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If the person who has booked a time slot does "not" begin charging within 5 minutes of the reservation start time then that reservation slot is lost (along with the reservation fee) and changes to available for walk-in. That is, a walk-in could pull-in, hook-up and use the slot. Like if I had a 7:00 to 7.27 slot but didn't arrive/begin charging with 7:00-7:05 then "after" 7:05 that slot changes to available for walk-in (i.e., I lost the reservation). Do a google translate on the portion of the image below which has the stopwatch

Wow....great minds (in our own minds) think alike. I set my app to look very similar as the other icons that come default on the main screen will be rarely, or maybe even never, used. The only difference is where you have the Seats icon (which I don't have for my Atto) I have the Doors and Windows icon. Yeap....keeping the main page simple.

A 25 April 2025 article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/25/auto-evs-trump-china-electric/ Trump is trashing electric vehicles. China is building cars the world wants. China dominates global EV sales, while U.S. consumers risk getting stuck on an island of outdated technology. Updated April 25, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. EDTyesterday at 9:00 a.m. EDT 10 min (Illustration by Anna Lefkowitz/The Washington Post; iStock) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/washpost/2c17522a-fa2b-45f6-919e-fab15fdeda9f.png&h=196&w=196 By Evan Halper Michael Bickford was excited to get behind the wheel of a Ford F-150 Lightning, but after experiencing the dismal state of the U.S. charging network on a recent road trip, the Portland, Maine, retiree reconsidered. “I had planned to go fully electric, but I gave up on that when the realities of how difficult that would be here set in,” said Bickford, who is sticking with his hybrid. After pulling his name off the list for the plug-in pickup, he’s holding out for the day the United States catches up to China. He’s in for a long wait. China is leapfrogging the United States with the availability of more advanced, cheaper electric vehicles, while President Donald Trump is cutting subsidies and making other moves that could leave the U.S. behind. The president’s antipathy toward plug-ins, combined with the U.S. domestic auto industry’s slow rollout of new clean-energy vehicles, is frustrating U.S. motorists who hunger for clean transportation. “You read about the cars and charging systems they are making in China and think to yourself, ‘Geez, why don’t we have that here?’” Bickford said. Trump has declared that the Biden administration’s support for electric cars was a Marxist “hoax” that hurt U.S. autoworkers. He is freezing billions of dollars of spending on electric vehicle infrastructure, ripping out charging stations in government buildings, and reversing regulations that incentivize automakers to focus on plug-in innovation. Subsidies for factories that make batteries and other parts have been blocked, triggering a wave of canceled projects. Tax breaks of $7,500 for purchasing plug-ins are targeted for elimination, although Congress will be required to act on the president’s request. Amid the president’s trade war, meanwhile, Chinese electric cars are unlikely to roll into the United States anytime soon. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, an oil executive before his nomination, said in a speech last month that the administration’s plan is “to reverse the destructive mandates, forcing everyone to buy EVs that have been wreaking havoc on our auto industry and forcing higher prices and reduced choices on consumers.” He and Trump argue the policy reversals will usher in a renaissance for U.S. automakers, now free to focus on the gas cars that still generate the bulk of their profits. But the policy will also ensure the U.S. remains behind in the global EV race. Of the more than 17 million EVs sold in 2024 around the world, according to the China Passenger Car Association and research firm Rho Motion, 76 percent of those cars were made by Chinese companies. The same U.S. auto companies that for years complained vocally about aggressive government actions aimed at speeding the transition to EVs now worry damage from federal abandonment of the transition will be long-lasting. “We are all going to EVs globally. It is just a question of when,” said Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, a former chief global economist at Ford. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the industry group representing all the major U.S. vehicle manufacturers, urged Trump in a November letter to preserve the tax breaks for EV buyers and emissions rules that push automakers to innovate and sell electric models. Plug-in technology is advancing so rapidly, with longer battery ranges and expanding charging networks, that analysts expect consumer preference for the cars to eventually overtake that of gas vehicles. It all puts an industry crucial to the U.S. economy in a precarious place, with analysts warning there is only so long U.S. auto giants can rely on tariffs to wall consumers off from Chinese offerings. Europe has already bent to consumer demand, with drivers eagerly buying up reliable EVs with sticker prices as low as $20,000 from red-hot Chinese EV makers like BYD, short for “Build Your Dreams.” Last month, BYD announced it had fulfilled a dream of many motorists by unveiling electric cars that could be fully charged in five minutes. The starting price of the new fast-charging BYD cars sold in China is under $28,600, more than 10 percent cheaper than a Tesla Model 3 there. “If those products were to come to the U.S., the auto industry here would be in deep trouble,” said Alexander Edwards, president of Strategic Vision, a market research firm that advises automakers. They could lure masses of motorists who right now have no interest in going electric, he said. Electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrids, now account for 19 percent of all cars sold worldwide, up from just 4 percent five years ago. Chinese models