BANGKOK, July 31 (TNA) – Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has agreed to offer free charging for one year to its existing customers in Thailand as a form of compensation following complaints about recent price reductions, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office Jiraporn Sinthuprai said on Wednesday.

 

The free charging offer will be available at 2,000 stations nationwide starting August 1, Jiraporn said after meeting with BYD executives at Government House.

 

The measure applies to approximately 50,000 customers who purchased BYD vehicles before the price cut, she added.

 

Photo: TNA

 

Full story: Thai News Agency 2024-07-31

 

 

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This is what China does to enable it's "dumping" practices on foreign markets. China can out-cost everyone because they subsidize their industries so much... Why? Well, I'll tell you why, it's because the CCP is desperate to keep people in jobs... as that's the deal with the Chinese people, we keep you earning and you give us power. This deal is called the "heavenly mandate", and if the CCP lose this, it's a massive issue.

Trouble is, the over production and dumping of subsidized products on foreign markets is going to irk many government... already has with the US/Europe/West as they aren't stupid, they know what's happening.

Thailand is also already feeling this with many products like EVs to solar panels etc. Good luck ASEAN as you have not the ballz to confront these self-serving bullies, and it will destroy your native industries... as Chine doesn't care.

14 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

This is what China does to enable it's "dumping" practices on foreign markets. China can out-cost everyone because they subsidize their industries so much... Why? Well, I'll tell you why, it's because the CCP is desperate to keep people in jobs... as that's the deal with the Chinese people, we keep you earning and you give us power. This deal is called the "heavenly mandate", and if the CCP lose this, it's a massive issue.

Trouble is, the over production and dumping of subsidized products on foreign markets is going to irk many government... already has with the US/Europe/West as they aren't stupid, they know what's happening.

Thailand is also already feeling this with many products like EVs to solar panels etc. Good luck ASEAN as you have not the ballz to confront these self-serving bullies, and it will destroy your native industries... as Chine doesn't care.

Stupid prejudiced borne of reading too much mainstream media reports. 

BYD Atto 3, Bht 1,000,000 here, GBP 36,000 in UK, and no free charging.

I love this buyer's remorse as prices come down.  What the clowns on the cutting edge of EV purchases failed to grasp is what happens during all new technological innovation.

Take a simple calculator back in 1971 cost about $375.  A few years later $100.  A few years later $50.  Now you can buy the simple calculator for less than $10 buck.  Scientific innovation and economy of scale.  We could do this same exercise for PCs and laptop computers.

So it makes perfect sense that the first EVs rolling of the assembly line cost more than the next generation.  And they should keep getting cheaper - at least in Asia.  Products in the West are different animals as the capitalists in the West are highly predatory.  Asia and The BRICS will understand that you can't sell products like cars at an economy of scale if the cars are priced beyond the reach of most consumers.  I believe that world-wide EV prices have to keep coming down, and for the same reason as the simple calculator's price came down.