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A few major rare earth mineral deals being signed this week. Hopefully it helps Scout and other EV manufacturers, with being able to manufacture batteries here in America.
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I love the way the mustang looks, but the Subaru has door handles!
I’m just not a fan of EV styling. Scout is the only brand that did it right.
Agreed. Just because it's an EV it doesn't have to look like an EV with overdone lighting. Scout didn't follow this trend and nailed the design.
Looks like SM made the headline here...
www.motortrend.com
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Of these brands they tried to bring back did any of them invest $2 billion in a plant like SM is? And I really feel that this forum and they way they are making this a community driven endeavor is really going to assist in them being successful.Looks like SM made the headline here...
Reviving Car Brands Is Risky Business: These Are the Biggest Successes and Failures
Many automakers have tried to bring the past back to life. A few succeeded spectacularly. Most did not.
Faith and patience.
The key is Scout returning to a hot segment: off-road capable SUV's and trucks as opposed to niche sports cars.
That too and the starting price. Right now the anticipated starting price isn’t that much more than the average cost of a new car right now.
Bad Boy for Life: 2026 Porsche 911 Turbo S First Drive Review
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Porsche is another company that hasn't fell for the EV design stuff yet i don't think. They look like Porsche.
There's really 2 Porsches these days: ICE and EV and the 911 falls squarely in the more traditional ICE category. The EV design stuff can, and hopefully will remain, specific to the EV mainstream cars like Taycan/Macan/Cayenne.Bad Boy for Life: 2026 Porsche 911 Turbo S First Drive Review
Porsche’s new hybrid-powertrain 992.2 version of the 911 Turbo S brings back its big-swinging reputation, and then some.
Porsche is another company that hasn't fell for the EV design stuff yet i don't think. They look like Porsche.
Slate service plan has been announced.
I’m willing to wait to become better informed after some longer-term testing, but my overall impression of highway charging via induction while driving is that it’s very inefficient, it’s likely to have major reliability problems, and the roads are going to be much more expensive to maintain.
I think a better solution is to start turning parking lot spaces into induction charging spaces. Then you don’t have to worry about the three or four L2 charging spots. You just park, engage the charging app, and go about your day.
I was in Germany last year and they have overhead charging for EV long-haul trucks. Pretty much like electric trains, trams and etc, but there’s no transfer of goods when the truck has to go local. When the truck leaves the electrified section of the autobahn, it just automatically disengages from the charging lines and has enough juice to go where it needs to go. When it re-enters the autobahn, it re-engages charging. I think that disconnects maintenance of the electrical from the roadway, which reduces maintenance costs for both. And it’s an easy way to add charging-on-the-go to an existing roadway.
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But it’s not as flexible, of course. A truck-height charging rail is way too high for a passenger vehicle charging rail and a passenger vehicle charging rail is way to low for a truck and dangerously low for pedestrians, etc.
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