JBChiangRai

I don't drive a Mercedes, I drive a Porsche Taycan and Porsche are known for understating their performance figures.

The article cites dissatisfaction with Level 1 charging which is non-existent here, Thailand is only Level 2 (4 times faster) or Superfast DC. I expect at least 20 years out of my battery if it's properly looked after. With a starting range of 510km, it should still have over 400km range at 20 years. I will probably be dead by then.

I used to have a Mercedes PHEV, real world battery driving was only about 19km, it had a 3.6Kw on board charger that took a couple of hours to charge it up, there was no DC charge ability, I think the Haval is unique in having that. You could switch the car to "Charge" mode on the Mercedes when the battery was exhausted, but there's no point doing that, using petrol to charge the battery is the worst of both worlds and very inefficient. The Haval having a large battery and fast DC Charging makes it by far the most advanced on the market. Personally, I favour a large battery and very small petrol engine in a PHEV that would allow you to limp along to the end of your journey, nobody is doing that.

How do you find the Haval H6 PHEV for noise? I watched a review and thought it was noisy (tyres and ICE) but it could have been bad microphone placement. My daughter test drove the Jolion, I sat in the passenger seat and thought it was noisy, but then most cars are when you're used to an Electric Car. We flirted with buying something else whilst we waited for the MG EP+ to arrive for her, I'm glad we waited. There is certainly no other PHEV with the kind of electric range of the H6 PHEV.

A year ago when I got my BEV, I was worried how I would drive it to BKK for its first service at 2 years old. Now I am not in the least worried and looking forward to the road trip later this year.

She probably told her parents she was working in a restaurant. In Thai culture Sinsod isn't paid for sex workers.

Does the Thai Tesla version have the international standard CCS2 charging socket? (as it does in Europe) Are will be they have Tesla's proprietary USA socket?

Not a problem yet. The only time I have seen another car at a charging station is when it's free to charge up.

I remember when you had to pay extra for Black with most manufacturers. Not a good choice in hot climates.

Thanks, I like the security aspect.

Is the card in the box? or do I need to ask for one?

Is the wall charger card operated? or iSmart? or buttons? If card operated, is it in the box? We haven't even opened the box on my daughter's EP+, I probably should.

Wheels are extra too

I have never married in Thailand and never will, I love being single. Consequently, I have never paid Sinsod and never will. Having been here 17 years (5 of them in Pattaya), there's not much I haven't seen. Relationships that fail, relationships that work, guys who lose all their money, guys who are happy with fantastic Thai wives and those that think they have them and don't. Put all those wives together on a girl's night out and they'll soon work out those that love their husbands and those that only love their husband's wallets, and oh boy! do they like to gossip! I look at this from a parent's perspective. As a single parent, I have adopted 2 Thai girls, one at 5 years old and her cousin at 8 years old, they are now 19 & 20 years old and both go to University, both have cars, a new house I bought for them to live in at University and my friends would say they are spoiled rotten. I think they would also say, I've done a great job raising them and they are lovely kids, of course it's possible I am slightly biased ???? I want the best for them, obviously. I want Sinsod paying, but it will be given to them, if necessary, I'll front the money for "Thai Face" sake. I understand the groom's family pay for the wedding (phew, that's a relief) so the wedding can be as large as they want it, or if they are poor and I have to pay, as small as I want it. I remember my Dad giving me the best advice ever, he said "Son, it's as easy to marry a rich girl as a poor girl, so marry the rich girl". Why didn't I listen? the last 40 years could have been much easier...

Most foreigners meet their prospective wives in a bar, a fact that is conveniently erased when they marry them and another type of meeting is invented. You don't pay Sinsod to the parents of sex workers in bars. You pay it based upon social standing, education level and being unsullied. You don't pay it to the parents of previously married girls, nor do you pay it to unmarried girls with children, you can of course pay it in all of these circumstances if you're an idiot.

I think if you're going to build a better anything, you take a good hard look at what's out there and build something better. For Tesla, there was nothing else to look at. For every manufacturer since, they probably bought a Tesla and worked out how they could build better. Maybe Musk will take a good hard look at what is better than Tesla (which is practically everything) and his next brand new car will be better. His chief engineer (Peter Rawlinson) wanted to improve Tesla and Musk wouldn't let him so he started his own company, Lucid. Lucid's motor is different, smaller and more efficient. I think Musk's view was that he didn't need to improve because there was no competition, hopefully his view is now different. The other issue with Tesla (which probably won't affect us here) is build quality. American workers don't have the work ethic of the Chinese, and your average worker doesn't care about quality. I know if I worked for Musk, I probably wouldn't be too motivated either, especially if I worked at Twitter.

Substantially cheaper and slightly de-tuned compared to the Porsche Taycan on which it is based. I wonder if you can get one quicker than the 18 months to 2 years you have to wait for a Porsche?

I think the build quality of Chinese cars is far superior to Tesla. What's with all the panel gaps? and bumpers flying off in the rain? and the autopilotcrash software? It's about time the Model S & 3 were replaced, refreshes are like putting lipstick on a pig. Come on Musk, invest in a new model! and where is that pickup truck? and the roadster? The guy's an idiot and a pedoguy for what he's doing on Twitter (in his own definition of pedoguy). He can't take criticism, creepy.

I am reminded of the definition of stupidity....

The whole idea of justifying cannabis on the basis of another product is nonsense. We should be allowed to have guns because kitchen knives are legal and more dangerous, total nonsense.

I believe Russia's Putin. I believed him when he said the little green men in Crimea weren't Russian Spetznatz. I believed him when he said they were only on training missions and wouldn't invade Ukraine. I believed him when his FSB guys said they were different people just visiting Salisbury UK to look at the spire. I believed him when he said his FSB guys didn't put Novichok in Navalny's underpants. I believed him when he said there were no war crimes against civilians in Bucha. I believed him post invasion when he said he had no desire to keep any Ukrainian territory. I believed him when he said more than 99% of Ukrainians in captured territory wanted to be Russians. I wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet in his head if I had the opportunity.

But you bought a car that appreciated the moment you drove it off the forecourt, thanks to the government incentive and long waiting lists.

BEST once forged a POD signature, I complained to Lazada and they turned up with the item the next day.

What's wrong with yellow snow?