JBChiangRai

It can get bad here, I guess I am lucky it doesn’t bother me too much. Central Festival welcomes EV’s, they even have Charging Stations, they used to be free.

I don't know, what are the limits on your ICE car? it's 60 times more likely than mine to catch fire.

A good point, apparently some insurance policies don't cover the battery.

Note to self: Don't park my EV at CS in Delhi I appreciate the tip.

I will rest easy secure in the knowledge it's 60 times less likely than your ICE car.

Actually they make more pollution too, but that is another story.

Toyota's long time chairman had to fall on his sword recently because he didn't want to believe EV's would take off and so kept Toyota out that sector, the board fired him. Toyota is now firmly behind both Hydrogen AND EV's. I think Toyota are out on their own believing Hydrogen is the future. I could argue H2 is a superior solution, but it's too late, BEV's have already won. Incidentally, the Toyota Mirai is a horrible car, only big enough for 2 adults and 2/3 children, it has 3 hydrogen tanks.

When my daughters come home from University in Chiang Mai or I stay with them for occasional weekends, yes we park side by side. I have another EV open top sports on order (deposit paid) for middle of next year, first one in Chiang Rai comes to me, and I told them today I will have an MG4 X-Power as soon as they are released here, sales manager told me they are coming.

Yes, absolutely. Laughing in silence with no Noise, Vibration & Harshness, laughing all the way to the bank and making such a wise decision purchasing 3 of them.

This has been posted before, Vedaing are a small company in Macedonia who produce and sell Lithium Battery Suppression Systems. It's biased and contradicts real life statistics gathered by the US NTSB and Insurance Companies.

I have posted links to the 60 times quote, twice here on 2 different threads, I suggest you read those threads properly. Here's some https://belux.edmo.eu/fact-check-do-electric-cars-catch-fire-more-often-than-combustion-engine-cars/ https://belux.edmo.eu/fact-check-do-electric-cars-catch-fire-more-often-than-combustion-engine-cars/ https://autofile.co.nz/fire-risk-higher-in-ice-cars- https://autofile.co.nz/fire-risk-higher-in-ice-cars-

I never said it was in the condominium act, actually I think it's in the fire code and part of the inspection to get your certificate, it should be repeated in your condo rules, below is the only link I can find ไขข้อข้องใจ ทำไมคอนโดไทยห้ามใช้เตาแก๊ส? (condonewb.com)

I try to avoid that, in my minds-eye I am still a handsome 21 year old, the mirror destroys that illusion.

That was satire, clearly it went over your head.

Which claim have I made and not backed it up with links?

Bob, you are a fine figure of a human being. True inspiration to us all. Your moral compass is exceptional.

Shocking!

Maybe they will increase the width of the parking spaces so less cars can park and we won't get those annoying dings on the car from careless neighbour parking.

Gas bottles/appliances are still illegal in condos here in Thailand

I have converted 3 vehicles to LPG here for business purposes. By far the most interesting was a Toyota Vigo 3.0 diesel automatic. The vehicle starts and runs on diesel until about 1,200-1,400 rpm after which it rapidly transitions to pure LPG. As the LPG came in, it sounded like a noisy sewing machine with a massive boost in power, I never dyno'd it but it would beat a Benz away from the lights with a claimed 0-100 of 6s. The fitters made a mistake, there is a solenoid operated valve, apply power and it allows LPG out the tank, remove power and it isolates the tank. Probably standard on all LPG conversions. They wired the solenoid valve directly to the battery so it never shut off with the result that the battery would go flat after a few days if you didn't use it. I converted a new Pajero Sport 2.4 manual that we used for customer collections and over the course of 5 years we saved about 300,000 baht on fuel, we only lost 100k in depreciation factoring in the LPG savings.

Aha! A Q-Anon guy!

Why don't you tell us? Please post the links.

Those statistics are available for ICE cars (maybe not broken down into fuel type), if you google, you’ll find them, the American government keeps statistics and so do many insurance companies. Generally, ICE cars are 60 times more likely to catch fire than battery EV’s. But you are right, a major EV fire in a multi-storey car park is going to be very bad news. However, they have been around for 10 years, and it’s not been a major issue yet.

Yep Thailand's Interior Ministry rolls out digital ID app in drive towards Thailand 4.0 | Thaiger (thethaiger.com) also links from Bangkok Post and lots of other government departments, try googling Thai digital ID "Thailand 4.0" An email from BitKub rejecting my new passport specifically said they could only accept Digital ID's because of Thailand 4.0 compliance

I agree with most of what you say, but current thinking is most battery packs will outlast the car. We should be able to recycle them at EOL too. I think the massively complicated ICE has run it’s course and don’t think fuelling ICE cars with H2 is a good solution, I like fuel cell technology but think it’s too little, too late.