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If the battery is 35 KwHrs and we assume ithey are quoting 0% to 100% (since they don't mention anything else, this is the sensible assumption), then with losses you are going to have to give it 40 KwHrs (approx) and you are charging it in 6 minutes, that is 1/10 of an hour. 400 Kw for 6 minutes = 40 KwHrs. I don't think they are off by 9 years, but I do think it will take most of that to achieve mass adoption. No major manufacturer is going to switch across to their batteries without exhaustive testing. Incidentally, this isn't the first manufacturer to develop a BEV from a Lotus Elise (Tesla Roadster)

Most inverters have a SAVING or ECO button, generally they do one of these things... Mitsubishi - set the air con 2C more than you have chosen TCL limit the speed of the compressor to about 70% of rated output I think the Carrier also set the temperature 2 degrees higher than you have chosen, but I haven't operated one myself for about 4 years. Carrier & Toshiba are made in the same factory. Some will increase the temperature overnight with a sleep mode after 30 minutes or an hour, I always wake up too hot. Pay about this for TCL inverter 8,000 baht for 9,000 BTU 9,000 baht for 12,000 BTU 10,800 baht for 18,000 BTU and arrange your own installer.

We have been installing TCL for about 3 years. A good design makes it impossible for a gecko to get to the logic or power boards. I think the only way you can tell is with time and number of installs. We installed our first Mitsubishi inverter (heat pump) about 10 years ago and we've probably had about 100 unit years with no Gecko ingress. Daikin about 90 unit years with 7 gecko related failures. Carrier about 40 unit years, failures was a weld, I don't know if it was our installer's weld or not. In reply the post about TCL being noisy, we find them practically silent on the whisper quiet setting, we have only installed up to the 18,000 btu units, I can't comment on larger units. My understanding of most 24,000 BTU wall mounted units is that they overrate the 18,000 BTU unit with a faster fan and faster compressor, consequently they are noisier. We prefer to fit multiple 18,000 BTU units in larger spaces. My own kitchen is 6m x 13m and it has 3 of TCL 18,000 BTU Inverter units, we rarely run more than 2 at a time and mostly on fan setting 1 which is one notch up from whisper mode and almost imperceptible. 3 units is overkill but it's handy for parties. You need a very quiet room indeed to be able to hear them on the whisper setting.

I think the inverters are a far superior product, especially in a bedroom. Inverters have a whisper quiet mode achieved by slowing down both the inside fan and outdoor compressor, you can't do that with non-inverter because the compressor can only run at one speed and if you slow down the indoor fan too much it will ice up. Inverters typically maintain the indoor temperature within 1 degree (+/- 0.5C), non-inverters are typically at least within 2 degrees (+1/-1C), they overshoot on cooling and wait for temperature rise substantially above set point before restarting (for the technical, a larger hysteresis). Inverters typically vary their output between 20% and 100% of rated cooling capacity. Inverters don't click on and off, the click can wake some people up. Inverters save a lot of money. Inverters have a soft start, they don't spike the mains with heavy inductive loads. You can run inverter air con's on a generator without having to go massively over rating. Inverters typically operate across a wider range of AC voltage as they have Switching PSU's with under voltage protection.

And enjoy the rattling engine preventing you from nodding off and get out at the end of the journey knackered from all the NVH.

Our business developing moo baan now fit TCL as standard, no failures yet with dozens installed. Fantastic kit and so far, no fade on white plastic. Buy on Lazada when price at it's lowest. I don't recommend Daikin, we've installed about a dozen and replaced logic boards 7 times, always gecko ingress. One compressor failure too, replaced whole unit with a TCL. Fade to yellow on indoor unit, uneven with rotating louvre colour changing to completely different colour. One Mitsubishi heat pump power board went during a power cut when the generator went overvoltage (out of about a dozen), so can't really blame them. Colour fades to yellow evenly. Carrier, one failure out of about a dozen. No colour fade. LG, no failures but too noisy (pre-inverter). Colour fade to yellow.

