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A Man Was Ordered to Build a Fence to Hide His Boat. He Asked an Artist to Paint the Boat on the Fence There’s a new high water mark for passive aggressiveness in the visual arts—and the pun is intended. When the town of Seaside, California ordered homeowner Etienne Constable to build a fence to con...

^As far as Thailand goes, I think that access to cheap EVs from China combined with abundant solar resources will be the main driver of change. There is a point in the not too distant future when the realisation will come that drilling stuff out of a desert, shipping it over 8,000 km and trashing th...

Yet another new model from BYD:

BYD launches sleek new Tesla Model Y rivaling Sea Lion 07 electric SUV starting at $26K
https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/byd-laun ... rting-26k/

How does that work for the millions of people who live in apartments and condos without a socket in each parking bay and being charged double for their power? I live in an apartment like that in Luxembourg so I don't have a car, an ebike is more practical. In Thailand, you can buy electric motorcyc...

If EVs take off in Thailand and become the norm as y'all hope for, how will the charging stations cope? During busy times and long weekends (when most Thais hit the roads), gas stations are rammed with vehicles (98% ICE), if even a quarter of them were EVs, the waiting times to get a charging space...

^The other major problem is that Suvarnabhumi is comparatively near. It's hard to be successful with an airport that's only a three hour drive away from a large established one.

But, the real question I guess is how does this "strangle innovation" when allowing a Chinese Invasion takes all? To be honest, when I see how many western car companies are behaving, I get the impression that they've actually already given up and instead of trying to compete, they're jus...

The U.S. will quadruple tariffs on EV imports all the way to 100% as the Biden administration looks to prevent a “China shock” like the early 2000s That might benefit US car makers in the short term but it could be the end of them after that as it will just serve to strangle innovation and leave th...

In the EV future, Thailand, the ‘Detroit of Asia,’ could be a key China hedge for automakers https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/12/with-evs-the-detroit-of-asia-wants-to-be-china-hedge-for-automakers.html “Thailand is a possible path to China-like auto parts costs, allowing low-cost production,” says Craig...

Here is some useful information from an Australian website on home charging an EV from solar; EV Explainer: Charging your electric vehicle with excess solar power https://thedriven.io/2024/05/09/ev-explainer-charging-your-electric-vehicle-with-excess-solar-power/ I believe from articles I've read re...

Isuzu will invest $900 million to build EV pickups in Thailand "Thailand’s transition to electric vehicle manufacturing received a turbocharge last month when Japanese automaker Isuzu said it will invest $900 million to manufacture electric vehicle (EV) pickup trucks in the Kingdom." https...

^The Japanese worked out back in the eighties and nineties how to circumvent trade protectionism in the auto industry by opening factories in the markets you want to be in.

BYD Shark: The electric pickup truck set to make waves in Mexico this month "BYD, the Chinese automaker known for its electric vehicles, is set to make a global debut of its new pickup truck, the BYD Shark, in Mexico on May 14th. The BYD Shark is the company’s first electric pickup truck and is...

^Yes, I've been drinking Carabao beers in my local bar on the last couple of trips to Hua Hin and I prefer it from the other Thai mainstream beers.

...refuelling in 5% of the time...

If the ICE car had just been invented, there wouldn't be any fuel stations yet so range anxiety could be an issue.