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"As the ball spins further into the future" WTF does that even mean? I couldn't read any further than that as it was clear it was going to be another painful Chat GPT "article". Can somebody make it stop now? Please?

Yeah, this changed recently. Annoyingly mine defaults to credit card and I don't even have a Bangkok bank credit card, so I have to change it to direct debit manually on each transaction.

Oh no!! Panic! Panic!!

As Khun LA has already posted, they are not Chinese. Can you tell us where you got your information from that they were Chinese? Or did you just make it up? Please tell as you just make yourself look stupid and possibly racist by making that up. The anti-Chinese propaganda gets swallowed by the gullible, it is really quite pathetic, and you are one of the worst swallowers. I will retract that comment when you show me the information you read that says they were Chinese. They were made by BP Solar (a subsidiary of BP - British Petroleum) by the way. Racist nonsense. I just want to know if you made that up yourself or did someone else make it up and you just swallowed it. Pathetic, truly pathetic. Edit: Oh, and before you say BP Solar probably have them made in China, they don't. They are made in Australia. Their other manufacturing sites are the US, India, and Spain. No Chinese factories.

Interesting article, and definitely true with regards to the Japanese marques. But this is inherently false: "Aside from Tesla, only Mercedes and BMW have EV production forecasts that align with the IEA’s updated 1.5°C scenario which requires 66% of all new car sales to be EVs by 2030.". Volvo will be 50% fully electric by end of 2025 and 100% electric by 2030. I am sure there are others too - pretty sure Audi have a similar target.

Pay by QR, it's much quicker than faffing around looking for the right money or waiting for the cashier to count your money, calculate change, then get the change, then count it twice, then hand it over and wait for you to put it away before they can serve me. Not to mention all the germs that money is coated in. Such nonsense posted in these threads. If you like cash, use cash. No one wants to convert you to cashless - we don't care - just do what you prefer. But don't make up stupid stories to try to make cashless sound slow or inconvenient, just use cash if you prefer it and save us the boring posts.

Wow, that's all you have to come back with?? EOW is a troll but with humour and grace - he is fun to engage with. You on the other hand are just a cartoon.

That looks pretty cool - nice interior too (for a truck). I think a PHEV makes sense for a truck at this point.

Amazing - the people who have adopted cashless payments much prefer the convenience and speed - no waiting for change (which always needs to be counted twice), not carrying around annoying coins etc. The Luddites who say cash is king weirdly always seem to be stuck behind people who don't know how to use their phone properly - how unfortunate they are, I wonder why I never get stuck behind these people? It reminds me of the EV vs ICEV debate. The people who have moved to EVs absolutely love everything about them and would never go back to an ICEV as they are far superior in many ways. But the ICEV stalwarts who would never try an EV make up many reasons why they are worse - reasons that the EV owners can attest are not issues at all. Such parallels with the cash vs cashless debate..... Some people just hate change and for some reason get riled when other people move with the times and prefer the newer technology. If you love cash, use it. Don't make up scenarios about people getting stuck with their phones for "five minutes" in front of you - it's nonsense.

Thank you. I was going to take a photo on my next visit. They are literally in every single petrol station - I can't imagine why Yellowtail is trying to say they don't exist - what's the point?

I must have been imagining the sign I saw when I was filling up the other day then.

Yes they do.

It's a Toyota bz4x, not an MG4.

Says following science like it's a bad thing. Better to follow the fairy tales?

If this was directed at me - not sure as you didn't quote anyone - I would say knife crime is rife in the lower income areas of London particularly. I have family who live in north London and I stay there whenever I visit the UK. You are (whilst being too scared to say it) implying black people are at fault, whereas it is lower income areas that have the problems and they are majority black. One could ask the question why black people are more likely to be in the lower socio economic areas, or we could be like you and just blame the black people for the crime. You and G Money blame black people, I blame the Tory government who have caused social disparity and created low income "ghettos" where crime is rife and cut public funding to the police so they can't patrol those areas as effectively as they used to.

Have you ever been to the UK? What experience are you basing this opinion on exactly?

Oh God, we have a MAGA Trumpist in our midst.

The onus of proof is on the one who makes the claim. Can you support it? If I say all left handed people are mentally retarded you could challenge me on it and ask me to prove it. It wouldn't be on you to prove they are not. Same with any outrageous claim.

As Khun Jeff mentioned it is just one Schengen visa and that allows you free passage within the member countries. But when you apply you must apply to the country where you will spend the most time.

Most of them.

They sold one!!

Yep. I visit maybe twice a year for work, and for short trips it is fun. Great nightlife, great people, very fun loving (similar to Thai in that respect). But overall the city is a turdhole and dangerous (although I've never felt unsafe to be fair). Traffic is terrible, infrastructure (public transport) almost non existent. Worst airport in the world. Worst food in Asia - even the western restaurants are awful. Taxis are horrible. The internet is terrible, decades behind Thailand! Guns everywhere, fast food restaurants everywhere. Banking is terrible. Everything is in cash (you see money trucks all over the city). And the accent is very irritating. On the plus side it is cheap (well, price of beer is anyway), as mentioned the people are great, the girls are fun, it is easy to communicate. But to me it doesn't feel very Asian, it is too American. Good for a visit, no way could I live there. Bangkok is decades ahead in every respect.

Must be a horrible way to go.

I made them tastier for you.

Wow, you are really clutching at straws now. Saying people on here who have expensive EVs don't really exist? Some people prefer to wear their wealth in silence. Others like to brag they have BMWs and put "performance" stickers on them. My neighbour has a 520d but scraped that off and put an M5 badge on it. Maybe it is something with BMWs and screaming for attention....