Tax Exempted for Vehicles with Engine Power under 3K CC

Excise Department has announced that a 50,000-baht tax will be exempted from vehicles with engine power not over 3,000 CC.

Excise Department Director-General Uthid Thammawathin (อุทิศ ธรรมวาทิน) said that Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya (ทนง พิทยะ) has exempted the tax payment only if vehicles install NGV engine and the expenses of the installation is equal the amount of tax.

He added that if the vehicles want to receive the benefit, they must pay tax during May 16th, 2006– Nov 15th, 2008.

As for this tax exemption, the government will lose its budget around 9,000-10,000 million baht per year to support this project.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 04 August 2006

Good idea, but they should make it 2000cc and they should learn the difference between power and displacement.

if vehicles install NGV engine and the expenses of the installation is equal the amount of tax.

Hard to believe.

The Honda Civic GX (CNG = compressed natural gas) vehicle costs $24440 list in the U.S.

The cheapest gasoline Civic costs $24760 list in the U.S. ($15560 if you get the automatic transmission).

That's a price difference of approximately 9 grand.

And as far as conversion is concerned:

I happen to know that four CNG injectors cost $2400 for the Civic, and it's not only the injectors you need, you need the high pressure (3600 psi, no less) tank a.s.o. a.s.o.

Maybe they are talking about LPG (liquid propane gas) vehicles, I hear that the conversion gasoline to LPG doesn't cost much. A LPG tank is not a high pressure tank, only a low pressure tank, for instance.

Many people mix up LPG and CNG, but they are completely different animals.

(Oh, by the way, a CNG "fast fuelling station" costs several hundred thousand dollars, on account of needing a three stage or four stage compressor, whereas a LPG fueling station probably costs only a few thousand.)

Good idea, but they should make it 2000cc and they should learn the difference between power and displacement.

you can make a 2000cc with turbo and 300 hp and a 3000cc with low consumption and 80 hp.

so connect it to the cc is pretty stupid.

Inspector, they do talk about CNG cars.

A CNG conversion costs around 1200 US$ in Thailand (around half for a LPG conversion), but indeed the fuelstations are expensive and as such not too many are around...

Don't know why the civic is so expensive in the states!

However Thailand is very heavily promoting CNG for the simple reason they have it themselves in their offshore gas fields, so if only a small percentage of the cars would run on CNG, it would make a big difference in less oil to import....

it's a long way for the honda cars to travel to usa and the parts are expensive for honda there so it loses favour driving the price of honda there up further. they shold tax imports there highly anyway when so many yanks are losing jobs there.