Thailand will have one million electric cars by 2028

[johng]

33 minutes ago, Staxer said:

No it won't! ????

Ohh yes it will !!  ????

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, Excel said:

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

I moved from Krungsri years ago... 699 baht per year for the cheapest bank card... 

SCB 200 baht per year.

Roll that out over all their customers and it's some profit they make with just annual card renewals.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, jackdd said:

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

I bet you have to plug-it in at home at your expense to recharge it.

 

[Excel]

Just now, hotchilli said:

I moved from Krungsri years ago... 699 baht per year for the cheapest bank card... 

SCB 200 baht per year.

Roll that out over all their customers and it's some profit they make with just annual card renewals.

As matter of principal I would never dealings with SCB

[Oxx]

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I bet you have to plug-it in at home at your expense to recharge it.

 

"At your expense"? At whose expense do you think it should be recharged? Perhaps it should be free, like petrol and diesel are at the moment.

[hotchilli]

4 minutes ago, Oxx said:

 

"At your expense"? At whose expense do you think it should be recharged? Perhaps it should be free, like petrol and diesel are at the moment.

With the lack of re-charging stations nationwide.. it will be down to you to charge mainly at home.

Maybe not at the same rate you would find at a station.

[Puccini]

3 hours ago, pegman said:

Where will the electric power come from? 

A hybrid car does not have to be plugged into an electrical outlet unless it is a plug-in hybrid. The generator driven by the internal combustion engine charges the battery.

[worgeordie]

IF.. this prediction came about , can you imagine cars all over the roads

due to drivers miscalculating the charge they had in the car and how far

it would go, 

regards worgeordie

[LNKDES1]

I'm totally for E'Vs. I drove a Chevy Bolt in the U.S. for 3 years & loved it. Charged it every night at home. But the only way I can see this number being attained is if the government lowers the import tax/duty on EV's. Otherwise this number is just a pipedream. 

[Nip]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

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?

Well apart from all that what's the problem?  

[overherebc]

58 minutes ago, Almer said:

Electric cars, they cant even mend motorbike back lights.

And how many will switch the lights off at night to save the battery?

Ever been to the Philippines or Brunei??

Edited June 18, 2021 by overherebc

[chilly07]

What happens when you put a extension lead into a petrol tank? Hybrid conversion? I get into trouble putting petrol in a diesel engine and vice versa!

[Nojohndoe]

13 minutes ago, LNKDES1 said:

I'm totally for E'Vs. I drove a Chevy Bolt in the U.S. for 3 years & loved it. Charged it every night at home. But the only way I can see this number being attained is if the government lowers the import tax/duty on EV's. Otherwise this number is just a pipedream. 

No problem unless it is forgotten already the "Great Wall" factory in the south will be working overtime in a monopoly market !

[Scott Tracy]

Out come the Crystal balls again.

 

If I were  betting man, not that it's permitted in Thailand, I'd bet 10 baht this will fall flat on it's proverbial.

 

One question though...is a hybrid considered to be an electric vehicle? Doesn't it have a petrol or diesel engine? 

Oh, another question...Don't hybrids have the same local emissions as a normal petrol or diesel engined vehicle?

Sorry, another question, would a solar panel on top of the car help with range?

[ThaiFelix]

Wow, 1 million electric cars!  Where?, here or on the moon?

[bangon04]

6 hours ago, pegman said:

Where will the electric power come from? 

a long extension cable hanging from the 22nd floor of the Chinese owned condo. It will easily blend in with all the other hanging cables in the street.

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

Out come the Crystal balls again.

 

If I were  betting man, not that it's permitted in Thailand, I'd bet 10 baht this will fall flat on it's proverbial.

 

One question though...is a hybrid considered to be an electric vehicle? Doesn't it have a petrol or diesel engine? 

Oh, another question...Don't hybrids have the same local emissions as a normal petrol or diesel engined vehicle?

Sorry, another question, would a solar panel on top of the car help with range?

If the solar panel was 100 x 100 metres, maybe.

[DefaultName]

As a condo dweller, no, nowhere to charge it.  If it was an option, I'd certainly consider an electric bike.

[placeholder]

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I bet you have to plug-it in at home at your expense to recharge it.

 

As opposed to the free gasoline and diesel that car owners now enjoy?

