JBChiangRai

Yes I see that, thank you.

Of course you're not Bob, you are Colin Neville who is happy to tell everyone who he is and that he's lived here for 5 years and is cheating on his wife. You wouldn't do that if you were Colin Neville.

You have a very creative translator. It says... For example, it requires new investors to invest in Thailand. It must come in the form of a joint venture with Thai companies and Thai supply chains as a joint venture of at least 30% according to the law, including requiring the use of domestic parts as much as possible. If it can be done, it will not only be a long-term solution, but also help solve the problem of price competition My translator says nothing of the sort you claim.

I meant a link that supports your claim that they are only 20% domestic content?

Do you have a link for that?

I already outlined the risk of fines and explained why it might soon be a great time to buy a Chinese EV. As for tents buying EV's from auctions, that's actually rarely what happens. They usually buy them from main dealers when the car given in part-ex doesn't match the main dealer's criteria for resale, e.g. a Ford dealer gets a Toyota in part-ex etc. You failed to mention that ICE vendors have suffered much more of a percentage reduction as the share of new EV's sold each month is increasing and the corresponding ICE share is decreasing.

Strange that lots of tents are advertising EV's on One2Car.

I'm going to guess "under a bridge"

A well thought out and eloquently argued post with lots of references to back it up.

It can't very much. You start with electricity and you end up with electricity in your Hydrogen car. You may improve efficiencies a small amount, but it's much more efficient to put it in batteries. There's a 33% loss making Hydrogen, 2/3 makes Hydrogen and 1/3 of the power makes Oxygen, splitting the molecule 2 x H20 to 2 x H2 and 1 x O2

At the risk of being repetitive, by all means drive Hydrogen, you will pay around 5 times more per km. The enclosed graphic assumes the Hydrogen producer charges cost price, the distribution charges cost price and the government doesn't tax it (good luck with that!).

No Cobalt or Nickel in any of our EV's.

Is that why I bought 4 of them over the last 3 years? 5 if you count a PHEV. Subsequently 2 sold at amazingly little depreciation.

It's funny you should say that. We are possibly heading into the best time ever to buy a Chinese EV. Under the terms of the subsidy, manufacturers must build a proportionally greater number in Thailand than they imported and sold. The whole car market is on its knees in Thailand, whilst EV's are outperforming ICE in terms of continuous growth for market share since February. Manufacturers may be fined if they don't hit their targets of locally produced vehicles sold, the fines are huge, you may see discounts of up to 30%, possibly much more. The average EV consumes 4KwHr's of electricity per day. Much less than your air con. The grid can easily cope. Swiss bankers UBS paid a firm of engineers to strip down a BYD Seal and report on its quality and technology. Their report warned the motor industry that not only was the quality up there with the very best, also the technology was at least a generation ahead and legacy automakers couldn't make a competitive car at the cost BYD were selling their Seal retail.

And he was wrong about EV's. They depreciate no differently than ICE cars. Check out one2car.com

Thailand has an excellent charging infrastructure. It's not like gas stations, the nearest you will need to your home is 150-250km away. On the highways there are fast chargers every 20-30km away and most hotels now have charging stations. Tesla issue a warning with their cars in cold climates, don't park the car up with less than about X% battery remaining. The car won't charge at very cold temperatures and that X% is needed to warm and pre-condition the battery to enable charging. People in Canada have had problems because they didn't RTFM. Except it isn't, the UK had its highest share of EV's as new vehicle sales for over a year in August, 23%. Thailand the same with 15% (7 consecutive months of increases), Norway now 94%. The only denier is you, and not so eloquently, if I may say so.

That post has been debunked multiple times already on this forum. Ride sharing companies went bust.

LOL, do you want to pay 3-5 times as much per kilometer with Hydrogen? Maybe double that allowing for profit and taxation.

It is complete rubbish to say all major car companies are scaling back their EV plans. Change that statement to "many major car companies that can't compete with Chinese manufacturers are scaling back their EV plans." and we're getting nearer the truth. Now ask why? Is it because people don't like EV's? No, that can't be it because EV demand is growing month on month all over the world. Is it because their EV's are more expensive than Chinese EV's? Yes, that's one of the reasons. Is it because their technology is not as advanced as Chinese EV's? Yes that is another of the reasons. Is it because they have to buy their batteries from Chinese companies? Yes, that is another of the reasons. Next year's, Toyota & Mercedes EV's will have BYD batteries.

Except you're wrong. Demand is accelerating in the UK. August's sales figures released last week show that for the first time EV's grew to take a 23% market share in the UK. Market share in August reached 22.6%, the highest for a month since December 2022, when BEVs commanded 32.9% of all new cars reaching the road August 2024 New Car Registrations - SMMT Media Centre

Nonsense.

You can buy the Toyota bZ4x in Thailand or you can spend considerably less than half as much and get a superior car with the BYD Atto 3. Nobody wants a Toyota EV, their Thai sales numbers are appalling.

I reread your initial post. I think making a deduction for the missing warranty is not something you can do. You made a unilateral decision. My advice is pay that, so you have paid everything you have contracted for and ask him (in writing) to provide the missing warranty, assuming it is specified in the contract. f he doesn't then notify him that you will be asking an external supplier (try iCandy) to quote to warrant the equipment, and inform your supplier that you will sue him for the cost of that. You need to get yourself onto the moral and legal high ground and put him on the backfoot.

Not at all, as I said, I'm well represented, but thank you for your concern.

I do usually add a tin of chopped tomatoes, and a generous heat teaspoon full of marmite, no salt if using marmite.