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  • From all of us at Scout Motors, welcome to the Scout Community! We created this community to provide Scout vehicle owners, enthusiasts, and curiosity seekers with a place to engage in discussion, suggestions, stories, and connections. Supportive communities are sometimes hard to find, but we're determined to turn this into one.

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  1. apex96

    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    I have appointments to test drive the Rivian R1T and R1S next Friday, figured It would be good to experience a non-legacy manufacturer's approach to building EVs. I'm willing to give the button free infotainment system a chance. Wanted to test an R2 but alas no open slots available for the...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    It's a great college, even with the party school label. The University has really invested in their infrastructure over the past 10 years. Apple Annie's was an excellent brunch spot, hope it's still a good spot, haven't stopped by in over 8 years.
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    This is what I was trying to convey, although really poorly I admit. For 1-5 hour trips, the time loss is negligible. For 14+ hour trips it adds up. We do a western PA to southwest FL trip around once a year. I try to stretch stops out as long as possible and then stop to let the dogs out...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    I deliberately queried for 350+ kW stations for that one image. You're correct that there are 150+ kw Stations in the state and I did point that out in one of my posts. I see it through the lens of no true "fast" chargers, from a 400 volt pack perspective while long distance road tripping. Most...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    Morgantown was my college home for 5 years, ha. I still go through there for work a lot, Not really much in the way of fast chargers there yet, unless you're a Tesla. Only 150+ KW stations are two Tesla locations, both at Sheetz gas stations and only one is open to non-Tesla vehicles (Sabraton...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    Yep, WV has DCFC stations but most non Tesla stations have outputs of 50 kW to 150 kW with most landing between 62 kW and 120 kW at Ford and Chevy dealerships along major interstate corridors. Unless you own a Tesla, WV really is like the Midwest in some respects, regarding true fast chargers...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    Interesting thing about the Alternative Fuels data is that it considers anything over 50 kW to be DCFC... While true that's a really slow DCFC and the same goes for 150 kW stations as well. WV is mostly comprised of 50 - 250 kW stations and primarily is serviced by Tesla stations with V2...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    Biggest hurdle is getting over the mindset of going to gas stations. Subconsciously I always wanted a large fuel tank so I had a large range number (previously had F150 with 35 gallon tank...) and needed to make fewer stops at gas stations every month. This subconscious thought was hard to break...
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    One Giant Leap Into the World of EV Ownership

    So we’ve had the Equinox EV for 1/2 a year now. We’ve played around with some of the EA, Ionna and Mercedes Benz charging stations in the area. All in an effort to get comfortable with how to use them so that it will be easier when we needed to actually use them. This weekend has been one such...
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    20-24 mpg

    These are YOUR grievances… what other folks do with their vehicles is no concern to you. If someone chooses to use their EREV Scout as a normal gas vehicle… so be it. Once someone purchases or leases a vehicle, how they choose to use it is their decision alone.
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    20-24 mpg

    That's likely where the number is coming from but since no official testing information has been provided it's speculation. Scout doesn't eve have pre-production vehicles on the road to test fuel economy, only mule vehicles.
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    20-24 mpg

    No official numbers for fuel economy or fuel economy equivalent have been released. Anything regarding potential fuel economy you see online or in this forum is pure speculation.
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    NGL… Star Trek Enterprise was way underrated and totally overlooked… I feel it slaps… Also dig Star Trek Voyager… 🤘🏻🤷‍♂️
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    at 75pmh that's not terrible. EPA has a few different tests that are run and the fueleconomy.gov page has some good insights. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fe_test_schedules.shtml
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    We own EVs. Ask Us Anything.

    Looks like AImay have been used to derive this information. I believe the AI is getting hung up on Tesla’s nomenclature for how they named their charging stalls (v1, v2, v3 etc). Here is the US DOT info on the current charging levels and standards...
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