JBChiangRai

Her nationality or religion is irrelevant. I think defending her because you have the same nationality or religion is poor form. She 100% handled the situation badly, I think she was triggered, but we all have a responsibility to think before we speak and she should have done that. I had a birthday party in my home and one of the guests walked in wearing shoes. I asked him to remove them and he said it was too difficult. I told him the choice was shoes off and come to my party or shoes on and leave. I'm not having my ceramic floor tiles or stained wooden stair treads scratched by shoes, it is with good reason some places ask you to remove your shoes. People smoking in restaurants triggers me. I was eating in a restaurant in DaLat 2 weeks ago and a girl started smoking in the adjacent table whilst I was eating and I was downwind of her. I politely asked her if she would mind waiting till we had finished eating. I got a mouthful about how there were no signs up saying she couldn't smoke. It's down to politeness. The shoe wearing tourist should have apologised, the smoker at my next table should have said "no problem". The smoker was white as I am, it's irrelevant and I'm not defending her because we're both white, and anyone from the same country or religion shouldn't defend her for that reason. Let's be honest, her comments were indefensible.

Everyone is assuming you're talking about drinking water. Would that be right? If I had your problem I would be looking at whole house solutions. A water softener is the cheapest way to go, a whole house reverse osmosis system is the ultimate but likely to be about 150k baht installed.

Au contraire, your sarcasm prompted my sarcastic reply. It would appear that sarcasm isn't something YOU can easily grasp.

Especially if you drive an ICE car as it's between 12 and 130 times more likely to catch fire than an EV

TOU meters charge a higher than normal rate during the day. The problem was people were using their normal meter during the day and their TOU meter at night.

UK EV market share still growing strongly in a depressed market. Uptake of pure battery electric new cars grew by 8.1 per cent in April, reaching a market share of 20.4 per cent, up from 16.9 per cent a year earlier. Dan Caesar, chief executive of lobby group Electric Vehicles UK, said: “Month after month at least one in five new car buyers are now going battery electric. “As the industry demonstrates that battery electric vehicles are the cheaper and better option, more and more end-users will opt for all-electric vehicles.” The reasons why new car sales across UK dropped

Why stop there, go for the horse and cart instead (equally stupid suggestion)

I don't know why the colour would be indicative, I can only say that around here, all the 5/15 single phase meters have blue wires and all the others tend to have black wires.

Roojai will cover Seal Dynamic & Premium models with drivers 25 and over quite reasonably (circa 12-15k) I paid 30,000 to Viriyah for Seal Performance, Roojai won't cover this model.

First 15/45 I have seen with blue wires, maybe your meter was replaced at some time?

Correct. As I mentioned, that's what we did at our house in Chiang Rai.

You could take a walk and find a meter with blue wires and compare the size of those blue wires to yours. You do have enough power at the meter, the issue is whether your wiring to the house is big enough. In Chiang Mai, our electrician took a second set of wires from the meter to a 40amp ELCB and then a 32 amp socket. We have the standard wall mounted MG charger on the wall with a 32 amp plug fitted. When we sell the house, the charger is not a permanent fixture and won't be sold with the house.

You have a new digital meter. It's accurate between 5 and (100) amps. Your car will charge at 32 amps. What we don't know is what meter you had before, it was a 5/15 then the chances are the wires from the meter to the house are too small. Are any of the wires at the meter blue by any chance? Blue means 5/15 amp, not blue doesn't necessarily mean the opposite. I would ask an electrician to come and ask him to fit an industrial 32 amp socket where you want your charger and on it's own dedicated 40 amp breaker. If you don't have an ELCB breaker before your new socket, then fit one. Ask you electrician if your system will cope with it, he should tell you if it's not safe. Then I would buy a portable EV Charger like the one below or a permanent one and ask them to fit a short tail and 32 amp plug on it.

How small is your meter? 5/15 and you have a problem, 15/45 and you probably don’t.

The article title is wrong, it's not a bribe, it's blackmail.

No, that was for a BYD Dolphin standard range.

I predict that some governments will only approve level 5 autonomous driving if it is LIDAR and not Vision based. TeSSla have gone down a blind alley.

I spend a few months a year in Vietnam, typically 1 to 2 week trips (2 weeks in Hanoi/Dalat in April and Hanoi again next week). It's not as easy to stay there long term, I don't speak the language (I do speak Thai). My kids are in Thailand, my homes are owned and in Thailand, my friends are here. There are multiple reasons I like to go to Vietnam, apart from the fact I like it, significant among them is I pay for the whole trip from the UK and hence incur no tax liability and consequently, it's less money I bring to and spend in Thailand. I used to holiday at the KataThani and SAii in Phuket and JW Marriott in Khao Lak but the prices are now outrageous. I warned Thai Privilege Company I would do this in their survey if they started taxing foreigners on money brought here.

Roojai just quoted me 9,682 with insured value of 384,000 for 2 year old car. Pretty reasonable. @vinny41 you should really try to be less obviously biased.

35K is outrageous. I pay less than that for Seal AWD Performance and you can probably insure with Roojai for circa 10k.

Do you mean the rate at PTT? I don't know, she did say she is spending about half what she was on a Toyota Hilux. I know it's 8 baht per Kw/Hour at BYD.

I have a friend who has an MG4, she can only charge at PTT which she does while she has coffee in Amazon. She finds it very easy and is costing her roughly half the price of a gas car to use.

Do any of our esteemed members live in Chiang Mai?

Assuming you can tell the amount of power your inverter is producing at any one time and you're running hybrid with PEA topping up any shortfall. Then every 30 minutes max out the power used by running more than your solar can produce and record the output from your solar system. That will give you the kind of data I have to work from.

It's not normally possible to tell the unused power available for generation. This is because the inverter doesn't know it, it can only know what the maximum power can be by trying to max out the available power. In normal use, you're not using the available power and there is no way the inverter can know what that is. What I have done is max out the inverter (by grid export) and graph it by 30 minute intervals. If the sun is shining, I know roughly what is available from my chart before drawing power from the grid.