account for 17 of the 20 top-selling plug-ins globally, according to CleanTechnica. The only U.S. company that ranks on that list is Tesla, and it is fast losing market share. Tesla vehicle deliveries plunged 13 percent the first quarter this year. In Brazil, where Ford has stopped making cars altogether, its former factory is now owned by BYD, which dominates the country’s fledgling but fast-growing EV market. Sales of EVs in Brazil grew 85 percent in 2024. A local lawmaker wants to change the name of the street where the factory sits from Henry Ford Avenue to BYD Avenue. BYD and other Chinese EV companies are steadily growing their market share in Europe, with BYD building a plant in Hungary and other Chinese brands eyeing factories in Poland and Spain. “We’re on an island, vulnerable and not playing offense anymore,” Michael Dunne, a prominent auto industry consultant, said at a recent Washington gathering of energy and Western auto officials hosted by SAFE, a nonprofit focused on U.S. energy security. “We cannot remain on this island here in North America and just hope for the best.” Detroit executives, criticized for years for focusing on gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks, are now trying to catch up while navigating the shifting winds from Washington. Soon after the president signed an order directing a pivot away from EVs, Ford CEO Jim Farley was warning shareholders that the company needs to urgently lean in on electric. He highlighted in a call how motorists around the world are rapidly shifting to EVs and markets where American vehicles were long king are now being “dominated by the Chinese.” Farley himself had a Xiaomi electric car delivered from Shanghai to Chicago and drove it for months, telling a podcaster in October how he marvels at this vehicle that was designed and manufactured by a cellphone company. He said Ford is retooling its strategy around EVs with a moonshot-like effort to replicate the Chinese model of innovating cheap, high-tech vehicles in a division walled off from the company’s legacy production lines. General Motors says it is racing to develop a breakthrough in battery technology that would reposition it as a major player in the EV race. Both Ford and GM did not answer detailed questions from The Washington Post. But the companies have consistently said they need to see more U.S. consumer EV demand to expand their offerings. And consumers here often won’t consider them because the U.S. charging network is so bad. Federal investment in U.S. charging infrastructure has been frozen altogether by Trump after the Biden administration was able to deliver only a couple hundred of the half-million chargers it promised by 2030. Tens of thousands of planned chargers may never get installed. China already has nearly 20 public chargers for every one in the United States, and Europe has four times as many chargers as the U.S. Hughes-Cromwick, now a fellow at the center-left think tank Third Way, said her own driving experience underscores what a heavy lift it will be to catch up to China. She said navigating her Ford Mach-E plug-in from Michigan to New Jersey recently was a white-knuckle experience. She repeatedly encountered broken chargers and had to call for help when the plug got stuck in her car at one stop. At a Walmart in Ohio, she was driving circles around the parking lot looking for the charging station her car’s software identified as available, only to learn from a greeter in the store that it had been removed. Hughes-Cromwick had just 20 miles of range left on her battery. She barely made it to a functioning station. “It was unbelievable how bad it was,” she said. “It was a rough start to the trip.” Hughes-Cromwick said the auto manufacturers can fix the charger shortage by following the lead of Tesla, which built its own charging network to conform with the cars it makes. That’s the model used in China, where the car companies operate like government-backed start-ups. But that’s expensive. Tesla lost money for 18 years before making a profit. Sustaining such losses is more difficult for publicly traded, legacy automakers, who face pressure from shareholders to grow quarterly profits. Meanwhile, Trump’s freeze on subsidies is causing companies to abandon plans to build factories making EV components in the U.S. after the administration froze subsidies. Scrapped projects include billion-dollar battery factories in Georgia and Arizona. Even some fans of the president’s industrial policies are unnerved. “It is not good that they have taken some of these steps” to undermine EV sales and innovation, said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. “Car companies are going to have to tell this administration, ‘You will be faced with half-built factories here if you don’t stop this war on clean energy vehicles.’ They will hopefully start to listen. I don’t think this administration wants its legacy to be a landscape where they have vacant plants in places like Tennessee with weeds growing in the parking lot.” The U.S. is beset with finger-pointing. Industry executives and GOP lawmakers say mandates from Democratic administrations and states like California forced automakers to make ill-timed investments, before consumer demand and chargers were in place. “They caused these car companies to lose tens of thousands of dollars per vehicle,” said Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). “They did everything wrong.” As the industry lobbied against a phaseout of the internal combustion engine, China’s government was seeding dozens of EV companies with tens of billions of dollars. “These incredibly cheap, high-quality EVs from China are impossible to match if you don’t have the U.S. government helping manufacturers make this transition,” said Ann Carlson, former chief counsel for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The shortsightedness of the industry in not seeing the trend would be toward electrification has put them in a precarious position. Now, Trump blocking every effort to assist that transition leaves us in a very dicey place.” ********************************

