u/jeo1801

Im not really sure what their main social is. So im not updated.

So currently i have a toyota vios 2021 and it feels incredibly boring.

I bought my mom geely coolray 2022 1 week ago and it feels 10 times in comfort/tech/feel/power and looking at its happy customers going 6 years now, i pulled the trigger.

Can anyone convince me why i should buy chinese cars? PHEV even?

Whats the benefit of buying EV brand new?

My thought is to buy it 2nd hand because depreciation outweighs the gas savings? Is that a good move?

For example price of 1.5M EV will be 1.2M(and this is me being generous) in a year, but it saved me 100k in gas.

So basically im down -200k already (including ev savings factored in).

But if i buy the same car 2nd hand next year, i could have saved 200k pesos.

(note: pov of a regular car guy looking at EVs as a way to save money)

Self explanatory title. This is for my curiousity.

When buying aircon, is goldfin or bluefin a must have for you? Because i think durability of an aircon is almost always an issue for me especially i have experience occurences where freon is leaking because of holes in the copper tube.

Think of it this way.

If your net metering, your substituting meralco as your battery(because you let meralco keep the excess power for half the price and buy it back later at double the price, ironic and a stupid process honestly)

But you can directly buy a battery at a 90% efficiency (you keep what you generate with some minor losses)

While net metering is at 38% efficiency (because they buy it from you half the price, and some taxes on top of that, and the net metering process payment on top of that)

Based on efficiency alone, battery wins by a landslide. No joke

I bought all of the materials and i let someone install it instead.

Similar setup costs 550k with a solar company,

But it just cost me 350k.

Who did it like this?

Its the best of both worlds DIY and outsource to solar company.