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Along with allowing the public to use, as most owners may be a work, so not charging. Really is loss opportunities. Especially in the metros, where condos and the need for more chargers is greater. When we go to BKK to visit daughter, we stop outside of, on hwy 35, and top up, if not and usually earlier Don't want to 'need' to top up in the city, and we usually need to stop anyway. Although we don't need to top up before we get to her condo or hotel. Just easier to plug in when we do stop, as that's inevitable before we get there, just for a P and a munch, since 285 kms & 4 ish hrs away.

Nah, not confused at all. But condos have options, you might not know about. It wouldn't cost condos anything to provide charging cables. No, not for individual owners, but maybe one DC w/2 cables, since only taking <1 hr to charge, most 30 minutes to top up weekly for local driving. Management could set up owners schedule slots. After that, 1st come 1st served. Although the way insurance companies at treating EV, price gouging of 'false' danger of, condos might not want to deal with increased insurance for public areas. Can't blame them. And really unnecessary, though would be convenient for EV owners. Now the minority, which will change, as will many condo policies, when EV start getting near the majority of vehicles. EV chargers available would be a good selling point for condos in the very near future. It would certainly sway my decision if looking to buy or rent a condo. One poster stating his condo doesn't even allow EV ... I smell BS

Whoa ... that's one sad A$$ pension, 22k THB a month, that doesn't even qualify for a marriage visa. Yea, you better hang out in AU. That's a no brainer, unless you just want to exist here in TH. Though, that seems like you're just existing in AU on that pittance. Good Luck.

I really do think the price war is just about over. Anything new, will be bigger battery and or faster charging. Or more silly bells & whistles people just don't need. BEV are already cheaper and perform better than entry level, 'made in TH' ICEV, and hybrids come in at the same price as import ICEV. Any more of a price war is simply cutting each other's throat. Less than 600k THB for good transport is a silly low price. There's even a nice BEV truck for <900k THB.

Elexa with partner with condos, and install charging cables for free. I've used Elexa at coffe shops & restaurants while O&A. People are running out of real reasons not to go BEV, though provide plenty of excuses. Performance & savings is too much of a reason for us, not to go BEV. The convenience of never going to the local petrol station every week, to pay extra, to degrade the engine parts pretty much tops everything. You waiting in line, to pay, to use a fuel that degrades your engine. Let that one sink in. And for us, it's a special trip, (3 kms) as the petrol station isn't in our usual daily drive. 15-20 mins a week vs 1 min a week ... hmm, let me think about that

Or charge at the Mall while shopping or the many Lotus's that have charging cables. Not being able to charge at home wouldn't be an issue for myself, as we're at Swensen's a couple times a month (2 for 1 Tuesdays) and that's at the Lotus's mall with has charging cables. At home, we rarely use the wall charger, and most charging is done with the granny / emergency charger, which plugs into any house outlet. Draws about the same as the microwave or oven, 2.3 kWh. Our solar won't handle the wall charger @ 7.4 kWh, so we rarely use it. 6 hrs of Solar charging supplies about 13kWh or 100 kms, and I drive 8-15 kms of unnecessary driving a day

I get called a right winger all the time, because I like Trump. Not his policies, just that he pissed everyone else off. I don't think I'm neither, left nor right, and think socialism & democracy can co-exist. Apparently I'm a very slight right leaning liberal, since believing in free market, and less social programs for employable people. https://aseannow.com/topic/1334208-where-do-you-place-yourself-politically/page/2/#findComment-19108512

Ms Googlw says you can get business visa & work permit using YT as your business, as long as you generate enough income to support yourself in TH. What they consider that amount is, I'm not sure. Visa for marriage is ฿40k a month, retirement ฿65k a month. I don't think some teachers make much more than ฿40k a month. My YT channel can be monetized, and YT informed of such. Have the subscriber numbers, but not really the constant views or hrs of, to make barely the minimum. so I don't bother. Only 1 vid generated high views. Although I do barely make 100 hrs a month of viewing, since that one dropped off. Along with, I just don't want to work and need to make new content, as the channel is really just for me. No desire to attract the attention of any taxman either, since not needing the money. My highest views, so nothing special, except the one. And the rest drop off fast. No target audience, as I'm all over the place, food, travel, drones, birds. Channel would only generate $100-$200 a month, by my calculation.

That didn't take long, in the Gazette Wednesday, busted Wednesday

You need a business visa, and a work permit. Just as important, you need a monetized YT channel. Which doesn't happen till you have 1000 subscribers. You could be incognito, but would need to qualify for visa. Need to be 50 yrs old, with some type of income, for visa for retirement. Guessing you are not 50 yrs old. LTR VISA & ELITE VISA which takes more money than most have or want to spend.