When I saw you could move tabs to the "more functions" page I wondered how you did it because what little bit I had played with the new app version I hadn't figured out how to add anything to that "more options" page. I thought to myself that Andrew might be more "hansum" than me but surely not smarter. 😜 So, I took another look and figured out how a person moves an icon(s) to and/or from that new "more options" page. Just for others who haven't played with the new app version yet, you can not "drag and drop" any icons from the main page to the more options page (you can indeed drag them but they will not stick based on my experience). What I did was first press the "more options" icon, then press "Custom" on that page, then drag down to minimize that page. You will now see the main page icons have red symbol with a minus white dash that wasn't there below.;....and the icons will be shaking a little. Click a red symbol with minus white and it moves from the main page to the More Options page where it will now have a green symbol with plus white sign. You can now either press Completed to finalize the move. Or you can press the green symbol that moves it back to the main page. Or, you can press Restore Default and it moves icons back to their original/default positions....return to go, start all over, nothing gained or loss, etc. . So, this gives a person the option of tailoring the app's main screen to only show the icons that are most important to you....allow you to move less important icons to the More Functions screen. And a person can do all of this without fear of some icon just disappearing forever as a person can just press the Restore Default icon on the More Options page (you may first have to press the Custom icon for the Restore Default icon to appear). All the icons will return to their original, default position without changing anything else in the app.

In your first post/quote there is no mention of the U.S. specifically....it just says merchants registered abroad which could be in "any" country outside Thailand. But in your second post you are now saying "....international(US) actions..." Did the Bangkok Bank response to you actually say "the U.S." anywhere or you are just throwing in the U.S. in which can imply it means the "mean ol' US is causing the problem." While Bangkok Bank may indeed be implementing a new policy regarding overseas online purchases/payments, your problem might be solely related to your debit card account setup especially since others are not having your problem (at least no yet). See below Bangkok Bank webpage/snapshot...call the 1333 number and follow the prompts. Also, check your debt card's authorizations in mbanking under More Services, Card Management, Manage Debit Card, Lock/unlock Debit Card, select the specific card if having more than one acct/card with the bank, and then there are the variety of "locks" that can be set for the card such as "Lock overseas spending" which applies to in-store and online overseas purchases/payments. https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Cards/Be1st-Smart-Card/Tips/Online-Payment-Overseas

The app takes in consideration which BYD vehicle a person has linked....different vehicles, different capabilities/options. Since the Seal has additional seat features (like ventilated front seats) which another BYD vehicle may not have (like the Atto doesn't have ventilated seats or at least my 2023 Atto does not) maybe BYD figured it would be more important to/desired by Seal owners to have a Seat icon/settings on the main screen. A Seat icon for me (an Atto owner) would be useless....wasted space on the app. But the icon they add for Vehicle Health is definitely something I like to see although it offers little detail other than it's apparently working....working good enough in BYD's view. Maybe the app is currently programmed to where it can only have X-amount of icons on its main screen and there is no room "at this time" to add a Vehicle Health icon for Seal owners as maybe BYD figured Seal owners would prefer to see a Seats icon. Maybe in the future that "More Features" selection will include other icons like this-and-that (like a vehicle health icon for Seal owners) but BYD hasn't got around to programming it into the app yet.....maybe a Vehicle Health icon will appear in the "More Features" screen later on....maybe the next app update.....time will tell. BYD could add all kinds of "OBD2" data readouts/indicators "if they wanted to"....the cabin temp is surely an OBD2 data element but I expect BYD don't want to show owners "too much" as too much data might cause some owners to be concerned...start asking a bunch of questions....etc. There is a ton of data available via OBD2....I know for sure as I keep an OBD2 adapter on my Atto and can see all kinds of info on the car's operation, health, etc. And yes, the Cabin Temp readout is new....wasn't there before....I forgot to mention that earlier. Nice see the inside temp from a standpoint of seeing how hot the car cabin can get when parked like in the blazing sun. It's also nice if you want to check the cabin temp when driving along....for my Atto there is no cabin temperature readout on either display; only an outside temp readout. Don't know why there is no inside temp display on the displays....but the display does show inside and outside PM2.5 levels.

