JBChiangRai

I suspect “up to 18 months” is really one or two cars that they couldn’t start.

If you don’t invest in the new market, you can always do well until the market IS the new market and then you have nothing to sell.

And I give 3 eggs to my grandma, how many eggs do I have left?

I used 5,000 miles/year for EV average milage or 414 miles/month. Bear with me for the mix of units, but there is a good reason for that. Using the autolife registration numbers, each vehicle then gets full milage for the month of registrations. An EV registered in January 2022 have done (28 month + 16.5 days) x 414 miles. A February 2022 registrations gets 27 montsh and so forth. Vehicles registered in 2020 and 2021 starts from mid year, as I don't have monthly registrations data. Vehicles registered prior to 2020 are not included, again because I don't have the data.

You obviously didn’t see the post about Legacy automakers funding lobbying and other activities to impede the uptake of EV’s? Japan was the worst and in Japan Toyota was top. Toyota’s Hybrid marketing slogan… ”Self Charging EV’s” Ugh ppplleeaassee!

Are you sure my number is way off? I wager it’s as accurate as yours.

Have you personally verified this? I heard it was actually 310,685,596 miles.

I have said many times Toyota is anti-EV spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about EV’s or promising something better soon in the hope of slowing down uptake, and I have been called out by Vinny I think it was. It’s good to see my claims corroborated.

Actually, she said her name was Fred. She has the deepest voice I’ve ever known, and I’ve never seen stubble on a woman’s chin before.

Assuming the quality and design is good, uptake of EV’s is ALL about the price. You have only to look at Thailand to see that. The video Transam posted talks about America, EV’s carry a 30-50% premium over their ICE equivalents, very few people will pay that. Applying 100% tariffs to Chinese EV’s allows American Automakers to not need to compete so they will continue to produce crappy, expensive EV’s and as a consequence EV transition will stall, maybe temporarily, maybe not. Let’s see what happens.

“The mark of a man is two-fold, his willingness to apologize when he’s wrong, and how he treats his subordinates” JBChiangRai 2024, assisted by a Long Island Iced Tea in the swimming pool in Hoi An.

You might laugh, Chiang Rai has a beach, it’s called Chiang Rai Beach funnily enough, and it’s a large sandy beach on the river. We have homes in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, in my household we all prefer Chiang Rai, it’s a lot cooler and far less traffic and we have some excellent restaurants there.

Oh yes they do! Oh no they don't! Pantomime season came early this year.

I think most EV owners in Thailand are thoroughly delighted with their choices, I migrated from PHEV to EV and am now on my second full EV

I am not surprised. What did you go for?

So we average 41 deaths per day for the year and the dangerous days are nearly a 25% improvement at only 32.

Close, I think we all know the answer, it's an old joke

What's the difference between an old BMW 5 Series with performance stickers on it and a hedgehog?

I always use my Thai 5 year licence to rent cars in the UK.

Very strange that there are 2 rollaway beds under the stairs and a lobby sign outside

And it's also most likely on a fake red plate

It is a fairly common assumption in most tax authorities that a gift must be for the use of the person to whom they are gifted. If you receive some benefit from them you must be able to defend it, and defend it from tax evasion, which it is if you did it to avoid tax and intended to benefit from. For example, if you gift the money to your wife, and you both live off it and you appear to have no income then the tax authorities would say it is not a real gift. There is another issue with gifts in Thailand, they can be reclaimed, and since married couples are treated as a special case, you would be advised to take professional advice. I would point you at Mike Lister's excellent practical tax guide on this forum, you will need to find it yourself, but the appropriate part is 65) Two additional points on this subject are: 1) Funds that are gifted, must be for the use of the person to whom they are gifted. If you care to give me some details of your specific case, I will try and help you more accurately.

I get that regularly too, I wonder what happens if you click the link?

Thailand - Individual - Income determination (pwc.com)

I apologise I mistook you for the poster of that video. Actually, I do know quite a bit about Winston Sterzel (aka SerpentZA) as when that video first appeared many months ago, I researched it, him and his background as well as doing a bias analysis on him. I think we had that video posted 3 or more times now.