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Not really a solution, but I use to rub it with powder - at least it removes the stikieness. We always have a lot of powder around, my wife puts it on the body, and then distributes it throughout the house :-(.

OMG I was looking for this one range 131km, price 1.1M. Well still they sold 2 or 3 in 2025. Maybe they said if Toyota can offer a pickup with under 300km range, we can do even better.

Yeah, the 63kWh version will not even make 300km range. But it's a positive sign that they reduce price. I like the steel rims of the econ instead of the alloys.

That's a shame. Is there an app where you can see individual cell voltages? This would interest me the most when buying a battery pack.

Still a bit pricy for a 2 door pickup that Foton.

Fully agree, and the Riddara does not sell that well. Lets see how much Toyota can sell for 180% of the price and worse specs. And then the name... let me drive you in my Travelo omg

Maybe they do like Mercedes does in Europe. Take a Renault and put a Mercedes sticker on it, or put Renault Motors into the base line Mercedes cars. So why not putting a Toyota sticker on a BYD in Thailand, seems logic to me. It would probably be a better option than to buy a "real" Toyota electric prototype thing.

Welcome to my world. I know that you are also looking at the Riddara6, but something feels not right. I think it's the price. In their Riddara facebook group, they are celebrating every sale they make, but the people do not look very happy in the pictures. Now I have found the ideal car, but unfortunately this seems to be vaporware. Has anyone ever seen one or heard about it? from their website: ... enters the Thai market in its REEV PLUS AWD variant, priced at 1,099,000 baht. The DEEPAL HUNTER K50 is now available for booking, with deliveries scheduled to commence from 30 April 2025, blablabla, That feels like 1 year ago. Do they really exist in TH?

Sorry for my ignorance but you seem already a bit ahead with this stuff. Do you have to chose the DC voltage, or "could" you chose it on the charger display or in the car? I'm thinking if the cars have a DC/DC converter integrated which would work from 150V upwards, then the step to connect it to a solar array would not be that far. The only issue I see here is the variation when there are clouds passing then the array cannot provide the current the thing has negotiated in the beginning.

The 63kWh version for 900k can only drive about 300km in real life- not great, then the 73kWh version for 1M will bring you maybe 60km further. Compared to the newer suvs for 5-600 k the Riddara feels now a bit expensive, just a year after launch. With no service points outside of BKK, not sure how they would repair these. I was considering the Riddara, but now I'm thinking for that price, maybe better to buy 2x cheapo cars like the Jaecoo5. I just don't want a Neta V experience with a 1M car.

Is that the rebranded BYD or is it something really from Toyota? and then, what price, 2.5M LOL? Maybe the japanese are clever and wait a bit. They could buy some chinese manufacturers when these get into financial trouble, and get all the technology and workforce for cheap.

Outside looks cool like an older Camry. But the inside cannot compete.

The car charger measures the resistance between car and GND somehow. You will need to ground your charger somewhere anyway if you wanna charge your car.

I wish you a lot of luck , but personally I have trouble following the logic: netaV II new 299k - buy a 2 year old one with potential problems and known quality problems from a bankrupt manufacturer for 219 k? the next guy: MG EP - new 469k - recommends to buy a 2 year old one for 350k? Over 300 netas sold in june 2025 after the headquarter closed and removed the company sign. Do westerners adapt to the thai thinking after several years in the country?

Oh no, don't do roof rack. I had one when we had babies and the diesel car would consume 20% more. It was cheaper to buy again the products you would put in the roof rack than paying for the extra diesel. And with electric it would also reduce the range.

too expensive. Riddara RD6 now for 720 000. Other models also down 150 000. They promised they would not reduce price. But nobody said that they would not sell "second hand" show room cars with a discount. Apparently there is also a cheaper model expected at the end of the year.

Might be the last ones which will still operate after a couple of high altitude nuclear tests wipe out some of the satellites. We take these satellites for granted like we believed that electric power, security, peace, cheap food and progress would always be there. But big parts of Europe have already no more GPS over the baltic sea, the electric grid breaks down, riots ...

Today I modified my antenna, which was horizontal strips of 0.2mm thick and about 1cm large. My idea was that the signal comes from above and therefore I turned them horizontal. It seems however that this was not a good idea. In vertical position, a noaa15 pass was received better than the days before. Comparing the satellite picture on the right with the commercial weather radar website picture on the left, I would say, there is even more information in the noaa15 picture. Still my antenna setup is not optimal. I'm not getting the nice signal in the waterfall like you posted in the other thread. So here is a picture how the antenna should not be positioned - horizontally, but the metal strip should be turned 90°

This reminds me of the weather report pictures from the early 1980s in TV, they had such pressure maps.

Not sure anymore what satellite the previous picture was. The generated json always says noaa15, no matter which one passes. Thanks for the website, with this I could capture an 80° elevation pass of noaa19 today. However it gave me only a useful signal when the satellite was quite high, like above 30° it started to decode. Only received some clouds in Antarctica LOL. Means my antenna is suboptimal. I'll try to play around with this antenna first, and then maybe the bandfilter with amplifier from Aliexpress. But over 20€ each! Glad that I'm not a HF affectionate, this must be quite an expensive hobby. I saw passive ones with only RLC which cost around 5€. That's tempting, but for 5$ I could order 5 PCB in China and make it myself ... Would be a good justification to buy a set of smd inductors.

Why is this?

On facebook they posted screenshots of second hand Neta V in china, all sell around 60 - 80 kBaht. So there is still a lot of room for discounted netas. 300k for a car without warranty, spare parts and service points but with a history of failures in all components ... not sure how many they will sell at this price

I'm in Spain. My antenna was a dipol for 162MHz, now I cut new metal strips and checked resonance at 137 MHz with a VNA. Its probably the best I can get before making such a complicated antenna like yours. With the new antenna, there is sufficient signal. The signal can be seen in the waterfall right and left to the actual frequency, and audio can be heard. This was not the case with my old antenna. The pictures of the clouds only are not that interesting, but the satellite also measures infrared or something and then colors the rain clouds. These are really nice. Thanks for your help with this, and I put my antenna here not because it's beautiful, but that others will be encouraged to try. Its minimal effort to make one.

OK thank you for the instructions. Following these guidelines, I did receive something from noaa15, although no idea where this is, and no idea, if this picture is from the satellite or if this is some map overlay from the software. The next satellite noaa19 gave some islands which I cannot identify either. Therefore I imagine that "3 - Your antenna is not suitable (what antenna are you using?)" is the next thing to address. I'm using a dipole built some time ago for 162MHz for AIS ship position, which worked well for that purpose. So the SDR and cables might be good and I'll remake the dipole next.

Could you have a look how your waterfall compares to mine? I seem to get a weak signal, and sometimes it decodes, but I feel there is something missing. This morning, I also had the automatic thing connecting when the satellite passed, but only grey in the decoded picture. At the moment I think, maybe my signal is too weak?