V2.7.0 arrived my phone yesterday. Quite a change in appearance from the earlier version when seeing V2.7.0 for the first time. But after the initial surprise of the revamped appearance there appears to only be one real change/improvement and that is the addition of a "Vehicle Health" selection/icon which opens up to show the health of nine car systems.

I really don't expect BYD Rever to provide much of any explanation as that would be lose of face. Expect they will use a "just let it fade away" type approach when it comes to any explanation. But if an explanation does come I expect it will be made to appear as Gbox being the party-pooper when in fact it appears Gbox is just protecting itself. And I can just see dealership reps giving "beat around the bushes" type answers when customers ask about Gbox no longer working on their BYD vehicle....Gbox installed by the dealership during the BYD SIM upgrade. I'll be asking that Gbox question in a few more weeks when I go to my dealership to schedule the 2 yr/40,000 kilometer checkup as I'm fast approaching 39K kilometers and will reach 40K well before the 2 year point with my Atto. When first accepting the car the dealership stressed to have checkups done "plus or minus 1,000km of the checkup kilometer interval" in those cases where you reach the kilometers point before the time interval point Basically, accomplish the checkup based on "whichever one occurs first....time or distance."

Sure looks like Gbox in BYD vehicles, or any automotive brand vehicle, is off the table for legal use at least for now. See below Facebook thread and a snapshot of a Gbox memorandum. https://www.facebook.com/groups/735185977856032/?locale=th_TH

Me a farang....me have a postpaid DTAC SIM for many years. When I got it I just showed my passport which had a 1 year visa/permit to stay in it...a Non-OA visa at the time....the SIM/billing is in my name. My Thai wife got her DTAC postpaid SIM at the same time wit the SIM/billing in her name. And as a good farang I pay both bills each month. 😜

I will not be surprised in the least if the BYD installed Gbox during the free SIM upgrade ever works again. I expect there was some type of violation of terms of agreement between BYD and Gbox...or maybe BYD HQ decided to pull the plug on Gbox working but the error messag implies it's Gbox being the bad guy. Who knows. This brings back memories for a half dozen or so years ago when AIS Fibre home internet started allowing 3rd party side loaded apps to be installed on their AIS Playbox.....Playbox is the name of the Android box provided for their internet TV/movie service which I use. For about a year a person could sideload Android apps on the AIS Playbox to work side by side with the basic TV and Movie apps that AIS preloads via firmware as part of their internet TV service. Then AIS said they were going to stop allowing sideloading of apps during a firmware update of the AIS Playbox. AIS Fibre never said why they did this flipflop but I expect it caused problems where a person would sideload some app(s) which conflicted with the AIS-pre-installed apps on the basic box hardware which would cause the customer to call AIS for help in trying to get their Playbox to work again so they could watch TV. AIS probably decided they were getting too many such calls....was giving their Playbox service a bad name/reputation for reliability and decided to shutdown the ability to run/install any apps other than those that AIS pushes through periodic Playbox firmware update. Kinda like how BYD periodically sends out OTAs.

That's what I've always used....my Thai Pink ID card 13 digit number. But any 13 digit might work if a person don't have a Pink Thai ID card....and the 13 digit number Thai authorities put on a person's COVID record would work. And if a person has a Thai Tax number that 13 digit number will definitely work. The charging app's seem to want a 13 digit number as in a Thai ID card number since the Thai Revenue Dept requires such when a person wants to use receipts for tax deductions purposes. If it wasn't for the Thai Revenue Dept requirement I expect the charging apps would accept a passport number or maybe not even care about a tax ID number.

I contacted Rever Customer Service via the Rever Automotive app regarding above. They responded saying they are aware of the problem and currently working on identifying an appropriate resolution. Or said another away, Standby to Standby.

