JBChiangRai

It was a Porsche Taycan Turbo EV. The fire seems to be front and rear but not where the battery is, it will be interesting to find out the cause. I don’t think it’s possible to remove a battery if it’s on fire.

A reference would be nice

Yes I did and yes it is an EV.

I retired here in 2007, they were a client of my software house in the UK and I agreed to do a year with them in 2009 and ended up doing 2 years with them. Unusual management style.

I think you'll find most people don't want to respond to your posts.

Thailand has made huge advances in its grid in recent years, in the case of solar they have added 1,500 MW of solar from one company alone (Loxley, where I spent a couple of years as Sales Director) and they are intending to double that. 1,500 MW will supply those 280,000 KwHr's in 12 minutes if the sun is shining (assuming I have understood the terms correctly).

Easily solved with a silver hammer.

Two months ago, S&P downgraded Nissan's credit rating to Junk, I think you would need to be very brave to buy a Nissan currently.

A fuel pump breaks much more often than an EV charger, mechanical devices always do. I have yet to see a comment from you which is not trolling, I live in hope.

If your fuel pump breaks you are stuck. If there is an alien invasion you are stuck, any more useless comments Troll?

But that's not what you said, you now mention the energy grid not being able to cope. The average EV uses 4kwHr of energy per day, it is not difficult for the grid to cope with that and the grid will probably be enhanced at a faster rate than uptake of EV's.

I think you misread my post, that’s pretty much what I was saying.

Many people are under the misapprehension that they need charging stations near their home, with a home charger the nearest you will ever need a charging station is 150km away.

What is the battery chemistry?

One way to Sing/KL etc roundtrip KL/Sing to (say) UK. back to BKK

I suspect any P2P type activity is classed as money laundering in Thailand. You can only use a registered exchange that submits details of every trade to the Thai Revenue Department so they can check you pay the right amount of tax. Do they do that with P2P?

I think we will see more and more legacy automakers who aren't in a position to make BEV's pushing Hybrids. not so much PHEV because they can't make those either. Chief among these will be Toyota, I think we will see them come out from the shadows they are so active in and go full blown anti-EV pro Hybrid publicly. I have lost all respect for Toyota which I used to see as an excellent company, I have had 3 new Toyota's in Thailand in the last 18 years. I will never buy another. Those that invested early like BMW & Mercedes seem to be doing a good job. Toyota's problem is they developed Nickel Metal Hydride batteries and they don't have LFP experience or technology, they took the wrong path years ago and are now at least a generation behind. Toyota "Self Charging Hybrids", I hope consumers aren't that stupid, but human stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

I think a strategy for a foreigner married to a Thai would be for the Thai spouse to open up a bank account in husband's country. Farang to gift half his overseas taxed income to his wife, paying it into her overseas bank account which she remits to Thailand. Farang brings his half to Thailand as assessable income and they both live respectively on their own half of that income, being careful to always take turns paying or split bills 50/50.

I used Tanjo, he's in the BigC in town. as you drive up the entrance road, he has the big glass booth on the right hand side.

I don't think that can happen, there is nothing that says a gift must be received in Thailand, this is also in line with advice from www.expattaxthailand.com

I think between a) and b) it is safer to b) In other words, it is better if the Thai receiver of the gift receives it overseas and they then transfer it to their Thai bank. There can then be no question about whether it is assessable income for the giver.

Or to rephrase Pedestrians are twice as likely to step out in front of a quiet car and cause an accident (like an EV for example).

Fred is British and a Thai tax resident, he has a pension in the UK which is taxed at source. All transfers are from his UK bank. Fred has 3 daughters. a) Daughter 1 is a Thai citizen, living in Thailand and Fred sends her 10M baht to her Thai bank account b) Daughter 1 is a Thai citizen, living in Thailand and Fred sends her 10M baht to her UK bank account, subsequently maybe years later, she may or may not bring it to Thailand claiming gift allowance. c) Daughter 2 is a UK citizen spending 4 months only in Thailand, Fred sends her 10M baht to her Thai bank account d) Daughter 2 is a UK citizen spending 4 months only in Thailand, Fred sends her 10M baht to her UK bank account which she sends to her Thai bank to fund her holiday. e) Daughter 3 is a Thai Citizen spending 4 month in Laos, Fred sends her 10M baht to her Laos bank account. Which of those do you think count as assessable income for Fred? Case (b) is particularly interesting

If I gift pension money, tax deducted in the UK, to someone in Laos, is it assessable income for me in Thailand? If I gift pension money, tax deducted in the UK, to someone in Thailand, is it assessable income for me in Thailand? I think the issue here is it's only assessable in Thailand under the DTA if I remit it to myself in Thailand, the gift was made in the UK and assessable for UK tax only. I hope!

Expanding on this, a tax resident foreigner who spends 5 months a yar in his home country with his wife, sends her 20M baht as a present in (say) Sweden to her bank in Sweden whilst staying there. She subsequently brings it to Thailand, I can't see gifts acquired overseas being subject to Thai tax.