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A friend stopped by today with a new Tesla Y. AWD, dual motor, long range. I think it cost about 2.5 million. :shock: No time for photos but you can see those on Tesla's Thailand website. What surprised me was that it is not totally silent. When engaged and moving there is a hum coming from it, whi...

What we write on this thread will have no affect whatsoever on what happens to EV sales - you’re either for or against (or sitting on the wall until price, range and infrastructure issues have been resolved). I mean KuhnLA can come out with as many facts and figures as he likes, but he’s never going...

Not sure that’s correct Buks, this article indicates a slowing of total car sales, but EV’s going up partly as a result of the subsidies being offered. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/EV-makers-offer-deep-discounts-as-Thai-auto-market-weakens#:~:text=Thailand%20registered%2076%2C000%20...

Not sure that’s correct Buks, this article indicates a slowing of total car sales, but EV’s going up partly as a result of the subsidies being offered. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/EV-makers-offer-deep-discounts-as-Thai-auto-market-weakens#:~:text=Thailand%20registered%2076%2C000%20n...

I can remember watching Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay in those days) against Henry Cooper back in 1963 when Cooper managed to put Ali on the floor and he (or his corner) managed to damage his gloves, giving him time to recover before going on to beat Cooper after a bad cut to his eye - almost certainly...

In other news................ Bangkok is making big news about moving its electric cabling underground. I'm sure that is a good idea if the flooding is on the way. Irrespective of flooding, it’s a lot more expensive to put HV cables underground than on overhead poles as they have to mitigate agains...

Or try Big Kiang - normally as cheap as Lazada and you can see what you’re buying!!

There are many, many alternatives to lithium. None of them are quite as cost effective as lithium just yet but literally every day there is news on advancements in battery materials that will allow these other materials to rival or even surpass lithium within a few years. Sodium, for instance is al...

Is there not a good chance that if/when the world doesn't need oil anymore, the lithium producers will become all-powerful, and put stupid prices on lithium? We've seen the oil giants control prices for years. Will it not be human nature to see similar controls put on the mining of lithium? There a...

Basic economic principles will always apply, irrespective of additional cartel practices - lithium is a finite resource so as the demand goes up, so will the price - add in some additional manipulation and yes the price goes up even further. Fortunately there’s a lot of research going into alternati...

To quote myself, nice try, but "you're not going to convert me". The one you referenced costs nearly triple what our Mitsu Triton did and I'm pretty sure it'll run problem free for at least the next decade (as our previous Mitsu did). If all charging had to be done at stations that would ...

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^ ^ Some people will be for sure. The US is a big, big country and any extended power outage, like in the winter and after storms when power lines are down etc., rural people who may buy a EV may need something like that just to get to the store. Having said that, there are plenty of rural places t...

In the UK I’ll keep my petrol-hybrid for the foreseeable. In Thailand I don’t drive and never have or will. My view is that battery cars are a dead end; those who want one will buy one but ICE remains far superior for most users. Please tell us how or why you think they are superior. I've own / own...