Another comment about ReverSharger DC chargers is you can also register for Plug & Charge....if your EV works with the Plug & Charge protocol (ike BYD vehicles do) you can register for such but it's not required. When registered for such you just need to pull-up to a Reversharger DC charger, plug in your EV (no scanning of any charger code, etc., required) and your EV automatically starts charging. PEA offers the same/similar protocol called AutoCharge and it "use" to work for me with my Atto but starting about a year ago it stopped working although I still have the PEA app setting turned on regarding their AutoCharge feature and the app has never asked me again if I want to setup AutoCharge....oh well. Anyway, Plug & Charge/AutoCharge is a very nice feature...just plug-in your EV, charging automatically starts (just like charging your smartphone). Now some might not think it's a big deal....but after you used various DC chargers on road trips and occasionally run into those chargers where your charging app/phone just can't seem to get the charger going because the charger's QR/bar code is not being accepted due to a worn/faded code, your phone seemingly not being the best to scan codes in bright or dim light, etc., a person learns quickly to like the Plug & Charge/AutoCharge feature that bypasses the initial/start charging QR/bar code scanning process....one less obstacle to an easy charging process.

I'm registered with and have used 6 different charging apps....PTT EV Station, PEA, EA Anywhere, Elexa, Altervim, and ReverSharger. They all work pretty much the same and all are easy to use although some I would classify into the super easy to use ballpark depending on if they automatically start charging if you have registered your vehicle with the app or they don't require you to scan the chargers bar a 2nd time when disconnecting. But like I said they are all easy to use and I give a plus 1 to those that also all payment via QR Code/PromptPay and/or have a Wallet function....those apps that only allow payment via debit/credit card, like PTT, get minus 1 from me since debit/credit card payments can sometimes get rejected. ReverSharger allows you to pay via credit/debit card and/or Wallet....you top-up the Wallet via QR Code/PromptPay. A good thing about payment via QR Code is you don't have to worry about your debit/credit card rejecting the payment transaction (i.e., blocked payment). And a good thing about paying from the app's Wallet is there is zero chance of the payment failing as you already have funds in the Wallet....no worry about your debit/credit card blocking the transaction, maybe attempting a QR payment is the wee hours just after midnight when it seems a lot of banks provide notice payment via QR Payment will be offline for an hour or so say from 2am to 3am as some kind of mobile banking maintenance occurs. Anyway, ReverSharger works fine although they are not the cheapest. Like at the moment in time 21 Apr/Mon/8am:55am the price per KWH at the closet ReverSharger and PTT DC charger to me here in Bangkok is Bt8.00/KWH. In comparison the cost of the nearest PTT and PEA DC charger is Bt6.60 for PTT and PEA Bt6.50/KWH. Note: Rates can vary throughout the week and time of day....and also sometimes there are special promotions. But when I'm on a road trip and want to DC charge it's not the cost per KWH that lures me to a charger but the charger's location. PTT has DC chargers at many of it's PTT stations (most marked with the EV logo on the station's road side sign but some stations have a DC charger but no EV logo on their sign....best to go by what the PTT app shows as to charger locations). PEA also has a lot. Lot more PTT stations along major roadroads than ReverSharger. In closing, although I use apps that only allow payment via debit/credit card, like PTT, I really wish those apps would also allow other forms of payment like via QR code, Wallet, etc., as this helps to prevent your card info from getting fraudulently used/hacked. Around two months ago my Thai bank debit card got a late Friday night charge (just before I was getting ready to crawl in bed) for a few hundred baht for a "Spotify" payment. Luckily I happen to notice the SMS notification of the charge within minutes of it occurring, immediately called the Thai bank to notify them of the fraudulent charge, and Suspend the card (Suspend is what this Thai bank calls Cancelation of the card....I went and got a new card on Monday morning at no charge). Anyway, I did get the fraudulent charged refunded to my bank acct about 10 calendar days later (no paperwork required....just the my notification via phone of the fraudulent transaction) but I did have to bother/ping my Thai bank after a week asking about the refund as they initially told me the refund would occur with 7 calendar (not business) days. Now the only place I have my Thai bank debit card loaded online is in some of those charging apps....and I've never used the card for any other online payment. So, my gut feel is my card info got hacked from one of those apps but a person will never really know how a person's card info might have got into the wild...into the hand's pf a scammer. Anyway, I have reloaded my new debt card into the some apps, especially those that only allow payment via debit/credit card, but I now use mbanking to keep the card "locked" for any kind of purchase "until" I need to use for such like a charging app payment. I then unlock the card for a few minutes via mbanking, accomplish the payment/purchase, and then relock the card for payment/purchases. I've done that 3 or 4 times over the last few months (to include just yesterday to charge at a PTT station) and it works like a charm.....keeps the card secured even if your card info somehow gets into the wild. Summary: ReverShargers work fine.

