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I know one member on here sold his after two years for a 10% depreciation, but to be fair his was a very unique car and can't be considered normal. Used electric cars: https://www.one2car.com/en/used-cars-for-sale?fuel_type=Electric&page_size=25&sort=registered_year.asc Frankly some ridiculous asking prices. 800,000 baht for a four year old Nissan Leaf?? Outrageous. For the crazy second hand prices you should just get a new one. A BYD Dolphin standard range is 699,000 THB, all the latest technology and safety, 400+ km range. An extended range is 859,000 baht with closer to 500km range - just 60k more than someone is asking for a four year old Leaf with maybe 200kms of range at best. So many more choices out there from Chinese brands. Just go new, it is a buyer's market right now. I am shocked by the second hand prices.

More "what ifs"? There are a couple of people in this thread that make valid arguments and can discuss them rationally - everyone is open to that, all the EV owners can engage in that happily as no-one is perfect and there are valid arguments on both sides. But you are just tiresome and childish using childish terms and arguments, calling people who own and have knowledge of EVs "believers". Extremely childish. Maybe you are just too infantile to understand the technology and that is fine. BTW you can't just "swipe a card" if there is no mobile signal. Best stock up your shekels and put them under your pillow and leave the rest of us alone.

Yeah, my friend was going to drive there but Seatran saying no bookings until the 24th (at the moment) as they can't guarantee sailings. So he flew as he needs to be there for Christmas. Nice to see one company taking safety seriously.

Yes, those stats for that company are not good, but let's not forget they are aftermarket conversions - I wouldn't recommend doing that for any energy source. How many fires have we seen here from dodgy CNG or LNG conversions? Overall the stats are that EVs are much less likely to catch fire than a diesel or petrol vehicle. When they do go off they are very dangerous, but they are less likely to catch fire in the first place.

Very helpful.

@Lacessit obviously you don't have an agenda and you are simply consumed by the truth, so what does your research tell you about the above? 250 diesel truck fires in Victoria vs one EV fire. Obviously there are many more diesel trucks on the road than electric ones, so how does it measure up? Please exclude aftermarket conversions. Or how do you disqualify any research (and there is a lot of it) that EVs have a significantly smaller chance of catching fire than ICEVs? You hold the truth so dear that I am sure you have looked in to it. Or do you also believer the Australian PM is a "mincer" and a "D!ckhead" for letting the populace vote on indigenous rights and no further research is necessary? Come on, oh seeker of truth.

Sorry, when someone is calling the PM a Mincer - and woke - for supporting a vote on indigenous populations' rights, he is obviously a right wing d!ckhead and his agenda is clear. Zero credibility from there on in. I find it so hard to listen to him as he is so childish, repeatedly saying "Jay Anus" for "Janus" - hilarious!! Facts and logic, of course. But just for you I forced myself to listen to some more of his childish video (I couldn't make it to the end, sorry). The fire was real, the EV was an aftermarket conversion. Plenty of dodgy aftermarket CNG fires, I don't see what is different. https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/article/21162767/close-calls-not-a-wastethe-tale-of-a-cng-garbage-truck-fire A bit more research on the incident leads to this: The other interesting comment from the fire brigade was that they had been to 250 diesel truck fires in Victoria this year and this is the first EV truck fire they’ve had. “It seems like we turn a bit of a blind eye when a diesel truck is on fire but when an EV is on fire, it’s a major issue.” https://bigrigs.com.au/2023/12/18/why-electric-truck-caught-fire-on-the-west-gate-freeway/ If you want an EV, buy it from a reputable EV manufacturer. If you want a CNG vehicle buy it as a factory built vehicle. I don't see what this conversion has to do with the safety of EVs as there is plenty of evidence out there that EVs are much much less likely to catch fire than an ICEV. And it seems there are way more diesel truck fires than EVs. Australia’s Department of Defence funded EV FireSafe to look into the question. It found there was a 0.0012% chance of a passenger electric vehicle battery catching fire, compared with a 0.1% chance for internal combustion engine cars. (The Home Office said it was unable to provide data for the UK.) Elon Musk’s Tesla is the world’s biggest maker of electric cars. It says the number of fires on US roads involving Teslas from 2012 to 2021 was 11 times lower per mile than the figure for all cars, the vast majority of which have petrol or diesel engines. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/20/do-electric-cars-pose-a-greater-fire-risk-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles Please post credible links, not homophobic right wing idiots making childish videos. Jay Anus indeed!