The challenges of charging are immense. Allowing for losses, you would need to be charging at 400Kw average, there are issues with connectors and cables producing heat, I would guess it has to have 800v architecture as a minimum. It will need a whole new breed of DC chargers too. Generally, it takes at least 10 years to bring new technology to market, I'm more than a little skeptical.

Is Taiwan a sovereign state? The Montevideo Convention (1933) defined the 4 requirements for statehood. A defined territory A permanent population A government The capacity to conduct international relations. Taiwan satisfies all the Montevideo criteria, additionally, Taiwan has quietly and unequivocally declared itself a sovereign state distinct from China. Taiwan's recognition as being a sovereign state reminds me of being in my first school at 5 years old and the big bully telling me I couldn't be friends with certain other boys, and if I was then he would beat me up. There is only one way to ever deal with bullies. I am constantly amazed how corporations and governments continue to take a self-serving path when it is clearly morally wrong.

Eggsasperating, it's no yoke having to shell out more for Eggs

By threatening to invade the sovereign country of Taiwan? I don't think so!

Here's one on Lazada, however, I am sceptical 6 in 1 Water Quality Tester Tuya WiFi Multi-Parameter Water Quality Monitor Digital PH/Total Dissolved Solids/EC/SG/Salt/Temp Meter for Aquarium Aquaculture Swimming Pool | Lazada.co.th

Have you checked your testers against chemical tests? I'm concerned the digital things are pseudo science.

Where can you still get free charging in CM? My daughters are charging at home and that house doesn't have solar so I'm paying for it.

To get the price, for the first system I sourced the inverter and panels on Lazada, a friend recommended someone in BKK who configured my order for Aluminium mountings, and I ordered the cables etc. My local electrician installed it under my supervision, and he charged me 10k for the day for himself and 2 young guys. On the second system, I bought the 2 hybrid inverters direct from MUST in China and sent them "Thailand Special Line" with no VAT/Duty payable. I paid half the best price available on Lazada. They didn't do what I wanted (a decent amount of export to PEA) and sounded like jet engines so I bought 3 grid-tied inverters on Lazada (paying double the price I could get them in China but I wanted them immediately) and configured the Hybrid Inverters as UPS. PV panels, cables, mountings etc from Lazada and my local electrician charged me about 30k to install. The unrepeatable bargain was the LFP batteries, my friends Chinese ex-wife sourced them, 60k THB for 28.8 KwHrs, 10k THB shipping special line so no duty, and another 10k for my friend to assemble them with BMS & Active balancers into steel cases. On a Grid-Tied system, if you're careful, you can get these prices, not on batteries I think. Having installed both, I wouldn't go with anything other than Grid-Tied. Grid-Tied inverters do exactly what they say, silently. I am open to finding a Hybrid Inverter that will export to PEA "ALL" surplus solar and sync with other inverters to get >15Kw, but so far, I haven't found one. The other issue is batteries, unless you buy from a reputable supplier like Tesla, what are you going to do when your battery fails because one of the many cells fails? The best warranty you will get in Thailand isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I have doubts over the chemistry for this. Acid will increase conductivity, as will salt and any other kind of "salt" in the chemical definition of a salt. The only reliable way I can think of is using a chemical reaction and looking at the colour of it. So any accurate device would have to be topped up with reagents and use a colour sensor. Silver Nitrate is one of the reagents for testing salt level, I do that test, but it's one of the more complicated ones. I once bought an electronic salt measuring device, needless to say it didn't work, it simply measured conductivity and it could be anything in there that affects that.

I did go to Robinsons in KP, the fast DC Charger (EA Anywhere) wouldn’t work with my BEV car, neither would another EA Anywhere charger in Chiang Mai. It’s an issue with only 1 brand of german car apparently. There are 2 fast DC Chargers within 10km North & South on highway 1 within about 10km according to an app on my phone, I was going to detour to one of them when my friend told me there was an AC Charger at my hotel. I was even happier when it turned out to be free.

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.