JBChiangRai

I have a friend awaiting delivery of his MG EP+ that he ordered last October on my recommendation. He has condo's in Rayong & Chiang Rai without the ability to install a home charger. He can supercharge at MG locally in both towns very cheaply and get a free coffee whilst he waits. He will drive between the two locations, fast charging at the abundant fast chargers on the route, his cost savings over using a pickup truck were his main reasons for ordering his EP+. MG have a supercharger network, no further than 150km apart (so they claim). I rarely do long journeys, but I have noticed lots of superchargers, on the main routes at least.

I have changed my view on batteries for ESS, having taken delivery of an MG4 a week or so ago and got into the settings, and reading posts on a forum in the UK. I wouldn't buy an expensive battery or install a generator to cover PEA blackouts. If I was to go down this route again I would simply use the V2L capability of an MG4 and wire it into the house circuit using an ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch), permanently plugging the V2L adaptor into the car and setting the discharge cutoff to something like 40% SoC. Tests carried out in the UK suggest it will sustainably deliver 6.5Kw of power.

Allow me to correct your erroneous quote... Yes, full EVs are SOMETIMES UNsuitable for those who can’t charge at home or undertake frequent long trips EXCEPT IN THAILAND WHERE THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF FAST CHARGERS. Could I respectfully suggest that you try to keep up.

Not true, EV car sales last year are up 40% on the year before in the UK. Globally, up 50%. Source Bloomberg. from Highways agency While the number of petrol cars registered during 2022 as a whole (682,473) significantly outstripped the 267,203 BEV registrations, that figure was higher than the 82,981 diesel cars registered during the year. BEVs ended the year with 16.6% of the market in 2022, up from 11.6% a year earlier.

Maybe, I think they all operate on a 5 volt supply from USB type power, but it depends on what plug/socket combination is on the dashcam, if the plug fits, it should be ok. I bought the cheapest dashcam, 1,800 baht fitted, I don't know how to use mine either, the supplier told me just to unplug it shortly after an accident and the insurance company would do the rest.

What is the chart on the bottom right hand side? Is it something people used to put in their cars last century?

I am sure they will accelerate their delivery schedule. I certainly won’t be ordering at the current price premium over China, I think a lot of customers are going to get burned.

Deposit paid and my order is already in for the first Cyberster to arrive at the Chiang Rai dealership. Quite a beast if they deliver the claimed 0-100 time of 3 seconds.

I think I got luck with my LiFePo4 batteries, I paid 80,000 baht for 28.8KwHrs. My now deceased friend with a Chinese wife sourced them in China and sent them over "Thailand Special Line" duty free

Any ICE with a spark plug can run on Hydrogen, it's just a matter of how you get the mixture right Free piston engines developed from 1930, almost 100 years ago.

oh wow! an internal combustion engine, how very modern!

Can you set the cut-off voltage? that's the key number on a large GT solar system.

In the UK, they are a lot cleverer (surprise, surprise). They install meters with every transformer and periodically check that the meter reading at the transformer matches the sum of the meters of the houses it supplies. Sometimes one meter for every 30 houses. If it doesn't, they start looking at who is using more power than they are paying for.

Does anyone have first hand experience of a hybrid inverter that will export all its surplus energy to the grid? My recommendations are :- Design your roof for solar and not solar for the roof Go Grid-Tied without ESS Install a small solar system from an approved supplier with a feed-in meter, because at some point in the future, we are all going to be on digital meters. Install a larger grid-tied system yourself when the dust has settled Finally, use a grid-tied inverter that you can tweak the settings on * Use an Automatic Voltage Regulator * if you can tweak the settings, it can't be PEA approved, the MUST dedicated Grid-Tied inverter is approved and the settings are behind a password which they cannot give you (PM me for the password). Grid-Tied systems work by matching the frequency of PEA, then increasing their voltage to pump power out to the grid. My experience is the grid doesn't like taking the power, at a pre-set voltage grid-tied inverters go into an error mode, wait and restart. If you can increase that voltage then you can export more power. If your neighbours on the same transformer & same phase use a lot of power, you won't have a problem, they will soak up your power. For that reason, I would go 3 phase too.

My current house is generating an ROI at 20%. Blame that on installing 28.8KwHr's of LFP batteries, and doubling up on inverters because the Hybrid inverters were terrible at exporting.

In my last house I paid 130k for 22 panels and a 6Kw grid-tied inverter, I averaged 29 units a day at 4 baht per unit which is 41,000 baht per year, 3 years is 120,000 baht, I could have installed it for less with what I learned during the process.

With an ROI of up to 33%, not fitting Grid-Tied solar power is plain stupid. As the country transitions to EV's, PEA need all the help they can get from us with our tiny little installations.

A couple of my friends have been caught by the meter reader spinning their meters backwards, one of the apologised profusely and said it was set up incorrectly, the other got an estimated bill and it was corrected again the following month. But no huge problems.

They do but the equipment has to be approved, installed by an approved installer who usually charge a fortune and the paperwork is typically onerous so "palms have to be greased" at more cost. Then they buy back your surplus power at half the price they charge you for their power.

It's not so much "legal" as "naughty". Unless you have permission, you are not supposed to feed back surplus power into the PEA grid. Getting permission is like having orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

My daughter received her MG EP+ last October after a 6 month wait. I liked it so much I ordered one, I popped into the local MG dealer yesterday to check how much longer it would be and was told another 3 months, but I could have the new MG4 in blue "X" spec straight away. I switched my order to that and get it on Tuesday morning. I still can't help wondering if I have done the right thing, the EP+ is almost 200,000 baht cheaper, so cheap it's actually ridiculous. I can understand MG shipping the EP+ so slowly, they can't be making anywhere near the same margin on it.

You are not breaking any law (in the legal sense) exporting to PEA, you are only breaking their rules, it's no big deal, they are probably happy now that they understand why your consumption has dropped. Funny story, I checked our meter at 8:00 on the day they come to read our meter, we had used -5 units, I quickly plugged my EV in to charge and consume at least 5 units as quickly as possible. I checked again at 8:30 and they had already read the meter, paper bill on the gatepost, same reading as the month before, 0 units consumed and 26.34 baht standing charge only. They have never come before 9:30 and it's sometimes as late as 14:00. That will teach me to get complacent. They will come 3 days earlier this month because the month has only 28 days.

I wouldn't be too worried about PEA visiting, we had them come here when we kept blowing the fuse at the transformer, they know we have a large solar installation and they haven't done anything to us except split our 6 house development across 3 phases instead of all on one phase.

The nature of filters in water machines, especially RO filters, is that as time goes on their ability to filter out impurities improves, whilst at the same time the flow rate through the filter decreases as it gets more clogged up. At some point, the flow rate is so poor that it's more economical to change the filter. The only filter type I would trust for drinking water is RO (reverse osmosis).

Nonsense