"The Prime Mincer is a d!ckhead with his woke referendum". Kind of makes it obvious which side he's coming from and what agenda he has. I didn't pay any attention after that.

As others have said, the Labour Department is the place to go, just make sure you have all evidence. My friend got let go by a Thai company I used to work for and they paid no severance as they made up a story that he went on leave without permission. He went to the Labour Department, they asked for all emails, evidence, screen grabs of chats etc. The Labour Department then approached the employer to tell them they are were in the wrong and they needed to pay or go to court - they paid. However you don't state anything about your circumstances. Depending on how it happened you may not be entitled to any severance: if you had three written warnings they can fire you, if you are guilty of gross misconduct they can fire you, there will be other scenarios in your contract that stipulate reasons for being able to terminate the contract without severance. If you give more info you will get better advice.

Pretty sure they wouldn't buy one because - by comparison - they are noisy, dirty, sluggish and smelly. That's certainly how my ICE car felt after using an EV version for three days.

What if there was an earthquake and your EV fell in to a ravine? Not so much use to you then is it? See you didn't consider that scenario. Buyers remorse much?

There isn't one, you got me. Personally I wouldn't be driving in to a desolate remote area with a low battery or a low tank - it's just rather stupid to do in any case. I would have filled up at the last main town or non deserted remote forest (or wherever we're going in your made up scenario). And do you usually carry a jerry can full of petrol around with you "just in case"? If you have read any of the threads here you will absolutely see there is not a jot of buyers remorse, everyone who drives an EV say they would never go back to ICE. I don't own an EV but having spent time with one I can say with 100% certainty that I would never buy another ICE. The only remorse the owners here have is that of having to constantly combat EV-haters who post made up drivel or who dream up ridiculous scenarios (that will never happen in a hundred years) to justify their blind hatred. It is tiresome. What I don't understand is why the anti EV brigade are so rabid. Do they go in to threads about other things to say how much they hate them or how stupid they are? Not sure why they get so particularly triggered about EVs to make up or propagate nonsense.

Yes, if all the electricity is out across the country and there is no UPS backup all EV owners are absolutely screwed. So are hospitals, banks, airports.... If your service provider explodes you are screwed too. When was the last time your service provider went down? I've been with AIS for over 20 years and don't remember there ever being a service outage. But if really worry so much about things that don't happen, or if the most remote and unlikely "what if" scenario scares you, then stick with your ICE. BTW many people don't use cash anymore, I rarely carry cash. So if I fill my car with petrol but then there is a service provider outage, or if I am filling up in some mysterious remote location that doesn't have a phone signal (not sure why there would be a petrol station in somewhere so remote) then I'm screwed. Damn, I had never considered that, not sure how I'll sleep at night now. This might be handy for you so you know where not to go: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/TH/-/19345.AIS-Mobile/signal/?ll=13.100879969526488&lg=101.55761718750001&zoom=5

1. How extremely isolated do you have to be to have no mobile signal? I don't remember the last time I've not been able to get a signal. 2. If this extremely isolated place is on your journey you're not going to drive there with an empty battery, just as you wouldn't drive in to an extremely isolated place with an empty tank of petrol either. That would be extremely stupid in both cases. 3. Why would they put a charging station (or a petrol station) somewhere that is so extremely isolated that it doesn't have a mobile signal? There would be no passing traffic so no business case to have either a CS or a petrol station. 4. It really is a stupid argument.

When I looked they all operate through an app on your phone. You scan a QR on the charging station then follow the instructions - payment is done through the preferred payment option you've set up in the app. Could be different now but that's how it was many months ago when I used a charging station.

Best wishes to you and thanks for updating us as people are interested/concerned to hear how you are doing. I am sad I can't be of more constructive help but hope things come good for you. Keep the faith.

I am actually, thanks.

Brazil was about 18 years ago. Anyway I appreciated having someone with first hand knowledge of the country to give suggestions and very good they were too, I would definitely have missed out. Like I said, I have only used an agent twice and I have been on hundreds of trips to dozens of countries. So thanks for your patronising drivel, but the OP was asking for a recommendation as he needs an agent so I was helping give some context to my recommendation of a company. Move along now unless you have something to say that might help.