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, placeholder said:

As opposed to the free gasoline and diesel that car owners now enjoy?

I didn't mean you get free fuel now, that's obvious.

What I meant was now there a few if any recharging stations in the country, yet they want you to buy electric cars.

If you own your own "ground level" house fine, you can plug it in at home... but that will be at a slow rate of charge on a normal domestic capacity.

What do you do if you live in a condo or apartment block, dangle an extension lead out of the window down to where your car might be parked????

Thailand will wait as usual for another country such as Japan or China who are manufacturing electric cars to come and install infrastructure as part of the package.

Or they will make the gas stations such as Esso, PTT, Shell etc install them at there cost.

 

[StevieAus]

16 hours ago, Almer said:

Electric cars, they cant even mend motorbike back lights.

It’s not that they can’t the problem is they don’t, a slight difference!

[Stargeezr]

Thailand like most countries will have to  either build some more reliable coal fired power plants, or

get a couple nuclear power plants. I doubt that solar or wind energy will be enough. The country is mostly

flat, so except for in the mountains, hydro electricity is out as well.  I hope there are some deep thinkers who

will be able to solve the problems, or Thailand will have lots of power failures on a grand scale.

Geezer

[Rampant Rabbit]

999999 will be broken within a  few  months

[Rampant Rabbit]

5 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

will have lots of power failures on a grand scale.

It already does  out  in the countryside, regularly  goes  off  or  brown outs.

[placeholder]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I didn't mean you get free fuel now, that's obvious.

What I meant was now there a few if any recharging stations in the country, yet they want you to buy electric cars.

If you own your own "ground level" house fine, you can plug it in at home... but that will be at a slow rate of charge on a normal domestic capacity.

What do you do if you live in a condo or apartment block, dangle an extension lead out of the window down to where your car might be parked????

Thailand will wait as usual for another country such as Japan or China who are manufacturing electric cars to come and install infrastructure as part of the package.

Or they will make the gas stations such as Esso, PTT, Shell etc install them at there cost.

 

Then why raise the issue of cost at all?

"I bet you have to plug-it in at home at your expense to recharge it."

[Rampant Rabbit]

15 hours ago, bangon04 said:

a long extension cable hanging from the 22nd floor of the Chinese owned condo. It will easily blend in with all the other hanging cables in the street.

Youll need  one with 10  other sockets to accomodate the rice  cooker, fan , charger for  phone etc etc etc....old  bell wire should be ok though!

[huangnon]

Sounds nice but I'm sure it's just empty rhetoric that Thailand has to issue to appease the UN; WEF; IMF, or any other Globalist Org banging the carbon emissions drum.

[Rampant Rabbit]

20 hours ago, Mai mee said:

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

As  long as they are electric  monkeys  that  will be just fine.

[rickudon]

I actually think it is achievable. Note it did say 93% would be hybrids, so only 70,000 all electric. They may also not all be plugin hybrids. It would only require 100,000 electric vehicles to be manufactured a year, and it is likely a lot might be Chinese imports anyway. The realistic part is that no sane person will buy an all electric car in Thailand currently with it's <deleted> recharging infrastructure, unless you are going to use it only as a city runabout.

 

There are currently nearly 19 million registered vehicles in Thailand (so 1% electric), and this will presumably grow. So one million would only be 5% or less. We know that many Thai predictions are ridiculous, but this one could happen. May not, but better chance than most.

[josephbloggs]

On 6/18/2021 at 11:31 AM, wasabi said:

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.

The negativity on this forum is really pathetic.  How sad to just go through life shrieking about headlines and putting everything down constantly.  Does it make your feel superior?  What's your reasoning?

Last year there were 190,000 electric or hybrid vehicles sold in Thailand.  Why on earth is it so difficult to believe in another seven years there will be a million?  Just keeping up the current rate of sales means it has already happened.  Volvo soon will not be selling any pure ICE car, many other manufacturers are doing the same.  By 2028 it is likely that the majority of new cars on the market will be hybrid.

So, put your hysteria aside, read the article (don't just react to the headline), take a deep breath and explain to me why one million electric or hybrid vehicles on the road in 2028 is pie in the sky.  It is inconceivable that that won't be the case and it will happen far sooner in my opinion - just read which manufactures are stopping pure ICE production and when then come back to me.

This forum is depressing.