{"id":5601,"date":"2020-08-25T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T02:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T02:33:16","slug":"nxpo-recovery-forum-opportunities-of-thai-industry-in-the-future-of-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/5601\/","title":{"rendered":"NXPO Recovery Forum: Opportunities of Thai industry in the future of mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NXPO\u2019s Recovery Forum&nbsp;took place&nbsp;on 20 August 2020. The recent&nbsp;weekly&nbsp;forum&nbsp;focused on opportunities&nbsp;of Thai industry in&nbsp;the&nbsp;future&nbsp;of&nbsp;mobility, with guest speaker&nbsp;Assoc.&nbsp;Prof.&nbsp;Dr. Yossapong&nbsp;Laoonual, President of&nbsp;the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand (EVAT)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Assistant to the President for Sustainability&nbsp;of King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26.jpeg\" alt=\"A person sitting in front of a computer\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-5602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-27.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people sitting at a desk\n\nDescription automatically generated\" class=\"wp-image-5603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-27.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-27-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-27-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Yossapong,\u00a0the auto industry has\u00a0lately\u00a0witnessed the transformation\u00a0due to heightened\u00a0awareness\u00a0and concern on\u00a0the environment and\u00a0climate change, along with\u00a0the\u00a0change in consumers\u2019\u00a0perception\u00a0with regard to the safety of\u00a0the\u00a0transportation.\u00a0Countries around the word are promoting clean technologies in order to lessen pollutions, thus saving the environment and a good example is the use of electric vehicle\u00a0(EV). In Thailand, a number of actions have been implemented to minimize damages caused by vehicles\u00a0to the environment and human health, including campaigns\u00a0on public transportation and carpooling as well as the promotion of\u00a0EV. The number of hybrid cars in Thailand has increased significantly in the past two years. The\u00a0market expansion\u00a0should have continued, had it not been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To effectively move forward the Thai EV industry, all parties involved, including consumers, must share the same goal, i.e. to save the environment, and the government must have clear policies, mechanisms and measures to control, monitor and support the industry. Dr.&nbsp;Yossapong&nbsp;cited the response of Thailand on the COVID-19 as a fine example of everyone in the society sharing the same view and goal of fighting the COVID-19, the government doing its part in&nbsp;implementing a number of&nbsp;measures to control the spread&nbsp;and&nbsp;everyone&nbsp;complying&nbsp;to&nbsp;the measures. As everyone moves in the same direction towards the goal, Thailand has been able to&nbsp;effectively&nbsp;control&nbsp;the spread of the disease. The promotion of EV industry will not only help mitigate environmental problems, but also&nbsp;foster related tech industries such as digital industry, IoT (internet of things), software and application.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Kitipong&nbsp;Promwong,&nbsp;NXPO President, shared his view that Thailand has potential to develop its EV industry to a prominent position&nbsp;with the supports&nbsp;of the government, ranging from establishing standards&nbsp;of EV and parts, to rolling out incentive measures to promote the use of EV, developing capacity of human capitals working in the manufacturing to accommodate the growth of this industry&nbsp;which will attract&nbsp;more&nbsp;investment into this&nbsp;promising&nbsp;sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NXPO\u2019s Recovery Forum&nbsp;took place&nbsp;on 20 August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-26.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}