Electric Vehicles in Thailand

[Pib]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Depends on use - but we have not used anything other than the home charger since before Christmas...   How much range do you need ?? - we're doing less than 100km per day and charge over night at home.

 

 

Oh, my BYD Atto with a 60.5KWH battery is rated at NEDC 480Km/WLPT 420km....and I can get 420Km real world range with ECO driving.  It's a lot more than I need for day-to-day driving....and needing to charge once on a long trip is not a big deal. 

 

HOWEVER, BUT, I would like to have an EV with approx 750Km real world range. Do I really "need" an EV with such a range?  No.   But do I "want/desire" such an EV?  Yes.       And I would like to have a full size SUV EV with that save 750Km range....heck, I would even settle in the interim for a 500Km real world range on a full size SUV such as a Fortuner size.   

 

And EVs with significantly longer range will pretty much kill-off a main reason lots of people don't buy an EV---range anxiety.   EV sales will surge!! 

 

 

[KhunLA]

15 hours ago, Pib said:

 

Oh, my BYD Atto with a 60.5KWH battery is rated at NEDC 480Km/WLPT 420km....and I can get 420Km real world range with ECO driving.  It's a lot more than I need for day-to-day driving....and needing to charge once on a long trip is not a big deal. 

 

HOWEVER, BUT, I would like to have an EV with approx 750Km real world range. Do I really "need" an EV with such a range?  No.   But do I "want/desire" such an EV?  Yes. 

Same here, and our MG ZS only as a usable 46.3kWh (of 50k.3) battery.  NEDC 403, WLTP 320, which we average 360 around town (30-60-90 kph), and ~340 at highway speeds (90 kph, when possible).

 

Would more battery & range be nice ... yes.  BUT, we rarely make past 250 kms on the road, before wife, dog or myself, need a P break, and a munch, since that's 3+ hours since leaving the house.   While doing those, we simply plug in, and both us & car (@ 90-95%) are usually done about the same time.

 

So need ... NO ... and I'm too thrifty to pay the extra, for something I don't need.   Would be nice though, especially if the trucks here, had proper cargo bed, 2 meters long so we could sleep back there and play RV camping.   Only thing keeping me from buying a truck.

[carlyai]

Just did a return trip from Kuchinari to Kong Kaen airport and drive around both areas.

Trip about 350km.

Got back home and still had 22% battery. 

That was in eco mode with the Sealion 7. 

Just running car in for 2000km, but eco mode is fine for me.

The main thing that was lacking in our CRV was power. Power to get out of trouble.

The Sealion 7 has lots of power, even in eco mode. Still got Standard and Performance modes to go. 

 

 

[Pib]

7 hours ago, carlyai said:

Just did a return trip from Kuchinari to Kong Kaen airport and drive around both areas.

Trip about 350km.

Got back home and still had 22% battery. 

That was in eco mode with the Sealion 7. 

Just running car in for 2000km, but eco mode is fine for me.

The main thing that was lacking in our CRV was power. Power to get out of trouble.

The Sealion 7 has lots of power, even in eco mode. Still got Standard and Performance modes to go. 

Extrapolating that to running the battery down to 0% would indicate a real-world range of around 449Km which sounds about right for a Sealion 7 Performance or AWD (I don't know which model you have) with NEDC ratings of 567 and 542Km, respectively. 

 

I kept my Atto in ECO mode for the first 3,000Km and since then (around 18 months now) I've kept it in ECO mode about 99.9% of the time.  Only use Normal or Sport mode (which burns electrons a little faster) whenever I want to do some tests, maybe show-off the get-up-and-go to some passengers, etc.  But ECO gives plenty, more than enough power for quick passing, quick get-away if you are the driver for  bank robbery, etc.