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Advise on buying a BYD car.
Not yet - it takes a few years. Call me back in 5 years and lets see the comparisons between BYDs sold in 2025-2030 and the Teslas. People buy on price - when quality and reliability is far more important is a car (and house). -
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Shopee not avaiable to foreigner
I managed to download the app buy it doesn't help since it crashes for unknown reasons. Thanks for VPN suggestion, it may help sometimes to go from neighboring countries and not my Thai nbr! I havent checked yet if the stores are chosen from KL and I must wait for freight. Laptop is also useful. -
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Where can patients smoke their meds?
Are these the same people making up horror stories in certain national publications about some smoking weed believe they can climb walls like Spider Man and babies crawling around home eating candy and ending up in the hospital. So much Reefer Madness BS from over eighty years ago. -
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Texas Floods
Because it's a tourist area, a big one. Lots of attractive camping, trails, and nature centers around places like Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Kerrville, et. al. Everybody knows it's dangerous and prone to flash floods. If you've ever driven through it you would realize it without being told. But the spring rains in Texas usually end by the first week or so in June. July is usually pretty safe. That said, I'd never camp near the river, just as a precaution. -
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Advise on buying a BYD car.
Putting aside the comparison based on new car marketing blurb and product specs - there is a BIG difference between a HEV and an EV. The EV is way cheaper to make, and HEVs are far more reliable than cheap EVs - Tesla is the only serious reliable high quality EV. The others are catching up - but they have a long way to go. Why do you think Tesla is not as successful in Thailand as the others? Obviously it is the price - not quality - or speed - or reliability. But when it comes to owner's satisfaction Tesla is in front - https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/business/automobile/40047638 Your sales figures are as big a scam as the whole cheap Chinese EV market - you/they only listed Tesla Model 3 - Tesla has the 4th highest EV sales in Thailand. BYD, NETA, MG and then Tesla. But lets see how many BYD, NETA and MG EVs are still running in 5 years and again in 10 years. Me thinks way more Teslas will be running - and they will be worth a lot more in resale value too. There has been a choice in Thailand with regards to EVs for a few years now - Tesla or cheap Chinese EV. All of those are fully committed to (full) EVs because of 2 reasons. In China it is because the Govt mandated it, and in Tesla it is because they are committed to the EV. But there is another viable and serious choice coming soon - Toyota and Honda will be offering alternatives - both as EVs but mainly as HEVs - because they know the market outside of Teslas and (when) the luxury brands get serious about EVs/HEVs, is Hybrids and will be for many years to come. You are justifying your decision to own an EV - fair enough and up to you - but I am pointing out the reasons why most people are not buying EVs and those reasons are valid. I am also saying why if I did decide to get an EV right now it would either be a Tesla or a Honda/Toyota Hybrid next year. But I am going to stick with the ICE cars for a while and keep watching how things develop and pan out. PS - my mate in Australia has some serious money (never divorced) and he has 2 Teslas - 1 for him and 1 for the wife. But when they go 'touring' for a month each year around Australia, he drives the Toyota ICE - because he knows that Teslas outside of the main cities and big highways are not viable. He knows that the Toyota can be (and has been) fixed in many places that they go on their annual driving holiday - whereas the Tesla will need to be towed back to the nearest State capital city - and even then, up in NT they will probably never have heard of them 🙂
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