Electric Vehicles in Thailand

[impulse]

16 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

I'm a big BYD fan and when I get round to changing my car I'll probably go for a BYD, but I think saying just get an acorn nut is not the right answer. No car should have protruding bolts so close to your feet - BYD need to do better. They should be installing the bolts, not the customer.

 

I think there's a bunch of people looking for something to complain about. 

 

As a former grease monkey, gas pumper, and (literal) 40 year engineer, the thought of some exposed screw ends up under the dash where nobody can see them (and you'd have to be double jointed midget to get impaled), doesn't seem worth spending any money to fix. 

 

There have always been products available for the picky people to dress up stuff they don't like about the way their cars left the factory.  It's a huge market.  Look up JC Whitney for a little taste.  (if they still exist...)  Those customers aficionadas can spend the time and money if it makes them happy.  I used to be one of them.  No longer.  The rest of us are just happy they took a few bucks off the cost by leaving off the acorn nuts.  And the labor to install the acorn nuts.

 

My last car was a Toyota Sienna van.  It had all kinds of protrusions that grabbed me when I crawled up under the dash.  None that bothered me operating the vehicle as intended.

 

[josephbloggs]

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I think there's a bunch of people looking for something to complain about. 

 

As a former grease monkey, gas pumper, and (literal) 40 year engineer, the thought of some exposed screw ends up under the dash where nobody can see them (and you'd have to be double jointed midget to get impaled), doesn't seem worth spending any money to fix. 

 

There have always been products available for the picky people to dress up stuff they don't like about the way their cars left the factory.  It's a huge market.  Look up JC Whitney for a little taste.  (if they still exist...)  Those customers aficionadas can spend the time and money if it makes them happy.  I used to be one of them.  No longer.  The rest of us are just happy they took a few bucks off the cost by leaving off the acorn nuts.  And the labor to install the acorn nuts.

 

My last car was a Toyota Sienna van.  It had all kinds of protrusions that grabbed me when I crawled up under the dash.  None that bothered me operating the vehicle as intended.

 

Fair enough it is beneath the dash but from the picture is looks like right next to the pedals so not somewhere I want an exposed bolt.

Having said that I had never looked down there on any car I have owned, maybe I will check tomorrow beneath the floor mats - maybe it is common.

[mistral53]

So there is this electric car company worth more than all other car companies combined, and yet, on some of their models having produced them for several years, they still cant manage to reliably put suspensions together in a way that they stay together.....?

 

Come-on Musk, pull your head out of his old ass and spend some time building cars in a way that does not embarrass even the most fervent fan-boy, not to mention this has the potential for great harm to the car owner and the public at large.

[UWEB]

7 hours ago, mistral53 said:

So there is this electric car company worth more than all other car companies combined, and yet, on some of their models having produced them for several years, they still cant manage to reliably put suspensions together in a way that they stay together.....?

 

Come-on Musk, pull your head out of his old ass and spend some time building cars in a way that does not embarrass even the most fervent fan-boy, not to mention this has the potential for great harm to the car owner and the public at large.

Nothing else expected.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom-in-german-tuv-reliability-test-again/

[Pib]

12 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

I'm a big BYD fan and when I get round to changing my car I'll probably go for a BYD, but I think saying just get an acorn nut is not the right answer. No car should have protruding bolts so close to your feet - BYD need to do better. They should be installing the nuts, not the customer.

That protruding bolt in that Sealion pic or even the protruding bol shown in my Atto pic are "not" close to a person's feet UNLESS the person is trying to jam his feet up under the dash and way behind the pedals. 

 

And I just went out to my Atto and tried touching those protruding bolts I showed in my Atto pic by sticking my feet behind the pedals and they upwards to where my toes could feel/touch those bolts.  I could just barely feel them....they did not bit/snag my toes....and I would be crazy to try to drive that way with my feet behind the pedals and pushed upwards to reach those bolts as I surely wouldn't get far before having an accident.

[CLW]

21 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I like it, and hopefully that will become a standard thing.  Would eliminate people not unplugging when done, rare.  

 

Hopefully, they stop charging @ 95%, as the last 5% simply takes too long.  Instead of 5 ish mins, as <95% goes in at,  it could be 20 mins, for that last 5% min of top up.  Charging cable & Make/model dependent.  

 

Really is rude now to go to 100% is someone is waiting.  Depending how far our next leg of the journey is, if not last stop, well leave anywhere from 80% and up, if someone is waiting. 

Absolutely with you. Most apps and stations display you can see the charging %. If I'm really in a hurry I ask friendly if the people really need a 100% or if they could vacate the spot for others. Ultimately you could press the stop button but that would be very rude. 

Better not bothering with these idiots...

[JBChiangRai]

I took our 23 month old MG4 with 29,000km in to have the battery checked.

 

SoH is 92.8%

[Pib]

49 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

I took our 23 month old MG4 with 29,000km in to have the battery checked.

 

SoH is 92.8%

How was that SoH measurement done?  What type of equipment was used?  Who did it?    Is your battery LFP or NCA/NCM?

 

Sorry for multiple questions but I've really been interested in SoH measurements over the past 6 months....and I've come to the conclusion that some SoH measurements done by some shops are like some people who sell snake oil.

[josephbloggs]

2 hours ago, Pib said:

That protruding bolt in that Sealion pic or even the protruding bol shown in my Atto pic are "not" close to a person's feet UNLESS the person is trying to jam his feet up under the dash and way behind the pedals. 

