JBChiangRai

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I bought 2 of these, Electric Vehicle Ev Charger Type 2 32 Amp Portable Evse, Cee Plug 220v-240v Car Charging Cable, Iec 62196-2,j1772 - Battery Cables & Connectors - AliExpress Has a 32 amp Blue industrial plug on it, switchable 10, 15, 24 & 32 amp

I wouldn't worry too much about charging at 7Kw, the charging current is a lot less than the discharge current driving the car. I plugged my car in to charge this morning at 8:00am and I am charging at 24amp (5.3Kw) and it will have gone from 26% to the target charge of 80% at 17:20. It's a nice sunny day here and I have 3 of 6Kw grid-tied inverters charging the car and running the house, current solar output at 10:43am is 12Kw. If I charge at 7kw (32 amps), my Hybrid inverters used as whole house UPS crash & restart when charging finishes and my AVR breaker trips if a cloud passes the sun.

Only if you have also paid the taxes on the land for 10 years

If I understand it correctly... It is 2023 for Complete Built Up Units (CBU) i.e. imported as complete items and the manufacturer must make 1 car here for every CBU claiming incentive or 1 to 1.5 in some cases. It is 2025 for cars assembled here from Knock Down Kits (CKD). There are further restrictions on price, but this is for cars retailing at under 2M THB.

This is true, the tents have to charge 7% VAT on a 2nd hand car, however, if you finance it or negotiate, they may choose to lower the price and charge you a net figure. Often, they will refuse a cash deal but they make a lot of commission on the finance.

I think I paid about 12,000 for a 2-tone leather interior (seats & door cards) in my 4 door Vigo about 15 years ago, they did an excellent job.

It's probably only about 20,000 baht or so to have one of the mom & pop businesses retrim it attractively in real leather, pleated, perforated, piped in a nice contrasting colour or whatever takes your fancy. I did it in a Vigo years ago.

I checked with Roojai for my daughter's MG EP+ and they quoted just over 9,000 baht. Their policy has historically been that they don't cover imported cars, perhaps the MG EP+ is assembled here?

I think 10 minutes is perfect, I guess they are aiming for people to book their place in the queue as they arrive which makes perfect sense.

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.