Electric Vehicles in Thailand

[Photoguy21]

5 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

 

Not sure where you live but could be Bkk or Pattaya by the sounds of it but here in CM, there is hardly any traffic congestion outside of the old town. Most of the roads are rather free flowing. The big issue are the traffic lights, they take a long time to change. This is where the instant acceleration of EVs come into their own. It allows you to be quicker by a couple of seconds which then saves 3-5 minutes otherwise spent sitting at the traffic lights.

 

Not sure how long you have been driving but any good and experienced driver will tell you that it’s always better to have good acceleration when you need it rather than top end speeds which can be nice in Germany but only on some Autobahns.

I live in BKK. Even if the road is totally free of vehicles the extra couple of seconds in acceleration is nothing. I doubt if anyone here in BKK or elsewhere live their lives to the minute

[JBChiangRai]

51 minutes ago, khunphil said:

That s a good speed ! I usually enjoy the scenery and take 1 more hour 😉 By curiosity, when you arrive at destination, do you still have some power left ?

If I’m hammering it, I have 36% battery left.

[Pib]

9 hours ago, Pib said:

 

 

Here's the Neta Thailand public relations 29 Apr 2025 media release talking the new parts warehouse that suppose to go operational this month/May 2025.    I've also added the autolifethailand.tv news release links.   See both link for full details.  I wonder "just how stocked" the warehouse will actually be.   Hopefully Neta will pull thru its current challenges. 

 

https://www.neta.co.th/en/news/brands-pr-news/prnews20250429

https://autolifethailand.tv/neta-spart-parts-distribution-center/

 

When seeing pictures of this new looking Neta facility and since it's located in the Nakorn ChaiSi district of Nakhorn Pathom province (bordering western Bangkok) I began thinking that I've seen a building looking very, very similar especially since I drive thru the Nakhorn ChaiSi district on PhetKasem Road (#4) at least once a week when the Thai wife and I visit her mother.   In fact, drove to the MIL's house today. 

 

While setting at the MIL's house killing time I did some more googling on the facility and mostly ended-up on Facebook pages.  Anyway a couple Facebook posts had some more pictures and one guy said it was previously a Honda place.   That's bit of info activated some more brain cells which told me I probably know exactly where this facility is and it was just a month or so ago when I pointed out to the wife the new looking building as we drove along and said it looked like it was going to be some kind of "car place/showroom" based on its designed.

 

On the way back to Bangkok I looked for the facility while driving along....and I found it....and sure enough it was an "old Honda dealership" which is a BIG place when considering the part of the facility you can not see from the road.  Basically it appears Neta bought this Honda place and has renovated it to a Neta showroom (you could see Neta vehicles in the showroom today) and also the other part of the building identified as the Spares Distribution Center.   There was ongoing activity as we drove by.

 

So, the facility truly exists as a showroom/dealership and also a spare parts center (i.e., warehouse).  Now as to how many parts they actually have in stock I couldn't say.   Below are a couple of snapshots from Google Maps satellite/street view that shows the Neta facility when it use to be a Honda facility.   And note the 2nd snapshot that shows the "long" building which could probably serve well as a warehouse for parts....you don't see the long part when just driving by the facility on PhetKasen Rd.

 

 

 

 

 

[ExpatOilWorker]

On 5/16/2025 at 9:36 AM, Pib said:

Yeap, when I saw those three replacement traction batteries I got mixed feeling.  

This might partly explain the high inventory of replacement batteries.

 

[Pib]

1 minute ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

This might partly explain the high inventory of replacement batteries.

 

 

Could be one of the possible reasons for failure.  Not only does the battery pack contain a "lot" of individual blade battery cells like 126 blade batteries/cells in an extended range 60.5KWH battery but there is also a bunch of electronic battery management system (BMS) "daughter" boards across every dozen of so of those blade batteries and then a BMS "mother board" in the front of the battery where the cables connect to.  I expect it's the "electronic" BMS daughter/motherboard that fails and not any of the actual battery cells.  But whether the actual blade battery cell(s) or BMS electronics it still makes the battery pack inoperative/defective.....time for a new one as these type of packs can't be repaired due to their design/construction other than at the factory.   

 

 Now in my Atto I have drove thru water depth two times that was "almost" up to half the wheels height like described above...so far, no problems.   I didn't drive thru that  water height on purpose but instead of kinda get trapped into do it due to flash rain storms that temporary flood low spots/roads and you just need to press on unless you want to stop and let the water rise around you or create a traffic jam because of blocking traffic behind you.

 

And I love where the poster above described the traction battery as "the high pressure battery."     😄

[ExpatOilWorker]

53 minutes ago, Pib said:

And I love where the poster above described the traction battery as "the high pressure battery." 

Just a translation error from high voltage. Maybe the Thai world is closer to potential. 

[Pib]

1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Just a translation error from high voltage. Maybe the Thai world is closer to potential. 

Yea....the translation by google translate type apps is usually pretty good....but it's also not uncommon for the translation to present funny type results or even completely inaccurate results based on my experience of using google translate a LOT over the years especially if some slang words, misspelled words, or abbreviations are being translated.