Hua Hin Forum

I can now play "My EV is bigger than yours!" because our new mobile workshop is electric:

Personally, I would bin UK Labour's idiotic "Zero" or "Green" bollocks and re-open the North Sea Gas and Oil Fields - masses of jobs, huge investment, LESS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT!! and hell, less reliance on others during this period of Tariffs and Warfare. This is supposed t...

^Not like the oil industry beautifying the landscape:

^There’s bound to be a period of intense competition that many companies won't survive.
It was the same in the early days of petrol car production, in the start of the 1920s there were over 180 manufacturers in the UK alone and the vast majority of them fell by the wayside.

^Yes, I agree about the massive government support but why isn't the west promoting the future?

At the other end of the market, a Chinese telephone company that only started making cars four years has just got the production car EV lap record at the Nurburgring: The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is now the Nurburgring’s fastest electric production car https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/xiaomi-su7-ul...

BYD have started selling their smallest car in Europe, it’s called the Seagull in some markets but the Dolphin Surf here, it’s not a bad looking car considering that it starts at under 20,000 euros. Mind you, that's about double what it costs in China but still a reasonable deal considering the comp...

I think there's another issue with retiring to Thailand, or any other country for that matter and that is increasing retirement ages. I've been visiting Hua Hin several times a year for over twenty years and I'm still meeting people who've been retired there for that long because they finished worki...

A BYD Dolphin Was Driven 140,000 Miles. Here's How It Held Up A rideshare driver in Brazil has piled on more than 100,000 miles in two years. The results seem promising. The Brazil-spec BYD Dolphin uses a 94 horsepower motor, fed by a 45 kWh battery. It is rated for 251 miles of range (405 km) in Br...

^At the moment, it’s just on departure but last month I arrived on at TDAC and departed via the automated gates without any problem.

^As far as I’m aware, it’s for anyone with an electronically readable passport, there aren’t any mention on signs about visa types.
I’ve done it several times now and it’s a big improvement on what was there before and obviously they’re used to people not having exit stamps.

I’m also thinking of going for the part time option on retirement but my partner is happy with me doing that because I think that is big issue for many. If you have no connections in Thailand, it’s obviously easy to go elsewhere but if you’re settled with a family, persuading them to move might not ...

I don't disagree with the article but just one observation, the amounts required for a retirement visa, 800,000bt or 65,000 a month haven't changed in the twenty odd years I've been coming to Thailand and if they had been index linked, they would have about doubled which would probably price out many.

^So I shouldn't buy a car until Thailand produces its own?

^To be honest, I agree with you but if I buy a TV or lawn mower in Thailand, it's made in China so I don't see any difference with buying a car, it’s just another consumer product.
Thailand doesn't manufacture a domestic EV anyway so it's not like there's a choice.