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If you had done any research, you would know that probably the most important selling point for Tesla in the U.S. at the moment is their charging network. While all EVs (except for Nissan Leafs) can use the CCS network, only Teslas can use the Tesla network. And the CCS network in the U.S. is now so bad, that Ford, General Motors, BMW, Fisker, Hyundai (incl. Kia and Genesis), Rivian, Volvo (incl. Polestar) all have made strategic decisions to change their cars sold in the U.S. from CCS to the NACS standard and enter into agreements with Tesla allowing them to use the Tesla charging network. Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche etc.) are considering doing the same and have reached out to Tesla for initial discussions. But that won't happen until sometime in 2024 or 2025, so for now non Tesla EV owners in the U.S. have major problems with unreliable charging when on road trips.

If you also arrive in Thailand on November 23rd and leave on February 21st, you will be in Thailand for 91 days. So a single Non O will leave you one day short.

I haven't used the PEA Volta app yet, but these are the payment option for topping up the balance on your account: After selecting payment method you then get these options for top up amount:

With Elexa you pay after the charging is finished so you know the exact amount you are paying .I don't know what they will do if you fail to pay, the first time I almost drove away without paying because I assumed they would just debit the card I had registered with them. You can pay via QR, bank transfer or with a credit/debit card you have saved in the app.

I used my Bangkok Bank MasterCard debit card. When I signed up for Elexa, the app didn't accept that card so I used my foreign MJC debit card, but with Elexa you don't need to use a card for payment, as they also have the option of QR code payment and bank transfer.

If you don't mind me asking, why are you moving your account to a new broker? Did something happen so that AA is no longer working as a broker for April policies, if so I haven't heard anything about that yet?

0.04k is 40 Baht.

Your last paragraph doesn't make much sense. A reentry permit is always valid for the same time as your current permission to stay, and your permission to stay can never be longer than the validity of your passport. So the validity of your passport will always be long enough to cover the period the reentry permit will be valid for.

I just signed up to PTT's EV Pluz a few days ago, and the app happily accepted the non-Thai ID number I received when getting the Covid vaccinations.

I agree with you, that the problem will not be if you are actually going to owe taxes to Thailand, but rather what kind of documentation will be required from you to prove that you aren't liable for taxes. Thailand has double taxation agreements with most major countries. The content varies from country to country, but one recurring theme is that you will not have to pay "double tax". So if an income stream is taxable in both Thailand and your home country, then you will get a tax rebate in Thailand for the tax you have paid in your home country (or vice versa). Since the taxation in most of our home countries are more severe than the taxation in Thailand, very few of us will actually have to pay taxes here, but what kind of documentation will be required by the Thai revenue department to prove that? They will not be able to read or understand our home country tax forms/receipts, so they will probably ask for all kinds of translations and certifications to be supplied from our home country RD and/or embassies here in Thailand - documentation that you probably won't be able to get. We all know how ill thought out changes to the immigration requirements are. Does anyone really think that the implementation of this spur of the moment change without any previous studies performed will be any different? It will be a nightmare for the average expat to supply whatever documents the Thai revenue department decides it needs to prove that you don't owe tax here. Personally, I retired here in 2010 and have had no income since then other than some capital gains and negligible tax income, all of which has been declared and taxed according to my home country's tax rules. So in reality I have been living on savings amassed during my working life, savings from income that have already been heavily taxed. But how am I supposed to prove that to the Thai tax authorities? If they go through with this change, then it will be a nightmare for anyone living here and making regular transfers to cover their living expenses. I already have funds here in Thailand and will transfer more this year to make sure that I have enough to live on for at least a few years, until they realize that what they propose in unworkable.

Yeah, we had a pole a couple of meters inside our fence line as well, and leaning to boot. Took about a year and three or four visits to the PEA office to get them to move it.

I believe it's possible to bypass the waiting period by having a doctor confirm that the GF isn't pregnant.

Having his name on the birth certificate doesn't make him the legal father. He would be, if he was married to the mother, but since he isn't his parenthood has to be legally established. If the child was old enough, that could be done fairly easily by the child confirming that he is his/her father. But since that is not possible, he would need the court to confirm that he is the father (which requires DNA test etc.). Alternatively, he can wait until he can marry the mother, which would automatically make him the legal father.

Is he married to the mother?

In Bangkok and surrounding area. The diesel/gasoline price goes up the longer away from Bangkok you get to compensate for the cost of transport.

I'm pretty sure that the green you can see over his right shoulder is the top of a water bottle.

From the article:

Already posted here:

You seem confused, now you are talking about a fixed term account, which as you mention is immediately accessible. But in your previous post you were asking about having the funds in an account that is not accessible.

If the fixed term account is not immediately accessible, then it won't count at all in Immigration matters. So whether you will be granted the extension will depend entirely on if your "day to day living expenses" account comply with the 800k/400k requirements.

I forgot to say that the OP can deposit his money into a standard 24 month fixed deposit with Krungsri, which pays 1.95% p.a. Of course, that would not be tax free, so 15% tax would be deducted, but the tax could be reclaimed from the Revenue Department (if he has no other significant income).

Yes, but the OP is not talking about a standard fixed deposit account, which would not be tax free. The tax free time deposit account he is talking about is one of the savings deposit type accounts, where you have to deposit the same amount every month for the term of the account. From Krungsri's website: So this account cannot be used to deposit the OP's 800k, since the maximum allowed deposit per month is THB 25,000.

What exactly do you mean, when you say?: Unless that confirmation is issued by your country's embassy in Thailand, it will not be accepted by Immigration.

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/society/2724202

That is not entirely accurate. Most EV's will start limiting the available power well before you enter turtle mode, but generally it will only start being noticeable when you get down to around 20% state of charge. If you watch TeslaBjorn's videos, you will have seen him doing 0-100 km/h tests at different levels of state of charge. These are the results from his spreadsheet: As you can see, the acceleration times generally starts going up noticeable when reaching 20-30% SOC, but for some models like the ID4 the times slowly creeps up starting as high as 70% SOC.