Recent content by SpaceEVDriver

  • 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. SpaceEVDriver

    Service Center

    My brother is retiring after more than 30 years of teaching automotive science at the high school and community college level in a rural community. Even when certs worth $5k-$20k of education were offered for free for BEV, PHEV, and HEV technicians, kids wouldn't take them. Because they'd been...
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    CYURE GOES TO CHICAGO 12/10/2025

    Amateur radio. I have my own lidar system I might install under the vehicle to create 3D maps of the trails. I often install a secondary recording system "black box". Other things...
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    Service Center

    But how many independent service centers are going to be comfortable taking on a brand new vehicle? And will (and how) they get warranty work paid? What about recalls? Will their work be guaranteed by Scout? It's one thing for me to do my own repairs in my workshop. It's quite another to ask a...
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    Service Center

    This kind of marketing speech is annoying. Even if they had 1400 roofs on day 1, they won't have as many customer-facing Scout employees as vehicles sold. And if they do, they'll be bankrupt very quickly. They'll never have a 1:1 relationship. It would be foolish to attempt to do that. IMO...
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    Service Center

    I've said it before. The smartest way for Scout Motors to provide service would be to train and fund independent service centers to provide service. This would not only distribute the wealth of experience and skills, it would avoid the back-half of dealer nonsense, it would enable more rural...
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Ionna is expanding at a fantastic rate. https://insideevs.com/news/781612/ionna-dc-fast-chargers-expansion-fast/
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    There's no standardized, official difference between Level 2 ADAS and Level 2+ ADAS. The term "Level 2+" is marketing.
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    Harvester Battery Size

    I agree. It’s also an investment…which is unusual in the world of automobiles where almost everything else is a depreciating asset.
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    One feature that made you pull the the trigger on a reservation….

    For me my anti-autonomous-driving stance is about two things. First, I am a gearhead and love driving. Second, the technology simply isn’t capable right now. I’m not willing to pay to be a test subject. The technology required to drive within the lines is pretty well established—I had...
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    Do You Want Your Scout To Have A Hands-Free Driving System?

    https://brx-content.fullsight.org/site/binaries/content/assets/sae-org/content/news/blog/sae-j3016-visual-chart_5.3.21.pdf
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    Harvester Battery Size

    A level 1 got us through two years of my being too busy with other things to install our L2. By the end, this included using two L1s for two EVs, one with a 92 kWh battery and the other with a 131 kWh battery. We have never charged on a local DCFC in our 80,000 miles of driving. I’ve done...
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    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    We weren’t talking about you. We were impressed by your motorcycle packing skills. That left us wondering why “overlanders” need a 3-row SUV with sand ladders, HiLift jacks, two spares, five different MOLLE panels filled with axes, shovels, and every fancy, unused tool imaginable to go 20...
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    Harvester Battery Size

    If you drive 12,000 local miles per year, you would break even in the first year by paying for a Level 2 charger installation, if you can afford to pony up the capital.
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    The US automobile industry falls further behind. :( The October YTD global EV sales accounted for about 17% of all vehicle sales. All vehicle (not just BEV) sales in the US accounted for 18% of global sales. In other words, EVs are as big a world market as the entire US light vehicle market...
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    Towing with an EV - Rivian R1S Style

    Out here in my haunts, there's about a 50% chance that the RV campsite operators will tell you that the charging of EVs is prohibited. There’s one reasonable argument against supporting EV charging at *some* RV campsites: The NEC didn’t, historically, require RV campsites to meet the 125%...