JBChiangRai

You are all reading this wrong. The warning is about too much demand being filled under the subsidy schemes and the Thai government is concerned about whether the manufacturers can make sufficient required vehicles locally required under the subsidy scheme. It’s a very badly written article.

I think you can always wait for better technology. ICE technology has come on leaps and bounds in the last 10 years. I can’t wait 120 years, BEV’s are good enough for me now.

On the subject of Hydrogen as a fuel. It is very expensive, you start with electricity to make it and you end with electricity to run the motor. In between these 2 points you waste 70-80% of the energy in losses. More than one country has tried it and consumers didn’t like it

I have no idea, I don’t remember being asked that, or maybe I chose default option

You will here BYD are offering a similar guarantee to MG before the end of august. They are working on it now.

Nonsense. Used EV batteries will be repurposed for Solar power and clearly MG disagree with you as they guarantee for life.

Yes I am, it's hard for me to trust Daikin again.

Why is your ICE engine only guaranteed for 3 or 5 years? MG EV's batteries, electronics and motors are guaranteed for life.

I agree with your numbers. I have had bad experiences with Daikin Smile Inverter units, cases go yellow and I have replaced the logic boards on 5 out of 11 units due to Gecko ingress and one whole unit with a TCL because it was cheaper than repairing the drive electronics in the outside unit. I have also had installed 13 Mitsubishi Heat Cool units, 4 of them in Silver, 1 in Black and the rest in White. The white units went yellow very quickly too and if kept clean have no issues. The only ones I have never had a problem with so far are TCL, only 4 years experience but over a dozen units, no repairs and no yellowing (yet). Likewise a Fujitsu Heat/Cool cassette, ruinously expensive but, no issues in 3 years apart from learning it needs a reset after a storm.

Underground? I thought your kind lived under bridges?

We design & build housing estates. Can I sell you a house? they come with EV charging points and you can get rid of your old jalopy.

They are not advertised on their website. Chiang Rai Global House has them, but if you ask their (poor excuse for) sales people, they will probably say they don't have them because they don't know and it gets rid of you quickly.

It is 15.8% more efficient. You would need to use 189,000 baht in electricity to break even.

They are in Global House. Where are you? I have a 15KVA unit I want to upgrade to 20KVA. Incidentally, LiOA are the best units out there.

The issue I have with that model is to take the 18,000 BTU unit as an example, it is 4 times more expensive than a TCL Inverter model. The TCL SEER rating is 21.56 which is not far off the Daikin. A/C is a commodity now.

MG have faith in their batteries, I enclose a post from @vinny41 on another thread...; Starting in Thailand, MG has announced that they will be starting a program wherein EV models will have a lifetime warranty for 3 critical components of the EV drive system: the high voltage battery assembly (HV Battery Assy), the electric drive unit (EDU), and the power electronic block (PEB). That practically covers all the major components of the drive system, and provides unprecedented peace of mind for EV owners. Initially, MG Thailand will start offering this for four of their existing models: the MG4, the MG Maxus 9, the MG Maxus 7, and the MG Cyberster. MG says the warranty will be retroactive to customers in Thailand who already own any of the 4 MG models mentioned. Critically, they say that the warranty carries over even when the ownership of the vehicle has changed. The warranty is attached to the vehicle, not the first owner. https://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/gamechanger-mg-has-begun-to-offer-lifetime-ev-battery-warranty.html

Any details on this, I'm interested for our next new build.

You should find it on the Electric Vehicles in Thailand thread. It was my work actually, and IIRC compared a few vehicles. There is also the experience of a couple of us who have sold EV’s, I have sold 2 and another member here has sold 1. We didn’t notice any different depreciation. Well, to be clear I did on one of them, it lost only 10% over 2 years, but that was an unusual case.

unless both you compares ICE and EV are from the same seller on one2car

I think the word you are looking for is “drivel”. I’m glad to see you practice what you intended to preach. You dribble a football.

And there is a vast difference between worked examples (taken from one2car) and unjustified idiotic speculative opinions.

Nonsense, buyer beware and they were warned prior to opening.

A well thought out post, justified by great references with copious studies. Currently secondhand values on EV's are no different to their petrol counterparts. Worked example on the Electric Vehicles in Thailand thread.

My EV battery is guaranteed 60% longer than your Nissan engine.

I am surprised the replacement lithium batteries are so cheap? that sounds cheaper than replacement lead-acid batteries.