 

And I just went out to my Atto and tried touching those protruding bolts I showed in my Atto pic by sticking my feet behind the pedals and they upwards to where my toes could feel/touch those bolts.  I could just barely feel them....they did not bit/snag my toes....and I would be crazy to try to drive that way with my feet behind the pedals and pushed upwards to reach those bolts as I surely wouldn't get far before having an accident.

Ah ok, fair enough.

[transam]

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

I took our 23 month old MG4 with 29,000km in to have the battery checked.

 

SoH is 92.8%

Is that good or bad for 2 years use...?  🤔

[KhunLA]

Way too many BEVs in TH, especially locally / PKK, and MG ZSs.  Getting near 10 owned locally, I think, and considering the size & economics of the area, impressive amount, not counting the other brands I've noticed; BYDs, Ora kitty cats, even a couple Teslas.   Not leaving out the Hybrids.

 

Another silver ZS like ours at Makro, which I tried to enter ... having a 'What the, why isn't that button working', along with "Where the F is my dog ?" 

 

Hmm .. there's ours, 2 slots down  🙄

 

On Topic as always ...  Wuling Bingo EV @ Makro on display, and have to say, looking quite impressive, abet low spec'd, but didn't expect it to be that finished.  Much better than the Wuling Air EV

 

[JBChiangRai]

1 hour ago, Pib said:

How was that SoH measurement done?  What type of equipment was used?  Who did it?    Is your battery LFP or NCA/NCM?

 

Sorry for multiple questions but I've really been interested in SoH measurements over the past 6 months....and I've come to the conclusion that some SoH measurements done by some shops are like some people who sell snake oil.

 

36 minutes ago, transam said:

Is that good or bad for 2 years use...?  🤔

 

This was the service department at the MG dealer.  He showed me it on his mobile phone, I suspect he used something like the commercially available carscanner device, the display looked like ones you've posted Pib. It's an LFP battery pack.

 

It's normal for batteries to age more in the first year then slow down. I would say ours is probably on the bad side of normal.  I drove it for 10 months and I kept it close to 100% SoC every day which accelerates aging, I also have a heavy right foot.  My eldest daughter has driven it for the last 13 months and she will average a 55-60% SoC as she only charges it (always to 100%) when it's down to below 20%.  She also has a heavy right foot and cruises faster than I do, probably nearer to 120km/hr on a journey.

 

I just renewed the Seal's insurance with Viriyah and asked them to quote for the MG4 and they said they don't currently cover MG4's.

[Pib]

4 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

 

This was the service department at the MG dealer.  He showed me it on his mobile phone, I suspect he used something like the commercially available carscanner device, the display looked like ones you've posted Pib. It's an LFP battery pack.

 

It's normal for batteries to age more in the first year then slow down. I would say ours is probably on the bad side of normal.  I drove it for 10 months and I kept it close to 100% SoC every day which accelerates aging, I also have a heavy right foot.  My eldest daughter has driven it for the last 13 months and she will average a 55-60% SoC as she only charges it (always to 100%) when it's down to below 20%.  She also has a heavy right foot and cruises faster than I do, probably nearer to 120km/hr on a journey.

 

I just renewed the Seal's insurance with Viriyah and asked them to quote for the MG4 and they said they don't currently cover MG4's.

 

Thanks.   

 

Since a MG dealership did the measurement with their OBD2 reader it's  probably a good SOH readout.  The dealerships service centers have high end OBD2 devices and also access to any proprietary OBD2 data the EV's computers/BMS may contain....proprietary OBD2 data that may not be available on the open market like when you buy a low cost OBD2 adapter and match it up with some OBD2 app your get for free or a small amount.

 

Now several weeks ago when I took my BYD Atto to the dealership for the SIM upgrade/swap I asked if I could get a battery SOH readout.    The answer was a firm No!!!....they will only do that if a problem is suspected with the traction battery.    

 

As explained in one of my earlier posts regarding SOH of my Atto battery I don't get a "valid" SOH readout using my OBD2 adapter with the Car Scanner Pro app.  The SOH readout the app gives is a "calculated" SOH obtained from dividing two static, hard-coded values set at the factory and these values never change..,even 10 years from now those values will not change....SOH next month, 1 year from now, 10 years from now would appear like it did day 1 out of the factory.     Maybe in the future the Car Scanner Pro app author will figure out the secret to obtaining a direct SOH readout (i.e., not calculated) from BYD vehicles BMS "assuming" the BYD BMS has such a value vs BYD using some type of fancy algorithm on a external OBD2 device to come up with a SOH reading based on a bunch of various factors like individual cell voltage, cells voltage delta, etc.  Time will tell.

 

The app's author knows EV owners really want to see a traction battery SOH reading with whatever app they use/buy so the "calculated" SOH probably fools a lot of people....hopefully such people will figure that out over the coming months/years assuming they notice the SOH readout has not changed even a little bit.  

 

So, I been doing some SOH measurements using OBD2 data based on KWH and Amp-Hour (AH) capacity when charging from a low SoC....usually starting at around 5% SoC.  About a month ago when I last did a SOH measurement (the Atto was 13 months old with approx 27,000 Km at the time)  I got a SOH measurement of  97.6% when using the "KWH" measurement method and 96.7% if using the "AH" measurement method.  The average of those two methods is 97.1%, 

 

97.1% is not bad considering...actually pretty good....as a lithium-ion type battery (LFP like the Atto battery or even a NCA/NCM battery) has its biggest capacity degradation during the first year or so and then the continued degradation is much slower as the years go on.