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Krungthai bank's Compass thinktank has assessed that Thailand will have one million electric vehicles of all descriptions by 2028.

 

This will be made up of 93% hybrid vehicles, they suggested. 

 

Last year only 1% of all vehicles in Thailand were electric or hybrid - 190,000 vehicles. 

 

RYT9 said that vehicle sales worldwide had been sluggish in the pandemic but this trend was bucked by electric vehicles that were showing 43% more sales. 

 

In Thailand there had been a 13% increase in electric vehicle sales though overall sales were down 21%. 

 

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That's it, closing my account at Krungsri, one of my banks stating that they have a "thinktank" must be false news

Someone has been drinking the electric Kool Aid.....

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

This will be made up of 93% hybrid vehicles, they suggested. 

So they estimate that Thailand will have 70,000 real electric vehicles in 2028

Budda for bid.... hope they are going to be better then the House electrics .or there is going to be lots of people electrocuted....

I will have one billion dollars by 2028! Now that I've learned the art of asinine projections I can get a job with TAT or any one of these government bodies proclaiming Thailand is the eternal hub of whatever is trending on Google & Reddit. The good thing (for them) is by the time these far off dates are reached with no results to show they will have been replaced them with a new batch of ludicrous targets and future dates... gently washing over the graveyard of missed estimations.

 

Nearly half will be stationed on Thailand's Lunar electric car hub.

 

Where will the electric power come from? 

The way it looks at the moment, I rather believe that Thailand will have 1 million useless but enormously fanciful lamp posts dotting roadless wilderness areas by 2028, or possibly even earlier.

More to the point, wil they all be vaccinated

29 minutes ago, pegman said:

Where will the electric power come from? 

 

19 minutes ago, pegman said:

Where will the electric power come from? 

Will be reliable and what sources will be used? 

 

Will it be coal fired, hydro electric, solar, biomass generation etc?

 

Out here where I live we usually get 4 or 5 power outages a month. To make it work the electricity companies need to start upgrading the whole network asap.

 

How will people in hi-rise tower blocks be able to recharge their electric vehicles unless, they have a dedicated parking slot with its own charger and metered supply?

This should be fun with a dicey grid like Thailand's?  ????

And coal-fired plants providing that green energy for the green cars.  Lol

Unfortunatly he also said there will only be about 100 charging points around the country  and most wont work.

.....And monkeys will fly outta my butt!

Edited June 18, 20215 yr by Mai mee

In 2012 Thailand said they will host F1 in 2015. Thailand will go to the moon. Thailand will open in 120 days. They just can't help big noting promises that come to nothing. Oh! Lets not forget how fantastic the vaccine rollout will be. 

Certainly the price of fuels will be artificially increased globally to push the transition to e-mobility.
Those who have a petrol car will be able to use it as an ornament.

These must be the same people who make the tourist forecasts.

A bunch of posts have gone walkabout. Let's keep it civil shall we?

 

How coincidental. I just bought a 4 pack of AAA! 

49 minutes ago, zhounan said:

Certainly the price of fuels will be artificially increased globally to push the transition to e-mobility.
Those who have a petrol car will be able to use it as an ornament.

How about my diesel truck!

I bet my gardener will still be using his too and it was around when I was just out of uni!

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

How will people in hi-rise tower blocks be able to recharge their electric vehicles unless, they have a dedicated parking slot with its own charger and metered supply?

1,800m extension cord for the living room socket?

.......and become the hub of alternative energy powered transport.

2 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

.......and become the hub of alternative energy powered transport.

Well they will probably give there electric cars a AA rating but for the small cars with small batteries that will have to be an AAA rating ????

No it won't! ????

And i wll still be waiting for a vaccine. Where do you get all this <deleted> from? 

Electric cars, they cant even mend motorbike back lights.

I believe the title should have been "Thailand will have one million flying electric cars by 2028".  Every bit as believable.

So only 2 decades behind the west? I'm betting they go for half a century. 

3 hours ago, pegman said:

Where will the electric power come from?

  Local generating stations like this in the mountains of Northern Thailand????