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It's difficult because I threw the receipt away. It's doubly difficult because the shop is owned by one of my friend's parents who gave me a discount. I don't want to risk a friendship for 550 baht.

"Low charge induces sulfation, an oxidation layer on the negative plate that inhibits current flow." I would call that damage. "Topping charge and/or cycling may restore some of the capacity losses in the early stages of sulfation" I would call that permanent damage.

A sulphated battery is permanently damaged. In the early stages of sulphation, you can reverse "some" of it, but not all. However you look at it, some of the batteries capacity has been lost. A month ago, I bought a new VRLA AGM battery for a Honda Click from the largest battery shop in Chiang Rai. I neglected to check it's voltage at install time. It's failing already. I won't make that mistake again.

Here you go Source @ExpatOilWorker who got them from www.autolifethailand.tv Putting these numbers in context February 92.6% of new cars were ICE powered March 89.4% of new cars were ICE powered April 89.2% of new cars were ICE powered May 87.9% of new cars were ICE powered June 86.6% of new cars were ICE powered As you can see the market share of ICE cars dropped every month Compare that to the market share of new EV's February 7.4% of new cars were EV's March 10.6% of new cars were EV's April 10.8% of new cars were EV's May 12.1% of new cars were EV's June 13.4% of new cars were EV's. As you can see the market share of EV's increased every month In fact, EV market share grew 30% in March 2% in April 11% in May 10% in June The fact is that people are switching to EV's in droves.

Apologies i messed up your quote @vinny41 What you have posted is misleading and incorrect and doesn't support figures release by the DLT % are meaninless Auto Brands are mainly focused on number of vehicles sold and how did we do compared against our competition July 1st 2024 EV sales continue to drop driven by tight economic conditions Data from the Department of Land Transport indicate that the EV market has not been particularly strong since the beginning of the year. January recorded the highest number of registrations for the year at 13,321 units, driven partly by a rush to register before the January 31 deadline to qualify for benefits under the EV promotion plan, EV 3.0, which offers a 2% excise tax and a subsidy of up to 150,000 baht. This rush led to a sharp decline in registrations the following months. If the cumulative total for the first five months is extrapolated for the entire year, EV sales are expected to be close to 76,000 units, considerably lower than the overall projection of between 100,000 to 130,000 units. https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/business/automobile/40039276 And yet February 7.4% of new cars were EV's March 10.6% of new cars were EV's April 10.8% of new cars were EV's May 12.1% of new cars were EV's June 13.4% of new cars were EV's. EV market share grew 30% in March 2% in April 11% in May 10% in June The fact is that people are switching to EV's in droves.

Time will tell for Porsche. I don't know why their Taycan EV sales fell 51% in Q1 & Q2 this year, I can only tell you why I sold mine. I sold mine at 2 years because the warranty was only 2 years, it was also unreliable being trailered back to the authorised dealer twice. It was going to need 4 new tyres (200,000 THB), it's first service, and another year's insurance (120,000 THB). But most of all I sold it because I read they had dramatically ramped up production and the Thai dealer told me the time on the waiting list was expected to drop significantly and that would likely impact second-hand values. I replaced it with a Chinese EV with similar performance at only 16% of the cost. It's 95% of the fun.

The word "Switching" was used by you and me. Not "Switched". Switching needs a comparison. I gave the comparison. February 7.4% of new cars were EV's March 10.6% of new cars were EV's April 10.8% of new cars were EV's May 12.1% of new cars were EV's June 13.4% of new cars were EV's.

Going back to your original post Transam. It's not reasonable to believe that VAG (Porsche), Ford, Toyota & GM suddenly, separately but at the same time develop some ground breaking new technology. What this article is saying is they have all tweaked petrol engines in different ways to get a bit more efficiency. There is nothing groundbreaking. You need to look deeper at why they are saying this. Could it be they are worried about increasing demand for EV's? Could it be they are frightened? (Toyota definitely are). There isn't a week the goes past when we hear something, usually about Toyota, "Revolutionary new Hydrogen Engine", "Revolutionary new BioMethane Engine", "Revolutionary new Ammonia Engine". I think it was 2014 when Toyota said they would have sold-state batteries powering their EV's within 9 years. We are now 10 years later and it appears the new Toyotas will have BYD Blade Batteries and their new Hybrids will have BYD Blade Batterries and BYD turbo charged engines! All these nonsense press releases and videos are there for one reason only. To try and stop people buying EV's now by promising milk & honey later. That Milk & Honey ain't coming.

