Hybrids and EV

**Verbl Kint** · February 16th, 2024 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Yatta

Current pricing at 699k means it is not the same value as when grey market sellers were asking for half a million a couple of years ago for similarly-sized EV's. The QQ Ice Cream in China starts at a little over 200k for the base "Pudding" variant while the TOTL variant, the "Sundae", is just under 400k. The 300k markup we are seeing in Manila is quite difficult to stomach.

The base model of the Wuling Bingo, currently on sale for 796k, has four doors, 2 airbags, higher range, and, more importantly (for Philippine roads) has larger 15" wheels compared to the 12" ones on the Ice Cream.

**rickmor** · February 23rd, 2024 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by 17Sphynx17

Brother has a Nissan Kicks. It is required to bring the car in for service every 6 months or "10k kms". if you want to preserve the warranty, then you really have to follow their PMS service intervals or else they may have grounds to deny warrantry if you do not follow the correct intervals. Casa customer service also contacts him when it is almost 6 months to remind him of service and when he plans to schedule, so there's that at least.

It also has a PMS service manual booklet that relates for the non hybrid and hybrid version of the kicks showing maintenance intervals required by Nissan, not just Nissan PH. It is also topped up "supposedly" with full synthetic based on Nissan. but is there reason to doubt whether or not they change the oil? maybe? but that's also why you just have it serviced regardless if you have or have not reached the minimum kms as it reached the 6mos, for the Kicks to preserve that warranty for the power train.

But Nissan NE is at least easy to talk to. We've already talked to them about doing the brakes cleaning every other PMS instead of every 6 months as it didn't make sense. hehe!

There is also 2 coolant reservoirs, one for the engine and the other for the inverter (I think it doesn't loop for the battery but the battery is "Actively" cooled by a fan mounted on top of it getting air under the driver's seat, so need to make sure you don't plug those vent holes with dirty or debris. hehe!)

NOTE: yes, i know the engine isn't running for the whole kms logged in the odometer, but they do not provide a readout for the distance traveled with the engine switched on only, or is there a "running hours" log. They might have a readout once they plug in a computer though but that's not available to end users to view from the dash board. I'm assuming this because Nissan is also able to get a reading of CVTF quality without getting a sample from the transmission. I didn't know they had this information to read from a computer diagnostic before. There is no warning light in the dashboard for this, I thought they checked for contaminants only after draining. hehe!

Nissan just got the Kicks reclassified as a "BEV" with all the tax benefits. while I don't agree with this Nissan should at least provide significant price reductions on the Kicks price. As for the PMS that Nissan prescribes its all corporate greed.

**Dr.Kamiya** · February 27th, 2024 03:31 PM

"Corolla killer:" BYD launches $US15,000 EV in direct attack on legacy makers

$15k = about P840k

If they make full use of EVIDA and TRAIN tax exemptions on BEVs this could be a very serviceable EV for about the price of a 1.5li Vios.

**cityfolk** · March 4th, 2024 09:43 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8uVPqtbFo

China's economy is tanking and in a deflationary spiral so car sales are way down. They're pricing it very low in order to encourage sales abroad.