EV purchases held up by Comptroller General’s dept pricing delay

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The Comptroller General’s Department needs to get moving on setting prices for electric vehicles so that state agencies can purchase them, the chief of the Industrial Economics office chief said on Monday.

The department needs to set media prices for electric vehicles before government agencies are able to act, said Siriruj Julkarat, director of the OIE.

 

Siriruj Julkarat said the Cabinet had approved his body’s proposal to require state agencies to purchase electric cars at a 1:10 ratio, allowing one in 10 cars to be electric as a pilot project to support development of the electric car industry.

 

Purchases are being delayed because the department has yet to set the median prices, he said.

 

He said the OIE has asked the department for median prices but it has not yet received a reply. He said the OIE may have to send a second request because state firms want to make purchases as soon as possible.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327599

 

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This will affect the amount of tax they collect from fuels of different types as the economy swings away from petroleum base power sources.

Nothing happens quickly in Thailand. Take elections for example.

Prices take time to set and cannot be announced until it is worked out who will be riding the kick-back gravy train.

There is not a lot of sense in EV's until you know that the energy used to charge them is coming from a clean

or better still a renewable source.

I charge my car from a source 150 kilometres away that is generating electricity with  a dirty lignite source

all we have achieved is moved the pollution, & actually made it worse due to transfer loss of at least 4%.