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At around 1:13 of the video you can see flame shooting down....see above snapshot. At first I thought this might be the LFP 12V auxiliary battery but from some googling I guess the 12v battery is under the rear seat. If the Seal was upright on its wheels that location would be on the right rear next to the charging port. I'm just trying to figure out what would cause the flames to shootout/shoot straight down like under pressure from this location in the trunk?

If you are talking this post there is nothing special there....standard stuff of the TM95 1 year address reporting form, a TM6 "if" you have one, the 1 year notification card/slip you get when initially receiving your LTR or doing a 1 year report, and if having someone else doing the reporting for you an authorization form from you saying it OK. Standard issue stuff....pretty much the same stuff for people doing an in person 90 day address report in Bangkok. And I've already done my first 1 year LTR address report in-person and have done 90 day address reports in person when I was on a Non O type visa/extension. Yeap...nothing special here....just standard forms immigration wants.

Anything is possible but I would think that might only become an issue at mid point renewal time where they would look back 1 year and possibly be hard core on showing $100K over the past 12 months.. Having an actual policy would prevent such but when self-insuring I guess there is that possibility come renewal time.

I expect "all" businesses do some creative accounting and transactions for sales, business, profit, tax, etc., purposes. I expect that is what Toyota did for their Bz4x EV model which for "all 12 months" of 2023 only a total of 60 registrations occurred. Then for Jan 2024 there were 66 registrations (more than for all of 2023) with zero registrations since then for Feb, Mar, and Apr 2024. That implies to me Toyota took action in Dec 2023 or Jan 2024 to offload their Bz4x stock which involved registration....maybe a mass sell at wholesale price to an out of country buyer, transfer to their preowned vehicle division (Toyota Sure), or some other creative sell off.

From looking at the DLT registration data 66 Bz4x's were registered in Jan and then for months Feb thru Apr there have been zero sales. And even in 2023 they had very few sales. I bet those 66 Bz4X registrations in Jan was just some type of Toyota creative accounting like maybe selling/transferring all remaining Bz4x in their new car inventory to maybe Toyota Sure (preowned car division) who in turn would try to sell them. Or maybe an wholesale sale to some company in another country and they Bz4s's where then shipped out of country. Yeap, my gut feel is Toyota just need some type of creative booking keeping which involved registration.

Nope...I can't explain why car250.com's reported registration amounts does not match the DLT registration data that DLT posts on their website. https://web.dlt.go.th/statistics/ I checked the DLT website again this morning...and it still reports the same thing as shown in above snapshot from a day or so ago when DLT posted their updated data for April registrations.

Not sure what posts you are talking about other than maybe my earlier post of a BOI webpage notice basically saying your LTR visa can be cancelled if you fail to maintain visa requirements. Really zero news there as that immigration policy applies to "any" type of visa issued even Non O/OA type visas. It's not like you can qualify for a visa and once it's stamped into your passport that you can discard all/any of the requirements the next day such as not having the required income, not having medical coverage, etc., if the visa had such requirements. HOWEVER, BUT, if a person was dumb enough to fail to maintain visa compliance requirements, it's not like Immigration is constantly watching/checking to ensure you maintain visa requirements....like checking once a year to ensure you still have medical coverage for your LTR visa, whether you still meeting the income requirements, etc. Just like Immigration don't run checks like maybe every 3 months that person still meets 1 year Non O/OA visa requirements for income, etc. Now if a person ended-up running up a hospital bill say for $50K USD, couldn't pay it due to no health insurance polciy or self-insure capability (i.e., didn't have $100K USD in a bank) and Immigration Police got involved in trying to assist the hospital in getting you to pay your bill, well, Immigration now has justification to cancel your visa since obviously you didn't maintain one of the LTR visa requirements. Now how many years BOI/Immigration will want to look back come the mid term 5 year renewal/extension point is really an unknown as the first batch of LTR issued visa will not come due their midterm extension until Sep 2027. My gut feel is they will only look back one or two years maximum which is identical to the lookback period for some visa requirements when initially applying for an LTR visa. However, just like when initially applying BOI/immigration can ask for additional documentation if they have concerns about your application....that is, want some additional proof beyond what is typically required. No real news there either as that pretty much standard Immigration procedures. The only annual requirement for an LTR visa is the annual address reporting where no checks of income/medical/etc., are done....you are only reporting your current address....identical to how people on a 1 year Non-O/OA type visa must do 90 days address reports. If you have creditable posts saying otherwise please provide some links to them.

