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  1. Chaparral

    Scout Design Ideas

    True. Gas burners won’t be banned in CA. But the sale of new cars that only burn gas is effectively banned in 2035. You’ll be able to own one or buy a used one but won’t be able to buy a new one.
  2. Chaparral

    Scout Design Ideas

    As far as I understand it the California 2035 target still allows for new plug-in-hybrid vehicle to be sold. If so, it does not mean ‘all electric and the end of fossil fuels’ as media reports have made it seem. Gas engines will still be allowed in new vehicles so long as they also have electric...
  3. Chaparral

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

    The Rivian CEO just did an interview on the Decoder podcast. Among other things he explained why Rivian does not support CarPlay; arguing that the user would need to jump out of CarPlay to open the frunk. To me this highlights the problem of not having physical buttons for things like opening...
  4. Chaparral

    Realistic range concerns.

    A durable 400W portable solar panel is about 34lbs. That’s a tiny faction of the weight of the vehicle. The loss due to carrying extra mass would be very small and even more negligible if the vehicle is parked for long periods while gaining from the panel compared to relatively short driving...
  5. Chaparral

    Summer Reveal

    Since the big reveal is anticipated to happen before the end of summer, the number of weeks to go must now be in the single digits! I can’t wait! I think the marketing team will want to generate some anticipation and give the media some time to plan to attend so the date of the event will...
  6. Chaparral

    Realistic range concerns.

    For the camping trip I did there was about 350 miles (563km) of driving over about 10 hours between when we passing near a charger. This was not very efficient driving. It is unclear to me wether an EV can expect to be able to drive into any RV park and get charged up. I don’t think I would rely...
  7. Chaparral

    What kind of processors will be used?

    RISC-V is open source so the chip manufacturer does not need to pay a license to ARM. But that license cost is very, very inexpensive. Last quarter ARM received $928,000,000 in revenue and during that time about 8,000,000,000 ARM based chips were sold. That means that ARM gets about $0.12 per...
  8. Chaparral

    Realistic range concerns.

    I’m really hoping the Scout has plenty of range or an option for a big battery pack. Some people seem to think electric vehicles should be built with as small a battery as possible and point to average trip lengths as proof that batteries should be small. I think this logic is flawed - a vehicle...
  9. Chaparral

    Realistic range concerns.

    I just did a camping trip to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. This was another trip that would be almost impossible with electric. We camped near Grant Grove in Kings Canyon for 6 nights and had no cell service for the entire week. We had to explore the vast area by car and took 2 trips...
  10. Chaparral

    VW is investing in Rivian

    If this is all about in-car software it is a big mistake! Rivian’s user experience is not as bad as some of the other’s but it’s still not great and the owners I hear just keep hoping future updates will improve things. Meanwhile VW’s in-car entertainment software is apparently built on...
  11. Chaparral

    VW is investing in Rivian

    This deal between VW and Rivian raises so many questions! The details about what exactly VW gives Rivian and what they get in return are murky. The “news reporters” seem to be introducing their own speculation. Do VW remain committed to Scout? Rivian urgently need a factory and have put their...
  12. Chaparral

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

    During Apple’s recent developer conference they released two videos about what they have been calling “the new CarPlay”. When vehicle manufacturers support this new system, iPhone users will have three options: 1) not use their phone at all and use the manufacturers default systems, 2) use...
  13. Chaparral

    Time to license Apple car tech?

    Rumors out of Apple’s Asian supply chain are suggesting Apple are looking to partner with a US based EV startup. The original source does not name Rivian. I doubt factories in Asia would be privy to information about such talks. Some factories have apparently invested speculatively, expanding...
  14. Chaparral

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

    I appeal to Scout Motors to please do direct no hassle sales with one fixed price that everyone pays. Do what is best for the customer because that is what is best for your business. Dealerships introduce too many user hostile behaviors because the sales structure rewards them. My first...
  15. Chaparral

    Dealerships Are Dying

    I’ve had nothing but horrible experiences buying cars at dealerships. Buying a car is something I dread. I think people would actually upgrade their vehicles more often if the dealership experience was not so bad. I have no problem buying a vehicle with a click on a website so long as it is the...
  16. Chaparral

    What If?

    The wind turbine idea would only work if adding it to the front of the vehicle, as proposed, greatly reduces energy loss to drag/friction thereby allowing some of the energy saved to be recovered. However, I think it’s almost certainly the case that air passing through a turbine system would add...
  17. Chaparral

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

    On Tuesday Apple announced in an internal meeting that they are cancelling their plans to build their own EV. Bloomberg (paywalled) About a thousand engineers worked for a decade on a wide range of technologies. Who knows what they invented? If I were Scout I would approach Kevin Lynch and...
  18. Chaparral

    What would Jamie and Chris like to see in a Launch Edition?

    I’d really like to see the factory set up to build customer configurations to order (with direct to consumer sales). A utility vehicle should have lots of configuration options. This surely makes building to order extremely complicated. Starting up a factory that can build many possible...
  19. Chaparral

    Are EV's scared to embrace the option to upgrade your car?

    I’d like to try to clarify what I meant with my last comment. I don’t think there is any logic in thinking ‘this car was designed to be easy to customize therefore it can’t be driven every day’. Both things can be true. What I think would be a mistake is for a design team to focus on an...
  20. Chaparral

    Are EV's scared to embrace the option to upgrade your car?

    “its market focus will have to be the daily driver so they can sell lots of them.” There is a strategy in business known as ‘blue ocean’. This is where all the players in an industry have carved out clear boundaries to define their market and product and they all battle each other in that...
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