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  1. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    I disagree. The TAM for BEVs is too small. You can see it in manufacturers constantly falling short of sales expectations, projects being cancelled, etc. How do you grow the TAM? The 2 biggest hangups people have are cost and range anxiety. Cost is improving as battery costs come down...
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    Has Scout mentioned anything about battery thermal management?

    Thermal management of batteries are indeed table stakes these days. That is why EV batteries last much longer than the batteries in your laptop, phone, weedeater, etc. Any time spent above 40C (104F) causes permanent degradation of Li-Ion batteries. When it comes to efficiency, I don't know...
  3. strider

    Battery Life Cycle

    Nice to e-meet you but I am glad you are not the CEO of Scout. I have been driving EVs for 15 years now and SSBs are like fusion energy, always just 2 years away. Go back and read your posts in this thread. I can't even count the number of times you said "should, will, etc." It's all pie in...
  4. strider

    Accelleration

    Funny story about another benefit of EVs. A few years back I was in my Tesla Roadster, heading home at around 11:00pm after visiting a friend. Roads were pretty much empty. I was sitting at a stoplight and a guy in a Tesla Model S rolls up next to me. Despite both being middle-aged men, we...
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    Accelleration

    To answer the OP's question, the difference is due to the smaller battery in the Harvester. Why is this so? Li-ion batteries (all batteries actually) have a maximum safe discharge rate. This means that the total amperage available is a function of the battery chemistry and the number of cells...
  6. strider

    What is one feature you hope Scout will include that has not yet been shown?

    Unfortunately this is a regulation and it cannot be disabled, muted, etc. I can say, however, that they are terribly fragile things. Soon after I bought both of my last 2 EVs, I went over some really rough railroad tracks and wouldn't you know it, they stopped making noise. Along those lines...
  7. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    You made post after post about how reliable manual locking hubs are and how unreliable and expensive automatic locking hub are. Scout will have neither of those things. Short of ripping the entire wheel hub off the truck, there is nothing to break. But I'm tilting at windmills now. You've...
  8. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    Ok so for the 3rd time. THE SCOUT WILL NOT HAVE UNLOCKING HUBS. THE HUBS ARE ALWAYS LOCKED. THEREFORE THEY WILL BE MORE RELIABLE THAN YOUR NEIGHBOR'S TRUCK BECAUSE THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO BREAK. THERE IS NO LEVER, NO RELAY, NO SWITCH, NO MODULE. For Pete's sake. Please, just stop.
  9. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Official launch is on Monday 8/11. Supposed to be mid-sized, in between Maverick and Ranger. I think if the price and range are in the ballpark it will sell.
  10. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    So just to follow on to what @TreeKiller and @SpaceEVDriver just said (and what I said a couple pages ago), your statement above is wrong. There is no shift motor in an 2+ motor EV so you will never need to buy one. There is no shift motor because there is no center diff. The hubs are always...
  11. strider

    Interior Colors

    One thing to note as you move to an EV/EREV. It is trivial to pre-cool your car from your phone before you get into it, even in a closed garage (since there's no exhaust). So you will get into the habit of pre-conditioning 10 minutes or so before you plan to leave. Presto, no toasted buns...
  12. strider

    Ideas for Scout Engineers

    Completely agree, but there is a limit. For example, this is insane: For Driver Profiles specifically, you would bind a profile to a key fob/phone key. So when you get into the car it would automatically adjust to your profile based on the key you used. Because of that it would be rare that...
  13. strider

    What is one feature you hope Scout will include that has not yet been shown?

    AM is basically unusable in an EV due to EMF interference. FM works great though and I second (fifth?) the suggestion of FM. I still like to listen to local radio and it's great for those of us in storm country to get local information without electricity/internet.
  14. strider

    Ideas for Scout Engineers

    Yeah, this is where the dance of physical buttons vs touchscreen comes into play. In the case of driver profiles, I think touchscreen is the way to go (my '07 Jeep Grand Cherokee has buttons for the profiles which limits the number). With Tesla it's an icon at the top of the screen that you...
  15. strider

    Ideas for Scout Engineers

    I never change my seating, wheel, or mirror position. If I look up and can't see out of the rear view it's a reminder that I am slouching and to fix my posture. That being said, this thing is a rolling computer. There should be no practical limit to how many driver profiles you can have. No...
  16. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    I am sorry but you are in the tiniest of tiny minorities. Furthermore, I don't think your statement about cutting costs and lessening points of failure is correct. The whole idea of having wheel hubs that lock and unlock is seldom used nowadays, and never to my knowledge in an EV. On "modern"...
  17. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    Luckily International Harvester isn't building our Scouts. You can't build a car company for the 5 people in the world that want manual hubs. Those things went away for non-Baja 1000 vehicles in like 1986. In 2025 I expect the vehicle to do whatever it needs to do in order to get me to my...
  18. strider

    Every receptacle is a potential charging station.

    The problem is that the power is typically in the building. Heavy electrical lines are expensive and priced by the foot so most people choose the lowest-cost install which tends to be close to the building. Personally, I have more of a problem with the 10 curbside pickup spots that are also...
  19. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Sorry I've been out of the loop for a bit but I don't get what's so innovative? Tesla has had Google Maps integrated for years. When you navigate somewhere it will access Google Maps and tell you if the destination will be closed when you arrive, it takes elevation and wind into account when...
  20. strider

    What my car’s built-in solar panels did for me today

    IMO this should be solved in the aftermarket as I don't think that many people would use it. It sounds like something expensive that would break easily (thinking the solar tonneau cover route). Maybe it could be added in the future but I think it would be a distraction for Scout V1.
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