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[THil08]

I suspect cheap to buy and bankrupting to repair. Sounds like monocoque and mega casting. Will be 5 pieces and a fender bender will cost $22 grand to fix

That’s the auto industry today, cheap to buy, and the need to sell your internals to fix it. My truck has bolts holding on panels, easy and quick to replace them back when the auto industry cared. Now it’s blue glue, and more glue.

Just like Rivian body work? That crap is expensive I’ve seen some body repair quotes.

 

[SrfnFly227]

Production target by end of 2027 - consistent messaging from Scout. We (ROMR) always expected that to mean deliveries to consumers in early '28

I've been under the impression that this has been the official timeline for a while now. Maybe somebody is reporting this as a "new" delay? Or maybe the article is referencing the already speculated delay to the BEV and lumping both models in to that?

As a January 2025 reservation holder, I was thinking my best case for delivery was summer 28. I'm really starting to wonder whether that may be too optimistic.

 

[cyure]

I've been under the impression that this has been the official timeline for a while now. Maybe somebody is reporting this as a "new" delay? Or maybe the article is referencing the already speculated delay to the BEV and lumping both models in to that?

As a January 2025 reservation holder, I was thinking my best case for delivery was summer 28. I'm really starting to wonder whether that may be too optimistic.

There are just so many moving parts to this. I don’t think any of us know exactly when we are going to get our Scouts. Let’s say SM starts production right on time.

Well then we have which trim and options we want in relation to when they are being built. How many reservations holders ahead of us place an order and on and on.

I sound like a broken record, but faith and patience

That’s why I’m here. To pass the time with fellow Scout enthusiasts.

 

[THil08]

We also have to remember that car companies start production normally either in upper first few months of the year, or the first few months of the second half of the year. Nothing in between normally.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I’ve posted my pessimistic prediction in several threads. It’s based on the timing of several other new model releases, both from established manufacturers and from new manufacturers. I suspect there will be a handful (a few hundred to a few thousand) Scouts rolling off the factory floor any given month beginning late 2027. Then serious production volume will ramp up toward Q3 to Q4 of 2028. But this is just me guessing.

The most official word is from Jamie and that’s that production is on target at this time.

That doesn’t mean there will be 250,000 Scouts produced in 2027. That’s simply not going to happen and that isn’t anything that was promised by anyone at Scout. In fact, the only suggestion of a promise by Scout was that production was targeted to begin in 2027.

This is a screengrab from archive.org’s backup of Scout’s website on 28 October, 2024, four days after the reveal and production date announcement.

 

[jasdeep27b]

Ford's New 2028 Electric Truck Will Be a Fully Modern EV for $30,000

Ford's New Mid-Size Truck Will Be a Fully Modern EV That'll Cost $30K When It Goes on Sale in 2027

After a string of EVs adapted from other projects, Detroit’s second-largest maker has finally started with a clean sheet of paper.

www.caranddriver.com

Lets see how Ford using megacasting affects insurance. It seems like they're putting a lot of effort into this.

While at that price point most likely won’t be a scout competitor. But not sure if anyone else sees advertisements for Slate? Feel bad (not really, those cars with their manual windows look ugly) but they are also aiming for a 27-30K electric vehicle, can’t see a lot of people turning to those if ford comes out with an EV truck at a comparable price

 

[J Alynn]

We also have to remember that car companies start production normally either in upper first few months of the year, or the first few months of the second half of the year. Nothing in between normally.

True but as a brand new start up they could come in whenever and treat the first partial year as launch version only to then align with what most manufacturers do , like you noted

 

[THil08]

True but as a brand new start up they could come in whenever and treat the first partial year as launch version only to then align with what most manufacturers do , like you noted

That too is possible

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

While at that price point most likely won’t be a scout competitor. But not sure if anyone else sees advertisements for Slate? Feel bad (not really, those cars with their manual windows look ugly) but they are also aiming for a 27-30K electric vehicle, can’t see a lot of people turning to those if ford comes out with an EV truck at a comparable price

I’ll believe Ford’s claim when I see the truck. I’m from Missouri remember.

 

[Hedges1]

While at that price point most likely won’t be a scout competitor. But not sure if anyone else sees advertisements for Slate? Feel bad (not really, those cars with their manual windows look ugly) but they are also aiming for a 27-30K electric vehicle, can’t see a lot of people turning to those if ford comes out with an EV truck at a comparable price

Ford's new midsize truck will be small and efficiency focused in every aspect. It's NOT meant to compete with anything Scout is producing.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Ford's entire EV line other than the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 mild hybrid is vaporware. There aren't even any public concept drawings yet. And we're supposed to believe they're targeting spring of 2027 for production? I'll believe it when there are vehicles on dealer lots.

 

[jasdeep27b]

Ford's new midsize truck will be small and efficiency focused in every aspect. It's NOT meant to compete with anything Scout is producing.

Correct, I was talking about competing that company Slate Trucks. Ever since I started googling scout motors, I keep seeing their Ads as well

 

[RodorW]

Correct, I was talking about competing that company Slate Trucks. Ever since I started googling scout motors, I keep seeing their Ads as well

Slate has ads? Outside of some YouTube videos I dont think I've seen a thing about them

 

[bakdraft8231]

yea that article is not good for sure......they may be re-visiting putting in a ICE engine as well......Looks like it's the new 6.7l from GMC in a Caddo or Yukon Denali for now....Let's Go Scout..!!!....2029 with a borrowed Coyote engine....

 

[shutthefrontdoor]

Delays are to be expected but Scout is working with a technology, EREV, that will go down in history as a very short interim solution and the more it's delayed, the shorter a period of viability as a solution it will have.

 

[J Alynn]

Slate has ads? Outside of some YouTube videos I dont think I've seen a thing about them

I see tons of them. All over FB even for the 20 minutes a day I’m on I typically see one or two. Seem to be optimizing really well on FB

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

Slate has ads? Outside of some YouTube videos I dont think I've seen a thing about them

Yeah I get Slate ads as well, been seeing them for a while now.

 

[cyure]

Yeah I get Slate ads as well, been seeing them for a while now.

I thought they were supposed to be out this year.

 

[RodorW]

Yeah I get Slate ads as well, been seeing them for a while now.

I can think about hamsters quietly in my car and get ads for cages, but search and look into slate for days and never get a single ad. What strange times we live in

 

[shutthefrontdoor]

Wasn’t Der Spiegel known some time ago for just kind of making stuff up? They’ve supposedly cleaned up their act, but if the official word is this isn’t the case, it hurts their credibility more to have a company rep say that they’re not currently facing delays.

I’m also reading that they apparently have been know to take a biased view of the US in that they don’t particularly like the US. Make of that what you will.

Uh, how about that Airbus A320, uh I don’t know anything about planes (I’ll cop to being a weirdo who will always stick around for documentaries about plane crashes, though).

I checked a bit and cannot find any references to Der Spiegel misreporting anything in the automotive sectors. Perhaps this is a first but all it takes is a bad journalist or two to create the perception which then makes it easy for people to write off anything else, true or not, for all eternity. As the saying goes...trust but verify.