Official: Scout EV Pickup & SUV debut w/ Gas Range Extender, 4x4, BOF, Lockers, Sway Bar Disconnect -- All Specs, Wallpapers, Videos

[Outdoors]

I was early in on the Slate. I thought the same thing. Yet sometimes it fills a niche. If it gets more people to explore 70-80% electric for the first time awesome. Maybe by the next time it will be a 100% EV for the needs they are after. Tech and realization that EV's do most of the what is desired by drivers is great.

FSD isn't everything for 80% of the world.

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[Mini2nut]

Reservations say it all.

VW needs to drop the all electric version due to low demand and simply manufacture the EREV version. 500 mile range solid state batteries are still not a reality yet. The BEV option can be added later as battery cell technology advances.

 

[YDR37]

Reservations say it all.

VW needs to drop the all electric version due to low demand and simply manufacture the EREV version. 500 mile range solid state batteries are still not a reality yet. The BEV option can be added later as battery cell technology advances.

Scout might actually be doing something like that. According to Scout CEO Scott Keogh, the plan is to start by selling the EREV (or "Harvester") version first, because of the unexpectedly high demand:

... the company will likely launch the EREV version of the Terra and Traveler first, Keogh said Tuesday ... "We will most likely lead with the range extender, since that's where the volume is."

However, they still plan to produce pure BEVs later. Apparently it is not difficult for Scout to produce EREVs and BEVs on the same line:

... the purely electric version isn't going anywhere.

"Our intention is to do both," Keogh said during an on-stage interview at the BloombergNEF Summit in San Fransisco, referring to pure EVs and EREVs. ...

Because the gas generator in an EREV doesn't have to power the wheels directly, there's not much of a difference between the Harvester models and the pure EVs. The factory and supply chain are flexible, the CEO says, so if Harvester demand tapers off the company can quickly ramp up EV production.

"You don't have to rip up your factory, rip up your supply chains. You can manage the market as it ebbs and flows," he said.

Note that the Scouts don't put the ICE generator in the frunk, where you might expect it to find an ICE. It actually sits on the frame at the rear, under the cargo area. Maybe they just fill that space with an ICE for the EREV version, or with more batteries for the BEV version.

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