https://autolifethailand.tv/ev-register-april-2024-thailand/ Total registrations for 100% electric vehicles in Thailand April 2024 total 4,088 vehicles | decreased 18.3% Deepal S07 reigns as champion. Decreased -18.3% ! The number of registrations for 100% electric vehicles in Thailand in April 2024 totaled 4,088 cars, a proportion of 13.3% of new cars, Year 1 nationwide, 38,022 cars. ChangAn Deepal S07 was the champion with 754 cars. ChangAn Deepal S07 ranks 1st with a total of 754 cars, followed by 2nd place BYD Dolphin with a total of 500 cars and MG 4 takes 3rd place with a total of 478 cars. Honda e:N1 registered 63 cars in the first month. Total vehicle registrations for the 100% electric vehicle group (BEV: Battery Electric Vehicle) in April 2024 totaled 4,088 vehicles (representing 13.3% of total vehicle registrations in Thailand, R.Y.1, totaling 38,022 vehicles). Top 15 rankings with the highest number of registrations in April 2024 Number 1 ChangAn Deepal S07 : 754 units Number 2 BYD Dolphin: 500 cars 3rd place MG 4 : 478 cars 4th place NETA V : 381 cars Number 5 Aion Y Plus : 301 units Number 6 BYD Atto 3 : 217 cars Number 7 BYD Seal: 180 cars Number 8 ORA Goodcat: 169 cars Number 9: Tesla Model 3: 159 cars Number 10 ORA 07 : 129 cars No. 11 Volvo XC40 EV: 109 cars Number 12 Volvo C40 : 97 cars Number 13 MG EP : 71 cars No. 14 Tesla Model Y: 65 cars No. 15 Honda e:N1 : 63 cars Statistics on cumulative registrations of 100% electric trains in Thailand Year 2020: January - December 2020, total 1,056 cars. Year 2021: January - December 2021, total 1,935 cars. Year 2022: January - December 2022, total 9,729 cars. Year 2023: January - December 2023, total 76,314 cars. An increase of 66,585 units from the previous year, a growth of +684.4%. Year 2024: January - April 2024, total 26,377 vehicles. The total number of 100% electric vehicle registrations in Thailand in April 2024 totals 4,088 vehicles, accounting for 10.75% of the total number of 38,022 vehicle registrations nationwide.

Here you go for Jan 2024. A total of 779 Suzuki cars registered in Jan with 37 of them being the Ciaz.

Yea...the explosion clearly shows it coming from the rear-end of the car...the trunk area of the car. And when I saw that I immediately thought that's a CNG cylinder exploding; not an EV which has its traction battery on the middle bottom portion of a car. Plus, an exploding EV traction battery would include plenty of flames...sustained flames...but no flames in this video...not even a brief amount of flames.

Above post has received the Toyota seal of approval for more promises of cheap & efficient hydrogen-powered vehicles for the masses being just around the corner....just hang on a little longer...in the interim please continue to buy Toyota ICEV.

@ExpatOilWorker And here is the Apr 2024 DLT registration data for the Suzuki Ciaz you asked about. 547 total Suzuki models registered in April with 147 of that total being their Ciaz model (predominately the Ciaz GL CVT model which is probably the model that had the BIG price cut/promotion a month or so ago).

Normally most of the updated vehicle registration data is posted a couple of "business/working days" into the new month. The more detailed data like by specific model number is one of the last ones being posted/updated. Now I noticed the DLT has posted new registrations for "all" categories of ICEV/EV vehicles for Apr 2024....and it's lower than Jan, Feb, or Mar. See snapshot below. My mark on the left hand side is pointing to the RY1 vehicle category which is for Passenger Cars of 7 or less people." A downward trend in vehicles registrations is continuing probably due to high individual debt, tightening loan requirements, people gun-shy to buy right now due to cut-throat price cuts, etc. https://web.dlt.go.th/statistics/index.php

Yeap...you're right...Whoops...my bad.

If must be some type of "sales/bookings" numbers that AutoLife collects (dreams up) somehow vs actual govt DLT "registrations" (i.e, sale done with blue book issued). I looked back thru some older Autolife articles and apparently they issue articles based on "sales" numbers (lord know how they come up with those numbers and if maybe it includes just bookings vs actual completed sales)...and articles based on DLT registrations where it's clear in the article its based on DLT "registrations." Like below Feb 2024 article based on registration ...notice not even "one" Suzuki Ciaz is reflected for Jan or Feb 2024 although actual DLT registration data does reflect a couple dozen being registered for each of those months. Any "sales" data from AutoLife I would take with a planet size grain of salt since they have never explained what constitutes a sale and where they get the sales data. Now their articles based on registrations which come from the DLT and represent an actual completed sale with blue book issued seem to be at least in the ballpark. https://autolifethailand.tv/register-ev-bev-thailand-Feb-2024/