Generally true, and I always do it myself. I always wondered why travel agents still existed when it is so easy to do it yourself. However I used an agent (DTC) twice in my life to visit countries - Brazil and Japan - with friends / family that I literally knew nothing about. I could have spent weeks researching locations and booking every hotel, destination, internal flight / train, but it's quite nice to have someone with the knowledge and experience to do all that for you, especially if you are going as a group. My Brazil and Japan trips would not have been as amazing as they were without the suggestions and recommendations of DTC - and if I need to change anything along the way I just call the guy and he sorts it. They offer suggestions, you don't need to agree with them, it is more of a conversation about what you like. But in my experience their suggestions were superb: Iguazu falls in Brazil for example I had never heard of it and definitely wouldn't have thought of going there but it was one of the most amazing places I have ever been, and all thanks to the first hand recommendation of the travel agent. Likewise Kawaguchi in Japan - I'd never heard of it and definitely wouldn't have found it by myself, but he suggested it and booked a great hotel and told us exactly how to get there from Tokyo by train(s). I didn't use them for any organised tours as I hate those with a huge passion, just recommendations for destinations and interesting places and all the hotels and travel, and I sorted out the rest when I got there. In the OPs situation with a group of Thais going somewhere they have never been and likely know little about I think he is right to use an agent - they are very useful in those situations and take all the stress and headaches away. And it was not noticeably more expensive than doing it myself although yes, possibly slightly more expensive.

Excellent reply and excellent analogy.

I'm not a TG basher - I don't mind them generally. But Emirates business class is soooo much better. Much better service on board, better aircraft (assuming you're on the A380 - their older 777s are not recommended), infinitely better lounges. Plus you get picked up and dropped off at each end of your journey. Personally I prefer doing the two shorter flights with a short break in-between, but for others flying direct is important.

Nope. An ATR 72-500 is not flying to China - maybe the very very southern cities but anywhere else is well out of its range. More likely to be serving Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, maybe Northern Malaysia.

To be fair most of the people posting against EVs do not own one and have not even tried one. BD does own them, posts about them, knows about them. I think it's fair to say he speaks from personal experience and knowledge, and yes, he does know more than most (myself definitely included). On any subject we generally listen to people with first hand knowledge or experience, on EVs people tend to shut them out as they are not interesting in hearing the "other side". If an anti EV poster would care to take one for a test drive and then come back and post their findings I would be impressed. But instead they just make up stupid stuff to justify their blind hatred. I have said it before but I consider myself a "petrol head". Always been in to cars, engines, noises. I spent a lot of money modding a Subaru Impreza to 500+ bhp and it was the loudest thing ever and I loved it, I loved everything about it, especially the noise it made (burbling flat four, turbo waste gate, blow off valve whooshing). I never thought I would like an EV: soulless, no character, "washing machine", impractical etc. That is until I tried one. Absolutely not impractical (for my needs), the infrastructure in Thailand is impressive, and the experience of driving is fantastic. You don't miss the noise, you become addicted to the instant performance and the peace and quiet. My current car is a 260bhp turbo that is refined and does 0-60mph in 6.2 seconds. Pretty nippy by most standards. But getting back in to it after three days with an EV it felt like I was going back a few decades: it felt sluggish, noisy, unrefined, and old fashioned. Guess what, I approached EVs with an open (albeit skeptical) mine, and I totally changed my outlook. Not speaking for BD but I am sure he finds it frustrating that people with closed minds keep posting false information so he corrects them. I say try an EV, go for a test drive, get in it with an open mind, then if you still don't like it come back here and post your reasons - neither BD nor anyone would have any issue with that. A good open minded debate is very welcome and anyone who can engage in one will be respected.

Guess what, an EV is probably not right for your mum and dad, or you. That is totally fine, I don't know how many times I (and others) have said EVs are not suitable for everyone. There are rational reasons why they might not be suited to a particular person's needs or lifestyle, no one disputes that. But people get annoyed when anti-EV posters make up ludicrous reasons to justify their mindset: "what if my boss calls me to drive immediately 300kms to a meeting, what happens when the motorway is unexpectedly closed and you are diverted tens of kilometres through deserted forest, what if you rent one but the previous renter smashed up the battery pack, what if you stop at a charger and there is no mobile phone signal" etc. Those kind of posts are rightly responded to and ridiculed. BTW where do your parents live that they get regular storms that take out electricity for 2-3 days, rural Africa?

So you think Carabao - which has built up a billion dollar drinks brand and has invested hundreds of millions in to this one - just makes up a drink in a new category and dumps it on the market without any research? Seriously? If you want to compete in the Thai mass market an extra 10 baht a bottle would kill your business immediately. I love the posters on here thinking they know better than the people who have built billion dollar companies. Why not send them an email and tell them of your ideas, I am sure they would appreciate it.