A Thai EV brand is also being considered. The Thai ambition covers both the manufacturing of a local EV brand and sufficient setting-up of charging stations, which many experts believe are more important than EVs themselves. EVs can, in fact, change the global economy and politics drastically, and that explains their slow development and growth in popularity. Although the world still needs oil to produce electricity, EVs replacing their petrol-driven counterparts will be of massive economic significance all the same. The EV political will, therefore, needs to come from everyone who says the current use of world energy is not environmentally friendly.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 28, 2018 18:11 UTC