel per km and maybe more if Hydrogen is taxed.

For safety & historical reasons. It keeps high voltages out the cabin, and historically, radios, lights, fan & windscreen wiper motors are all 12v

It's one of the reasons why Porsche pioneered 800v architecture and others are now moving to 800v too. Also faster charging, they charge like for like at half the current.

No it's a diffuser

I hope your "ass" comment was about the car and not referring to macahoom?

This is the MG4 video His verdict, unless you're a reader of EVO magazine, you should buy it. I don't think it looks like a tart's handbag. What it has going for it is the MG4's chassis and hot hatch setup. It's already a driver's car and they've firmed up the already firm suspension some more. I wouldn't be buying the matt green colour, matt paint is almost impossible to touch up or repair a panel. If we get it, it will come down to price, it could be as cheap as 1.25M if UK differentials apply across the Thai range.

The issue with H2 fueling cars is efficiency. Whether fuel cell or H2ICE, the whole process is expensive and inefficient. It will always cost twice as much per km for an H2 car over a BEV car. That said we may well see H2 cars if there is a shortage of Lithium and BEV cars become premium products.

Ultimately there needs to be some legislation to say apartment/condo buildings must install Charging Stations and it must grown by 20xx to cover y% of parking places and the cost of use must be no more than PEA tariff plus z%. I am fairly confident we will see something like that.

Actually, the reason Betamax lost to VHS was licensing. Philips made VHS available to all for free, Sony wanted a licence fee for their Betamax technology. It’s the same reason Windows won against the Mac, open architecture even though Mac was better.

One of the differences with EV’s over ICE vehicles is that when you put your foot down, you have the full horsepower instantly regardless of motor rpm, whereas in an ICE vehicle, the power builds to the quoted hp at a peak and then drops off, and the average power is a lot less than that, probably half the quoted hp, EV hp could probably be doubled to compare to ICE hp. I might be wrong, it’s just a theory.

Never had a Prius, had a Taycan Turbo until July this year in Thailand.

Actually fastestlaps got the 0-60 at 3.2 but the 0-100kph was 3.7 seconds, a 10th of a second slower than the Volvo, EX 30 performance