Built-in hydraulic or electric jacks
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I've had good luck with electric trailer jacks, so I can definitely see the appeal of the OPs idea. Instead of building four in, maybe pre-wire four outlets near four recessed, reinforced pockets in the frame and provide one jack that inserts into one of those pockets. If someone wanted to buy four jacks from Scout, they'd be happy to sell you more. It'd certainly make rotating my tires in the driveway much easier, but I'd probably stick with my generic floor jack.
Generic floor jack is good for home but if I'm driving at 10pm and get a flat I want to change my tire quickly. Since it's 2025 and we have a spaceship that will get to Mars in the next couple years there's no reason I can't just press a button to jack my car up and change my flat quickly. How much could that cost? I do like the that Scout has a real spare tire. I don't see that in a lot of EVs today
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Basically, and b/c you have a battery pack running across the bottom of the truck, you have very specific jack points. You do not want to damage the battery pack (even with underbody protection). I have a set of jack-pucks in my truck that fit into the jack points, but in reality, most service centers have them already (and have had them for a long time for Teslas). I like having a full set in the truck "just in case" and in case you ever need service from someplace that didn't have them on hand (and I have a full sized spare under the bed). These are what I have: https://jackpucks.com/collections/f...-for-rivian-r1t-r1s-to-change-or-rotate-tires
Well now I just learned something else. I didn’t even think you can’t just jack up the car like an ICE car.
ICE vehicles have what we called a Pinch Weld which is where your supposed to jack a vehicle from since its the strongest point.
I would like to see scout come up with their own puck style thats more permanent and that is always ready like how an ICE vehicle is.
My plan is to never have to jack it up myself. Ha. Leave that to the professionals.
I think you mean unibody vehicles.
Not all ICE vehicles are designed to be lifted at their pinch welds.
Ummmm… Tell that to my Silverado that I lift from the pinch weld. Strongest weld on any vehicle. Scout could go for the typical body on frame chassis jack points. But I highly recommend non of the puck crap. Just make it build into the Scouts, so it always is prepared.
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