Electric Vehicles in Thailand

[Bandersnatch]

5 minutes ago, Pib said:

With all these new Chinese brands some of them have a very small dealership support structure in Thailand where you can take your EV for service/maintenance. 

 

Agreed, that is why BYD is currently top of my list. 

[JBChiangRai]

I’m interested in what EV’s come from China in the large luxury type category, I think we’ll see something, maybe Honqi or BYD’s premium brand in the next 3 years.

 

I could be tempted by the Yang Wang U9 if BYD make it available at a similar price to China or the Xiaomi Porsche knock-off (SU7).

 

It’s a very exciting time to be a motorist.

[JBChiangRai]

I’m not worried about distance to dealership.

 

My previous two cars had to be trailered to Chiang Mai (Mercedes dealer 180km away) and Bangkok (German main agent 800km away).

 

As long as they will trailer them if they fail, I’m comfortable.  I don’t mind a trip to Bangkok every year or two for a service, a road-trip occasionally is fun.

 

I have 30,000 baht charging credit to use in the next 2 years so I need to start thinking about road trips.

[carlyai]

13 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

Starting to slowly look for an EV as my “second car” or “Wife’s car”

 

Currently my 1st car is a BYD Seal AWD Performance. It’s a great grand tourer - got back yesterday from a 900+km trip to BKK where it cut through traffic like a hot samurai sword through butter and left us feeling more relaxed and less stressed than our recent flights to the capital.

 

What the seal is not, is a car for trips to the garden center or for carting 3 labradors to the vets. It’s also not a great baby car.

 

My current “second car” is my 4 year old MG HS PHEV. There is actually nothing wrong with it except it only has a 17kWh battery and only charges at 3.5kW. A sensible person would keep it as a  perfectly sensible second car but perhaps I’m not that sensible!

 

Stopped at MG to look at their stock, we like the MG 4 but too small for our needs.

 

At BYD we have already tested the M6, available in 6 or 7 seats not a bad car but not great looking.

 

They had an ATTO 3 (now made in Thailand) in black with a black interior and it looked very smart. Here it is next to my MG HS PHEV

 

 

 

The Sealion 6 is a plug-in hybrid so didn't make the cut, so we test drove the fully electric Sealion 7 and it was very nice indeed if a bit pricey for a second car, but maybe the RWD Premium is more sensible as a baby chariot than the AWD Performance.

 

What would be your choice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are coming from a Honda CRV. so we wanted something with that size inside, but with more Ommmfff than the rear wheel drive 2.0L CRV. Got no real acceleration power for passing.

So the AWD Selion 7 is about the same inside size as the CRV but has that extra Grunt if needed when passing.

That's why we went for the Sealion 7. Also they wanted B 1.7 for the new ICE CRV.

 

[vinny41]

Atto2 has been seen on the roads in Thailand so expected to launch for Motor show in March along side the mg ES 5 (mg zs ev replacement

https://www.car250.com/byd-atto-2-2025-th-15.html

atto2 size wise between Dolphin and atto 3

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, vinny41 said:

Atto2 has been seen on the roads in Thailand so expected to launch for Motor show in March along side the mg ES 5 (mg zs ev replacement

https://www.car250.com/byd-atto-2-2025-th-15.html

atto2 size wise between Dolphin and atto 3

Don't know why they call it a ZS replacement, as obviously a HS BEV.

 

Dimensions of different SUV models ...

[Gweiloman]

15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What I find kind of astonishing is the number of new Chinese brands that are coming into Thailand with absolutely no track history. How do you spend real money on a vehicle without knowing how dependable they are.

 

We hear stories of tens of thousands of Chinese EVS, that are no longer running due to faulty battery systems, and a crazy amount of money required to replace them. 

There you go again, making up false stories. Your anti-China bias really knows no bounds. If you want to be taken seriously, do a bit more research, and not only from anti-China sources.

[Andrew Dwyer]

1 hour ago, vinny41 said:

Atto2 has been seen on the roads in Thailand so expected to launch for Motor show in March along side the mg ES 5 (mg zs ev replacement

https://www.car250.com/byd-atto-2-2025-th-15.html

atto2 size wise between Dolphin and atto 3

The ES 5 choice of name is going to cause some confusion, especially in Thailand where we already have an ES and a 5 !, thought they might have been a little more imaginative.

 

https://autolifethailand.tv/mg-es5-ev-bev-zs-ev-coming-thailand/