JBChiangRai

For too many riders it’s about speed, exploring the limits around bends, using all the road etc. If we drove our cars that way, we’d be called idiots.

I don’t think China is dumping EV’s in Thailand, because there is in no way parity between the prices in Thailand, even after huge discounts compared to the prices in China. The prices in China are massively higher than the prices in Thailand, even after the discounts.

Most of the incentives you list have finished sometime ago, that doesn’t explain the 96.4% EV market share in September this year. You mentioned the UK, in August the UK exceeded it’s target for the year of 22%, the UK is storming ahead with EV’s. China, more than half of vehicles sold are EV’s. Thailand approx 15% of new passenger vehicles are EV’s, new figures imminent. People like EV’s, they prefer the superior driving experience. That the driving experience is superior cannot be argued.

Fulfilling our roles is how we have historically had and raised children and if you’d asked me if this was the best way 30 years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to suggest any alternative. I wasn’t a very present parent, initially I was climbing the corporate ladder and later building my own businesses. My wife was the same, she did what was required, but she wanted her own life too. After coming to Thailand, a failed relationship left me with my partner’s 5 year old child. I wasn’t going to throw the child out of international school and walk away. I knew from the start that letting the child aged 4 live with us was a lifelong commitment whatever happened. Second time around with kids, I did have the financial security to raise her and later her cousin. However, I also had the “ability“ to make my time available to put them first. First time around, I didn’t have the “ability” to do that, and I didn’t want to, my priorities were business, wife, kids in that order. Second time around, my priorities were kids, business in that order with a very heavy weighting on kids. I got the kids up in a morning, fed them, got them to school. Picked them up after school, got them dinner and put them to bed. I have been very much present and I think I’ve done a much better job than my wife and I did together when we had to fulfill our own roles. I couldn’t even have understood that 30 years ago.

If you are not generous with your cleaner then you will lose her to someone who is. My advice is always pay more than everyone else. I have a live-in housekeeper, she is much more than a maid or cleaner. She is hotel trained and that makes a big difference to the attention to detail.

It’s important to remember that having children is a long-term commitment. You need to be young enough to be sure you are there for them as they get into their early 20s, likewise if you have a track record of several marriages and if they never lasting longer than 10 or 15 years than you’re better giving it a miss. If you really want to do some good, then adopt children.

Inscrutable indeed cue: @transam

I am currently in Hong Kong and surprised to see a lot of shops and restaurants saying no cash. I was also surprised to see that using my Kasikorn debit card I can just touch it on the receptacles in places like McDonald’s and 7-Eleven and pay direct from my bank. Uber taxi from my bank too, I think you could live cashless here quite easily. You probably think when you make a digital transaction in Thailand to pay for something that the exchange is simply between your bank and the vendor, that’s not the case, your data is also stored centrally by the government in a data lake that can be analyzed by AI.

September in Norway saw EV’s take a 96.4% market share. https://electricdrives.tv/norway-sets-record-ev-market-share-for-september/#

How horrible, a quarter of million km before something breaks. cheap Chinese junk.

You are all wrong, please read section 71.3 of the Thai Road Traffic Act. You must not cross a green light unless your exit is clear, therefore he committed a crime.

Correct, it’s Section 71.3 of the Thai Road Traffic Act. The OP committed an offence. He crossed a traffic light when it was not permitted.

There is so much wrong with your post, I don’t know where to start. I can tell you I would never rent you with your attitude.

I only once took a 1 month deposit when the agent told me they were good tenants and had been burned by a previous landlord. I asked them if they were tenants of a particular landlady as I knew those tenants were trouble. The agent lied to me and said they weren’t. I paid the landlord the entire first month’s rent as commission. At the end of the first month the tenants told me they could not afford to live there and were going to move out. It took them three weeks to move out. When they moved out, they hadn’t paid either of the electricity bills. Since leaving my property they have burned at least one residential landlord, a commercial landlord and a school for 2 children school fees of 800,000 THB. They are just not good people. A note to AirBnB landlords, ALWAYS fill in a tax return. Thailand will be receiving data on all historic rentals, just like happened last year in the UK.

The tents have to charge an extra 7% VAT on used cars, they will often waive it if you take finance.

You committed an offense under section 71.3 of the Thai road traffic. Your exit was not clear, you are not to pass the line when the lights are on green.

They may only show you one but they take 2 photos with a 2 second interval, the first one the instant it goes red. You were most likely stationary in both photos. The lesson you need to learn is don’t enter the junction unless your exit is clear.

The semantics on the ticket are not great, running a red light is not the best description. Your crime was to enter a junction when your exit was not clear.

Aren’t you not meant to enter a junction unless you’re exit is clear? The fine is 500 baht, just pay it. I had one for turning right from the middle lane.

The best threat you can make to a landlord refusing to give you your deposit back is to threaten to report them to the revenue department. Very few landlords actually declared the revenue and pay tax on it. Particularly for Airbnb landlords as Airbnb will supply all the revenue paid going back to the very first rental to the Revenue department on request.

I think there is a translation error and what they are saying is that the minimum value of your trade-in will be 240,000 baht

I think there’s a translation error, I think when they say your existing car will have a trade-in value of a maximum of ฿240,000, they actually mean a minimum of ฿240,000.

I’ve driven through floods there twice before. It’s fairly common there.

Maybe they are saying you will get 240,000 baht trade-in allowance? We get promotions like this in the UK quite often and people buy wrecks (MOT failures) to trade in.

What is the promotion?