From looking at/translating the comments this problem is apparently hitting everyone....started about a day ago.

Ditto screen on my Atto.

RTV would work like a charm....flexible, waterproof, etc.....its temperature range is typically from around a -60C to hundreds of degrees C. RTV is so good for many repairs. I doubt Super Glue would work well in this situation especially for long term. Here's one of many youtube videos on the subject...RTV is used. Just use your "wet" finger tip to smooth the silicon.

Don't you just love how products seem to fail just outside their warranty period. Can almost make a person think there is some hidden electronic component or firmware coding set to make the product have a fatal heart attack just outside its warranty coverage. 😜 I expect almost everyone has experienced these kind of failures....I know I sure have. Anyway, did the Duosida charger just "completely stop working" or would only work properly on a intermittent basis or did it continue to fire-up but wouldn't allow a charge or ???? And did you leave it turned on pretty much 24/7 (even when not charging for days) or turn it on only when wanting to charge? The reason I ask about 2nd question is when the BYD charger installation contractor installed my free "Zhida RFID 7KW wall charger) he said it was best from a "charger lifetime" to leave it on 24/7 (i.e., let it stay in standby mode) "if I charge at least once a week." Now I do charge at least once a week....in fact multiple times....but I only turn the charger on "while charging"....when done charging it gets turned off. I'm not a fan of leaving "some" electrical equipment turned on and in standby mode 24/7 even if they are supposedly designed for such primarily due to power fluctuations/surges/thunder storms in Thailand. For me, EV chargers fit in this category of not leaving them turned on all the time. However, I have no qualms leaving TV set-top boxes, Wifi routers, home water pumps, etc., powered all the time since they are designed for it and it would be a pain in the butt using them otherwise I too have a 2023 Atto 3 that came with a free wall charger (a basic Zhida RFID card 7KW/32A model) and installation with 2 year warranty....got the car and charger in late Oct 2023. So, in won't be until around Nov 2025 until my this charger breaks. 😜 BYD has jumped around with the specific free wall charger it provides depending on what promotion was in effect when a person bought their vehicle, what BYD model they bought, etc. And in some cases (increasingly it seems) a free charger is not part of the deal....I guess that was one way for BYD to help maintain profit while lowering the EV price. But "right now" BYD seems to be back on the band wagon of providing a free wall charger....but gosh knows what the their promotion will bring. During the ongoing EV price war BYD has been jumping around with the free charger models it provides (if provided)....probably depends on which charger manufacturer offers BYD the cheapest deal on charger buys which I'm sure does a LARGE scale basis. With the "current" Atto promotion they are providing a free Autel wall charger (don't know the specific Autel model)....but come the next promotion the free wall charger may not be offered.

"This everyone (i.e., me)" would not benefit because I run one large home A/C 24/7, another large A/C 10/7 (just night use), several other medium A/Cs that get run a just a few hours each month during the day, use a clothes dryer, washing machine, 3 frigs, a couple of water heaters, water pump, several TVs, bunch of other electronics, etc....etc....etc...and I have an EV which I prefer to charge whenever I want vs waiting until nighttime or the weekends. The wife and I are retired...predominantly at home enjoying the A/C during the hot day vs being cooled by a work place A/C. My electricity consumption is around 1,500KWH per month. Around 16 years ago when first retiring to Thailand and buying our home during that first year I compared/priced-out if I would be better off with a standard rate meter or TOU meter in regards to monthly electric cost. The standard rate meter won in the cost comparison "in my case".....whether a standard or TOU meter is best for an individual (cost-wise per month) will depend on how much "and" at what times they use the majority of their electricity....each individual will be different even if they own an EV.

Thanks for the clarification. One of my neighbors has a similar Benz PHEV...he said he can get about 20km on battery alone.

What kind of hybrid car do you have? Sounds like it's a "PHEV ( a Plug-in HEV) that you charge from solar? That is the hybrid type with a larger battery that can not usually be fully charged from just running the combustion engine to charge the traction battery and charging by plugging it into a charger is required. The reason I ask is when someone just says "hybrid" (or HEV) that usually means an ICEV with a "small" EV traction battery and electrical motor to assist the ICEV combustion motor and maybe even allow a few kilometers of running only on battery power.....and does "not" have a charging port as the combustion engine takes care of charging the small traction battery.

