JBChiangRai

Probably because I’m not wrong?

I have done some research, I think we are talking at cross purposes. Solar panels do not catch fire, installations of solar panels, catch fire, but it appears to be the wiring or the electronics, never the solar panels themselves.

Ok, but solar panels don’t readily catch fire, they are mostly aluminium and glass. I can’t see either of those catching fire on a roof, melting maybe. There is an issue with mandating solar panels on new builds. There is already an issue with the power grid becoming unstable through too much solar power production in parts of Australia. It’s not unsolvable, but it needs addressing. When you have solar power, and an EV, your motoring becomes extremely cheap.

I think you are confusing batteries with solar panels, solar panels are not flammable, it’s the batteries that catch fire, albeit extremely rarely.

HEV & PHEV are a better solution for some people, typically people traveling huge distances every day ie business. Those of us with abundant leisure time can still easily travel those huge distances in an EV. Yes you are going to be worried about this until you actually try it, I was until I did it, but it is perfectly feasible in Thailand today. Battery technology is going to continue to improve. I just hope the usual cycle of discovery to production of 10 to 25 years can be significantly improved. As for solar power, I would like to see it mandated that all new-builds must have solar panels on the roof to achieve net zero or 100% roof coverage which ever comes first.

I only watched the video up to the first incorrect statement, at that point, I stopped, because if he’s going to make incorrect claims, then there’s no point watching the rest of it. I’ve watched a few videos from that guy in the past, and they are usually rants about something. His incorrect statement was claiming that the Fremantle ship that caught fire was due to an EV fire. That statement came from the Coastguard, and it was later retracted as an opinion, not fact, there is zero evidence of that fire coming from an EV.

When I am wrong, I will readily admit it. The last time I was wrong was when I proposed to my (ex) wife.

As a business founder I can see problems with the TPC business model. It’s revenue is mostly upfront on sales but it’s cost are continuous and post-sale loaded. It would be standard practice in the West, to amortise the sales revenue across the anticipated remaining years of the customer and/or accrue costs against the sale for anticipated future costs from the customer using their after-sale services. This is Thailand, my money is on them taking all the revenue in each year and deducting only their costs in that year to produce a profit statement. It leads to increasing costs and a kind of Ponzi scheme of ever increasing required sales to achieve the same previous %age margin. The end result is that a new broom will want to remove costs (ie expensive services) and increase revenue. I think that is where we are probably at.

Correct, our THAI bank accounts. Interestingly, I didn’t declare them.

I think you missed an important point. The experiment was performed with 1 cell, on all sides it was cool. To be a more accurate test, it should have had cells on either side, to see whether one cell damaged could cause thermal runaway in the others. On the issue of me being impolite twice, two wrongs do make a right?

Like I said, prove me wrong and I’ll apologize otherwise I’m calling your claim BS

MG don’t have their act together on English manuals. I can get a manual from England, but the software is different.

I’m calling BS on your claim the Australian Fire service stating the prevalence of fires in both types of vehicles is the same. I can’t find a single statistic to verify that, everything I find says the prevalence of fires in EV’s is massively lower than ICE cars. Prove me wrong, and I will happily apologise.

Do you have an English manual? I’m impressed.

Actually, I just watched one of the two videos I could find from Australia’s firefighters, and they didn’t mention prevalence

I don’t feel lucky or unlucky, for sure, if my EV caught fire, I would feel very unlucky

I accept that in the unlikely event of a fire with an EV, it would be catastrophic. But I know it’s highly improbable. If I was worried, I would charge my EV outside and not in the integral garage at my house. by the way, I don’t have a fire extinguisher, or a blanket, because I consider the likelihood of a fire so improbable

I have researched EV fires in Australia and all I can find is how RARE they are. I don’t believe they approach anywhere near the prevalence of ICE vehicle fires https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/ev-battery-fires-are-rare-but-on-australian-governments-agenda I can’t find a single article, stating they have the same prevalence

Except the statistics say the prevalence is 60x more fires in ICE cars. I can’t find your video, please post a link

We should all be considerate and polite, just because I was impolite too, it doesn’t make it right.

O’Kane’s in popular (has Guinness), Hangover Bar if you are a smoker For food and Guiness/Kilkenny/other premium brands then La Ola mediterranean restaurant

Ah, Scotland

Yes I remember that case

Prince Charming.

Shifty? In Pattaya? Shirley not!