Congratulations on your Terra reservation. Great vehicle & very popular.
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Based in Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle. Super psyched to get a Traveler. My focus is on the ability to confidently travel over a lot of the Fire Service roads; to climb over snowy mountain passes in winter, and to maybe integrate with my home solar/battery to supplement my home electricity in the event of an extended power grid emergency.
Have you made your reservation?
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Yes, definitely. For some reason, though, I've spent the last few days getting into all the YouTube videos that came out six or seven months ago. It's like my excitement level just keeps getting higher and I keep looking for new nuggets and details... so a little but of obsession at this point, I suppose.Have you made your reservation?
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I guess we'll get another crack at Washington's rule on Direct to Consumer Auto Sales before these vehicles are ready for sale. Count me in for a trip down to Olympia to lobby! Are there legislators that we could be reaching out to now?
Glad you are here. We seem to all be equally obsessed. I switched our vacation this year to Ohio so my husband and I couldn’t then at Nats. When you can see them in person go. They are even better.
A great following @Jamie@ScoutMotors he keeps us updated on what’s happening on the manufacturer side. He just posted a July factory update today if you haven’t seen it yet.
He also typically keeps us updated on things going on in different states and if they need us to contact our reps in advance of votes.
Welcome again and have fun. There’s lots of info on here.
Love your great intentions and glad you are here and posting. Welcome aboard the crazy train
Wait til you get sucked in here. It’s like the Hotel California and you’ve been welcomed so now you’re screwed
Is anyone else on here a customer of Seattle City Light, or really into the bi-directional charging stuff? A few years ago, we installed solar panels. As part of the project, we also switched to gas on-demand water hearing, a whole house electric heat pump and got an induction range. We also have a 2019 Kia Niro PHEV. For anyone interested in electrification, my advice would be to switch out your 'plant' and use it for a year before you try to size a solar system. We went from covering 102% of our projected annual load to just about 89%. Still great, and we're happy, but adding a 2nd BEV or whatever you call the car with the Harvester option (EREV?), will likely take us down another 20% or so?
Anyway, I've always been interested in the whole house battery back-up. It's actually kind of silly in Seattle since the area that I'm in rarely has outages and most of our power comes from firm, clear hydropower. Still, there's always the BIG ONE that's looming on the time horizon and who know what the future holds when our robot overlords finally rise up and takeover. So, the appeal of a giant battery on wheels to give me DAYS of back-up over the exorbitant cost of home batteries is great... but my understanding is that you need some kind of battery on site to provide the 'reservoir pressure' to your own little microgrid. At some point I'll need a battery if I want my Scout to back-up my house.
I've priced out a couple of options, but when we got down to it, the big problem was siting the home battery. If we do it outside our house, then we've got the eyesore of a mini-fridge we have to look at in the back yard. If we do it in our garage (which is right below our living room), I'll need to switch out the drywall from 1/4 to 5/8 to meet fire code. That project alone is close to 8K.
I'd love to connect with folks in the Seattle area who might be into gaming this out and talking about different concerns or ideas.
Anyway, I've always been interested in the whole house battery back-up. It's actually kind of silly in Seattle since the area that I'm in rarely has outages and most of our power comes from firm, clear hydropower. Still, there's always the BIG ONE that's looming on the time horizon and who know what the future holds when our robot overlords finally rise up and takeover. So, the appeal of a giant battery on wheels to give me DAYS of back-up over the exorbitant cost of home batteries is great... but my understanding is that you need some kind of battery on site to provide the 'reservoir pressure' to your own little microgrid. At some point I'll need a battery if I want my Scout to back-up my house.
I've priced out a couple of options, but when we got down to it, the big problem was siting the home battery. If we do it outside our house, then we've got the eyesore of a mini-fridge we have to look at in the back yard. If we do it in our garage (which is right below our living room), I'll need to switch out the drywall from 1/4 to 5/8 to meet fire code. That project alone is close to 8K.
I'd love to connect with folks in the Seattle area who might be into gaming this out and talking about different concerns or ideas.
Congratulations on your Traveler EREV. It is a very popular pick.
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Huge Element fan! I had a 2003 until it died on the I90 bridge over Mercer Island after towing a small uhaul from DC to Seattle in 2019. Those little guys were awesome for outdoor adventures AND easy parallel parking in the city. Welcome to Seattle Scouts!
Nice! I love mine, but she's certainly getting up there in years and miles. I think that we're just about roll over 222,000.
Welcome aboard and glad to hear you have a traveler reserved. My choice as well. Enjoy the forum
Does anyone know who was the original author of this bill? Seems like right after election day, we should start a letter writing campaign to the author and co-sponsors to ask them to reintroduce it.
There is a part of me that would love to fly down to Charleston, catch a minor league game, eat some Low Country BBQ and then pick up a U-Haul and drive to Blythewood to pick up my new Scount and tow it back to Seattle and ONLY THEN start driving it and racking up odometer miles.... but there's also another part of me that would rather just have the company deliver it to me (or pick it up from somewhere like Tacoma or Puyallup.
No interest in a cross country adventure learning to love your Scout even more?
I feel like those highway miles would be wasted! I'd like to give my Scout her first miles on the wilds of Washington state!
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