The numbers of EV's sold tells you nothing about whether people are switching to EV's, you know this Vinny. You have to look at whether people choose EV over ICE & vice-versa and look at the percentages. That tells you what is going on. The total number of vehicles sold each month tells you about the overall market. Suppose one 100 EV's were sold in July, what does that tell you? It tells you demand has crashed for EV's or demand has crashed for cars. If you now add to this that no ICE cars were sold at all, it completes the picture. Demand for all cars has crashed. When you present information, it has to be meaningful and not try to lead the reader to a fake conclusion. What you posted is misleading and you know it. EV market share grew 30% in March 2% in April 11% in May 10% in June The fact is that people are switching to EV's in droves.

Sorry, but you are wrong. Permanent damage occurs when the voltage is below 12.4v. When that battery arrives to you with 12.4v, you have no idea how long it's been at the voltage sulphating with permanent damage. All batteries in storage are mean to be recharged every 6 months at a minimum to prevent the voltage getting to that level. BU-702: How to Store Batteries - Battery University

The fact is the EV sector is growing and the ICE sector is shrinking. Whether vehicles are piling up anywhere is irrelevant because the whole car industry is crashing. However you slice and dice it February 7.4% of new cars were EV's March 10.6% of new cars were EV's April 10.8% of new cars were EV's May 12.1% of new cars were EV's June 13.4% of new cars were EV's. EV market share grew 30% in March 2% in April 11% in May 10% in June The fact is that people are switching to EV's in droves. Just to take what I think was probably one of your posts. BYD cars piling up at a port in Europe with the headline that some of them for more than a year. The reality was the cars were transient for a couple of weeks only because there was insufficient local transport available and those that had been there a long time (a handful only) had issues awaiting mechanical intervention. Most of this stuff you read is just untrue. The increasing market share tells you everything you need to know.

Check the voltage when it arrives 12.6 and above it's ok 12.4 and below it is damaged already.

KhunLA has already addressed that. All those links have been discussed before, you're welcome to trawl through the forum and find where they were debunked. I, however, will not be doing that for you.

You ask how to explain that. Easey Peasey. It's fake news. February 7.4% of new cars were EV's March 10.6% of new cars were EV's April 10.8% of new cars were EV's May 12.1% of new cars were EV's June 13.4% of new cars were EV's. So EV market share grew 30% in March 2% in April 11% in May 10% in June Don't insult my intelligence with fake news you find on the internet.

There is no significant new technology there. Manufacturers have been improving their efficiencies for many years, and there is nothing significantly new here. Move along!

Global House in Chiang Rai has LiOA Stabilsers in the following capacities… 3000w 7500w 15000w 20000w Alas no 10000w

There aren’t. You are misinformed.

Unless it's PHEV it's a con. People are buying hybrids because in many cases, that's all that is available.

Wow, it burns petrol in an engine with pistons and a gearbox. Who would have ever thought of that! That is revolutionary! (pun & sarcasm intended)

I prefer the idea of a gas range extender with a pure electric drive train than a traditional hybrid which needs a gearbox etc. Any failure in the gas part of the car means you can still drive it.

I'm worried about you, have you caught Transamitis?

I am not from the former colonies.

Your text How so? Elsewhere on this thread many people have said one cannot be resident of Thailand for tax purposes if one stays under 180 days. Do you have any authoritative source for saying Thailand simply being my "main residence" could make me liable? And why do I have to be tax resident somewhere? I've been tax resident in Thailand for twenty years, but have never paid direct tax because I've never remitted money here in that time, having brought sufficient money in beforehand. What if I spend 178 days in Thailand, 175 days in country B (which will not consider me resident if I live somewhere else more) and 12-13 days in country C, none being my country of birth (which does not tax non-resident citizens). End your text You make it very difficult to reply when you type within someone else's quote, so I have reproduced it here. If you'd read a little further before quoting me you would have seen the above quote at the top of this post where I went on to say that some countries consider you to be tax resident if you are tax resident nowhere else but you maintain a permanent home in their country re and your home country may consider you tax resident if you are not tax resident anywhere else. I don't know if Thailand is one of the countries and I don't know where your home country is, so you'd need to take expert advice. Some nationalities do not allow no tax residence.

I can't answer for your house, I would hope it is not taxed. Your second point, if you give money to a trusted friend with the intention of him giving you 10M baht per year (20M baht does not apply to friends) then this is not a gift, it's tax evasion. If you didn't give him money and he sent you 10M baht per year on your birthday or Christmas then it would not be taxable. The reason the first case is different is because firstly you didn't gift him the money, it was intended for him to send to you, so it's tax evasion. In the second case there was no such intent and you didn't give him the money he was just a very generous guy. But even in this scenario it would require very careful documentation and he would have to be sufficiently wealthy for the gift to be insignificant in accordance with his wealth.

I do own a BYD. No smell at all in mine, except when I fart and for sure, you wouldn't want to be there then. The quality of the plastics is excellent in mine, and the vegan leather, and the alcantara.