Neta V have liquid battery cooling....i.e., glycol running thru the traction battery cooling plate just like BYD vehicles.

I expect the car company really meant they would arrange to have the charger connected to his "main circuit panel"....that is, where all his current circuit breakers are. Since he has single phase100A service he meets the electrical requirement to install a line (10mm2 wire) from the charger to the main circuit box where the company would install a 40A circuit breaker to feed the 32A/7KW wall charger. MEA may not allow installation of a "separate" meter just for the charger as around a year ago PEA said they would no longer do such except in very limited, special cases and MEA may have mirrored the PEA policy (I'm not sure). Apparently too many bad apples started abusing use of TOU meter for EV charging. If MEA will only allow 1 meter (i..e, the current meter) he should stick with it as I expect it's "not" a TOU meter as TOU meters definitely do not fit everyone's live style in when they use electricity. Most people only go the TOU meter route if they plan to use the "great majority" of their monthly electricity usage (i.e, A/C, TV, frigs, pumps, etc...etc.) between 10pm and 9am weekdays and all hours Sat & Sun. A person really needs to have a good grasp of "when...what hours and days" he uses electricity to ensure he makes the most cost effective decision as to whether to use a Standard or TOU meter. It doesn't sound like he needs to change his current meter which is probably a standard rates meter (i.e., not TOU).

Have a 2023 BYD Atto....a little over 36K kilometers and almost 18 months old....haven't noticed any decrease in A/C cooling performance or increase in noise level....nor increase in fuel/electrons consumption. Fuel consumption indicator has stayed between 12.6 to 12.8 KWH per 100Km....mostly 12.7KWH/100Km like it's at right now. Typically the only time the A/C is significantly used to help cool the glycol/water running thru the traction battery cooling plate (as well as the drive motor, radiator, etc) is on "hot, very sunny" days after driving continuously for around an hour which has given the battery enough time to heat-up enough to require the A/C to assist with the traction battery cooling. At all other times it's predominately the radiator/heat pump system doing the traction battery glycol/water cooling. The A/C starts assisting in the traction battery cooling effort in the 35-38C battery temp ball park on my Atto....that's not ambient temp but the temp of the battery. The ambient/air temp could be 40C or more but the traction battery could still be significantly lower than that if the car hasn't been drove continuously for around 45 minutes causing the battery to heat-up from current flow....like it had been setting all night in your carport and then you jump in the car a 1pm/hot mid day to do a brief trip which is not a long enough time to cause the battery temp to heat-up significantly due to the battery's BIG thermal mass. EV batteries have such a BIG "thermal mass" it takes them a while to heat-up after cooling completely down like setting overnight....typically just doing daily local drives like say 40Km back and forth to do groceries runs, drop family off, a short drive to work, etc., does not cause the battery to heat-up enough to require cooling above and beyond normal radiator glycol/water cooling capability...the A/C is almost totally used to cool the cabin and not needed to help cool the battery except after running the EV continuously for around 45-60 minutes. The heat pump system on BYD vehicles works really well for cooling purposes here in Thailand...can't speak to how well it would work to "heat" the car in a cold/snow environment which I'm not expecting to ever see in my Thailand driving. I base this on monitoring OBD2 data that gives extensive battery temperature info (there are 10 temperature probes in my Atto's 60.5KWH traction battery on monitored by OBD2) Atto extended range and it's pretty obvious when A/C cooling kicks in for the battery. Below is an OBD2 data snapshot while I was AC/7KW home wall charging my Atto about an hour ago....just before the sun had went down. As you will see the battery is receiving 6.25KW of charge with the average traction battery temp of 34C. That "average" consists of 10 different temp probes spaced every 12 or 14 blade batteries in the Extended Range Atto 127 blade battery pack of 60.5KWH. And the temp of the water running thru the drive motor was still 55C as I had just finished a 120Km round trip to the mother-in-law's house. And just because the drive motor is showing a 55C glycol/water temp that does not mean the temp of the glycol/water in the traction battery's cooling plate is 55C due to how the heat pump system system works.....the battery's glycol//water temp was around 34C as in this case the A/C was not running/assisting in the cooling....the magic of a heat pump system.