An agreed upon peace, instead of the now inevitable surrender with more loss of life on both sides. Personally, it think he's just holding on to power as long as possible (elections banned) until he can squirrel away millions more USD. He's an actor, a puppet of the EU, playing a president, while the generals do what they do, send others to die. All while 100's of billions are given to him.

Actually, that's a NZ green mussel, along with squid & shrimp. Khee mao, I think. Maybe seasoned with subtle amount of garlic, chilis & etc, since delicate seafood and don't want to over power it with spices. Actually an oversized bowl, so may be more depth to it than appears. A tasty dish when I don't see anything else on menu that excites.

A few Openbill Storks cutting across the surf's sky, while on our way back from morning walk surfside, photos you've seen already ... ... by time stopped MB and got phone out, they were some distance away Quite large if you're not familiar with them ...

Nothing like exploiting desperate people. Except for one thing, the desperate ones, are mostly coming across and going right to the refugee camps on the border. If even allowed in. The ones ending up as laborers, are probably being trafficked in, through the border check points. Complain about corruption & trafficking, until it benefits you 👍

Hey ... watch it buddy 😁 Is there something wrong with thses:

~฿5.5 to ฿8 / kWh, unless at a high end place, (ICONSIAM) then possibly ฿10 / kWh. Posted this earlier, elsewhere, and a price comparison of savings for the home owner, charging at home, where most do charge: https://aseannow.com/topic/1246109-ice-vs-ev-the-debate-thread/page/106/#findComment-19895746 Price comparison at CS 46.3 X ฿5.5 = ฿255 46.3 X ฿8 = ฿371 Petrol cost = ฿941

I think you are asking at the wrong place. Describe 'modest', and a modest westerner's income, isn't a modest Thai's income. Technically, a westerner can't live at a Thai's modest income in TH, unless using an agent to skirt the financials for a visa. With that, probably no different than what most G20 country citizens think of poor immigrants living in their neighborhood, though suspect Thais would treat folks far better. I'll await the next thread so folks can belittle Thais. 3 new ones in just over an hour.

Gmaps is OK, but can' keep up with all the new ones CS (charging stations) that are popping up all the time. As mentioned, non vendor apps, 'PlugShare' and 'ChargeLoma' are good, but still not as good as vendor apps. We use EV Station Pluz, almost exclusively, as located at PTT Parks. Since O&A (out & about), nice to have clean toilet, 7-11, food court, maybe a KFC available, along with usual independent vendors, when stopping for whatever reason. Usually toilet use, or a munch after a few hours on the road, so simply plug in while there. Stated more than a few times, O&A quite a bit, the whole country, and yet to not have CS available along our routes. No real need to detour to charge up.

Last year had a couple major price drops, along with sale price. Our 2022 ZS @ ฿949k dropped to ฿829k, I think. Our write off price now is ฿590, 2 yr 9 moths old. Strangely the first 2 years, the insured write off was more than the price of a new one the first year, and ฿10k less than the price of new, the 2nd year. At present, that's ~28% depreciation, from current new price, and we're shy of 3 yrs old. Call that about 10% a year. If using purchase price, then ~38% depreciation. Not bad considering the past 2 years of price war. A bit different from that 50% in 2 yrs, that someone was talking about, for a car coming up on 3 yrs old. Go figure. Depreciation irrelevant for us, as we'd never sell it. Or another statement someone posted, that MG, which has a factory in TH, supplying SEA & beyond with vehicles, won't be around in TH very long. Just silly statements from the haters. Not to mention MG's parent company SAIC is one of the 'Big Four' state owned auto makers of CN. Sale price for the ZS of ฿599 mentioned more than a few times, but don't know or read of anyone that actually got one, or if ฿599k for any special reason (Sales rep or demo cars ???). At that price, the sales numbers would have skyrocketed, and yet the opposite has happened, ZS is far from being in demand, and sales are dismal. Probably why it will be discontinued, and reincarnated as a hybrid, or so rumored.

2 new Thai bashing threads started within the past hour. Nothing changes here 😎

2 thoughts ... 'daily beast' ... Do people over 65, really need a tax benefit if earning $75k. Their house should be paid for, no kids at home. I never had a salaried job over $50k, and people working that same job now, aren't making $60k a year. Having mortgage / rent payments and possibly kids at home.

Surely wouldn't have anything to do with a company facing bankruptcy I doubt very much other BEV sold this or next year will be have the large depreciations of the past year or so, due to major price war.

And a favorite at the moment, top 3 sales. You'll be in good company 👍 Our MG ZS has buttons under the display for the usual ICEV functions (window defrosters, AC fan, etc).

Remove 'govt agency', and now you know how we feel ... I didn't receive anything, but pretty sure I'm not on any govt mailing list. The less contact with any govt, the better.