As Thailand ramps up its electric vehicle (EV) industry, the country will be producing batteries as well as assembling EVs for the domestic and regional markets. Most of them are from Chinese companies with battery producer, Svolt recently holding the first battery pack offline ceremony at its plant in Sriracha Chonburi. The battery pack that was taken offline that day was a 60-kWh lithium iron phosphate (LCTP) battery pack with a range of over 500 km. It uses Svolt’s L600 series cell products a

A new exterior colour, Pistachio Green, is now available for the 2023 Ora Good Cat EV in Malaysia. It’s a single-tone exterior and is a lighter, pastel green compared to the two-tone Verdant Green. Just to recap, there are two variants available for the 2023 Ora Good Cat - 400 Pro and 500 Ultra - priced at RM 140,500 and RM 170,500 (OTR without insurance) respectively. The new Pistachio Green colour is exclusive to the 500 Ultra variant. Like the Verdant Green and Hazel Wood Beige colours, the i

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and PLUS Malaysia have a joint venture that sees the duo setting up direct charging DC fast charging stations along the PLUS highway with the GWM Ora Good Cat getting bragging rights as the first EV to be charged up at the TNB Electron charging station. The venture is part of TNB’s RM 90 million investment over a two-year period to build more DC charging stations in the country. There’re currently three TNB Electron charging stations currently in operation located at

Thailand buyers seem to be very accepting of the 2022 Ora Good Cat with it netting over 10,000 bookings in just a week. The cool electric cat car is poised to snatch the best-selling EV title in the Kingdom in 2022 from the MG ZS EV but it seems to hit a snag thanks to a selfish war happening thousands of kilometres away. Ora’s parent company, Great Wall Motors (GWM) Thailand has announced on its website that it will be pausing further reservations for the Good Cat indefinitely starting today (2

The much-anticipated Ora Good Cat EV has just been previewed in Thailand. With just the official prices pending, we now detail the three variants that are rumoured to go on sale at prices starting just under THB 1million (RM 125k), imported from China. The Ora Good Cat is slated to be launched on 29-Oct 2021 and will be offered in three variants: 400 Tech 400 Pro 500 Ultra The 400 and 500 indicate their maximum range in km. The 400 Tech and Pro are supplied by a 47.8 kWh lithium-ion phosphate ba

Great Wall Motors' (GWM) entry into Thailand has been public for some time, and their affably-named Ora Good Cat and Ora Black Cat - sometimes known as the R1 - are among the models slated to launch there. Rather curiously only the Black Cat is right-hand drive (RHD). The Good Cat still has its steering wheel on the left, which is to be expected as there isn't an RHD version of this car yet. Owing to this, the source expects that the smaller car between the two will be launched in Thailand first