TronxII

I've had the same thoughts, and a couple of weeks ago, I joined the neta V facebook group. Its all in thai, but you can accept automatic translation. And actually I've changed ideas about the neta v. Not that I'm against repairing cars myself, but not even the dealers or service agents can get spare parts. Also there seem to be multiple failures in the same car, starting from inside door knobs cracking off, until water in the gear box oil? do they have gear boxes? aircon seems to break in all of them.

Looks like they liked your promotion video and they are asking for more. I would spend a couple of hours learning basic video editing and make them another one with " Bluetech warranty scam..." yellow title in the picture ... That's probably the only thing you can do. But maybe you can become a youtube star and get your money back in this way. Thanks for letting us know about this company. As this gentleman said:

Seems a pocket car for the price of a netaV, not gonna come to TH.

I wonder if in Thailand mealworm is allowed to be mixed into bread, cheese, fruits etc. like it is now in the EU. To increase health and wellbeing of EU citizens, and as there has always been a high demand of mealworm powder, the EU clowns have legalized upto 4% of mealworm in bread, and other foods. Here is the link to the EU bulletin: 2025/89 of 20 January 2025 authorising the placing on the market of UV-treated powder of whole Tenebrio molitor larvae (yellow mealworm) as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32025R0089 Long time ago they would have closed a bakery, if they had found such worms in the bread. But now are new times and new regulations.

With the picture of the corrosion, they should not have asked for more. These companies fear social media posts. If you could make a shake free video with a tripod, you would get some thumbs up and comments.

Yeah, thanks, that seems good! The first post I saw has a towbar.

Yeah seems the right way of thinking. The kWh is your Diesel. For 10L of Diesel or for 20kWh you can drive 100km. Tiny cars might take a bit less, you will figure it out when you have yours and how it will perform with your driving style. Maybe you drive slowly, then you can do 100km with 12kWh or 7L of Diesel. And solar on your house is just the next logic step. Because you want free Diesel.

Have you played with LiFePo4, especially the bigger cells, and brand new cells? You might be surprised how lightweight and how much less volume they have, compared to the same capacity as lead acid . My guess is that the same weight of LiFePo4 would give you maybe 4times the range of lead. The reason is that with LiFePo4 you can really use 80% of the capacity where lead will be destroyed very fast if you do this too often. What you might wish to stay away from is second hand LiFePo4 from Aliexpress or Lazada. These cells are half dead and each cell is different from the others, resulting in need for heavy balancing. But new CATL or similar brand cells directly from China are a good option and the price has dropped significantly. If the vehicle can run on lead acid, it can run on LiFePo4. With double the capacity of the LiFePo4 (because they are smaller and weigh only half) , your current draw would not stress these cells to a level where cooling is required. If this was the case, then your lead acid would already be boiling.

Yeah this is very cruel to take dogs instead of horses 🙂 . You should go electric LOL

Does this have a LiFePo4 battery? What specs do they provide for it? How long does it charge and what type of charger do you have?

No subsidy, but they can provide a pickup for under 1M. I expected people to jump on any electric pickup, but this seems not the case. Diesel seems still too cheap at 40B and a pickup only takes 10L/100km LOL. I suppose the BYD shark will also not be produced in TH.

Seems ok for short trips. How is this seen legally by the Thai? Is this the same like these motorbike tricycles which are kind of illegal but nobody cares? There however I assume that most of them have an insurance for the motorbike.

Yeah this is what wife says, can just let them deliver the stuff. Therefore the little digger... gives a reason for the Pickup 🙂 By the way, the excavator in the picture is also electric. 60k B , but they want 160kB delivery from China LOL.

Yeah, actually this gives a good reason to buy the Riddara. The aim is to get half a palette of concrete blocks and some cement, 2m solar panels etc. from time to time. A trailer would be nice here. Also I feel the need for one of these little diggers. They weigh from 550kg + . Let's hope 2025 is as bad for EV as the previous year, with another big round of price cuts.

Does anyone have seen or heard about tow bars for trailers on any of the more budget like EVs? I know that the Thai don't use trailers that much, but maybe some rural area guy would have this? Most likely the BYD shark would have this option, but even the Riddara pickup would still be at the very upper end of my budget. Therefore the most reasonable option for me would be some Neta, Dolphin or so with a tow bar and a trailer which I would bring from europe.

If these knife switches are not to your liking, you could use any type of switch, however not directly to switch the motor, because these little ones would just burn away at the first switch off when an arc is created because of the DC. If you want tiny switches like this, you would need some electronics like big 200V mosfet transistors to do the switching. These electronics, would go into a little box and the tiny switch outside is basically giving only a signal to the electronics. With inductive loads like pump motors, the electronics quickly become complicated because they need to be protected against voltage spikes produced at turn off. I'm not sure if anything of this type is available commercially at a reasonable price.

The original switch looks solid for 12A DC at 72V. Maybe you could also say what type of switch you would prefer for your wife. Maybe you like a push button, then you can have it, but need a kind of solid state relay in a little box.

I have the same question as carlyai. But you guys in the EV forum are always so focused on cars rather than electrical questions ... May I ask what is the reason you kept the car charger on single phase? I'm thinking of a car port the style Crossy has built. So seeing these 3 phase inverters now being not much more expensive than single phase, I thought this has advantages if you parallel 2-3 of them. The currents on the AC side would be in a region I'm comfortable with, where with 10+ kW on single phase seems already a bit high for me.

It looks nice, until the point where he shows the voltages of the cells. 500mV difference I would not really want in my battery pack. And yeah, you can balance them, just to see them drift away again at each charge and discharge... On top of this, these cells are LiPo chemistry or similar. For the price you can get new LiFepo4 cells, thermic recycling for these MG cells would probably be the best option. In the worst case, these unmatched cells will initiate their own thermic recycling inside your home.

OMG, these things look like even uglier copies of SSangyong Rhodius. Any european would buy this?

But these guys with their hopelessly overloaded 25 years old Toyota pickups might not be the primary target for the EV pickup manufacturers. There are many "normal" people doing their 50 to 100km per day through the city, shopping and restaurant trips by pickup. And personally I feel much safer in the Hilux than in the Dolphin because of the car size and elevated position. I'm curious as to what the price of the BYD pickup will be.

Well, this type of pickup would consume like 10L of Diesel on 100km where your ZS maybe 6L if it had a Toyota or western made Diesel engine. This part seems ok for me. But what looks strange to me, is that 10kWh more battery would give 90km more range, where 64kWh only give 373km. Not sure if it's worth the 100k more for the 10kWh battery.

Am I the first one to provide the price for the Liddala? I was waiting for the 29.10. to know the selling price.

Well indeed, it seems possible to fly that high with propellers. the Helios Prototype piloted remotely by Greg Kendall reached an altitude of 96,863 feet (29,524 m),

Could any of the aeronautical experts explain how this thing flies at 65 000 feet? Solar powered jets? I thought there is little air up there for propeller planes to fly. big H2 balloons under the wings?