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    Battery Life Cycle

    SSB will make a huge difference in electric cars, and I just think that Scout has a real opportunity here to start with what is new rather than be a part of what is not working well (lithium ion batteries). The idea of a fossil fuel range extender is absurd to me, when SSB will do the job so...
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    Solid State Battery Tech for Dummies

    Quantumscape (leading Solid State Battery) is in stiff competition with Factoral batteries (Mercedes) to produce the first Solid State Battery electric car. Quantumscape has a 2026 goal of producing its first commercial Launch using QSE-5 B1 high volume SSB batteries. It is too bad that Scout...
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    Battery Life Cycle

    I agree with you, I would not buy a Scout for anywhere near that. The premium I would expect for the SSB battery would be in the$5k to 10K range, dropping down to actually less money than Lithium-ion after the first few years. These batteries will be less expensive to produce.
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    Battery Life Cycle

    Within this year, two OEMs will announce launch vehicles with solid-state batteries (SSB) to be produced in 2026, 4 years before the next decade. One will be a Mercedes the other some type of Volkswagen or Volkswagen affiliate. These will both demonstrate that SSB can be produced in high enough...
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    Battery Life Cycle

    I agree. I wouldn't pay more than this for Scout with the solid-state battery. The batteries will be initially more expensive because the demand will far exceed the supply, but the actual cost of producing these batteries is expected to be less than that of lithium-ion batteries due to two...
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    Battery Life Cycle

    PowerCo and Quantumscape are now dealing with OEMs to produce these solid-state batteries. While I agree with you that wide-scale deployment of Solid State Batteries (SSB) will be closer to 2030, the initial use of it with cars that have low volume will start next year. If I was the CEO of...
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    Battery Life Cycle

    Quantumscape, PowerCo's solid state battery developer, has developed the QSE-5 solid state battery and will make these available through PowerCo (Volkswagen battery producer) within the next two years (about the same time Scout will start production) Current Lithium ion batteries will degrade to...
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    Battery tech

    I too will wait, the PowerCo plant in Canada, according to many in the reddit quantumscape post will be producing Quantumscape's solid state battery according to a statement (later walked back) by the new CEO of the plant. The solid-state battery should be able to get 600+ miles of range...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    This is all the more reason to have solid-state batteries rather than lithium-ion batteries. They have a range of about 500 miles, are less weight, are less affected by temperature, and are much less likely to catch fire. There is no need to burn fossil fuel to try and reach this range.
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    I just read that Scout batteries would be provided by PowerCo from Canada. If that is so, it is quite possible (in fact likely) that that plant will be producing solid state batteries (quantumscape/PowerCo agreement). If the scout is equiped with these batteries, they will not need the fuel...
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    Ideas for Scout Engineers

    It will not be necessary to change the battery out at 300,000 using lithium ion batteries if they use instead solid state batteries like Quantumscape which have been shown to last double the lithium ion batteries, or about 500,000 miles, which will likely be longer than the car itself. I will...
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    Ideas for Scout Engineers

    Best way to provide all electric range of over 400 miles would be to install Solid State Batteries which will be available by the time Scout begins production. Stay away from range assist gas generators which obviate the whole idea of electric, which is to stay away from fossil fuel.
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    Realistic EV Range Degradation and Prediction?

    PowerCo plans to have Solid State batteries in FULL production by the end of 2025. Testing in cars will likely be next year, still before production begins on Scouts.
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    Battery tech

    Scouts are not yet in production either. So the plan is that we get yesterday's technology rather than plan to allow for fast breaking technology that by the time of scouts production will have been thoroughly tested and validated?
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    Battery Life Cycle

    Good point, the new Solid state batteries coming into production have 2,000 to 3,000 life cycles ending with only 5% degradation. bi-directional charging will be counted as normal charging cycles. each cycle is going from completely empty to completely full, so if you only go from 100% to 80%...
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    Battery tech

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    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    I agree with most of these suggestions, but I would say that most important of all the tech added would be a solid state battery that would significantly increase the range from 400 miles stated to 600 to 800, battery life from 200,000 miles to over 500,000 with little degradation. Towing...
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    Realistic EV Range Degradation and Prediction?

    another reason to be sure you have a solid state battery in your new scout: number of cycles of battery - current batteries about 1000 cycles (about 200,000 miles) solid state batteries - between 2000 and 3000, or 400,000 miles to 500,000 miles with degredation only 5% at that time while current...
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    Battery tech

    VW, throuh PowerCo plans to mass produce solid state batteries. I am sure that initially they will be more expensive, but the tremendous advantages outweigh the higher cost. I will not buy the Scout I have reserved unless it has a solid-state battery, even if it costs more.
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    Trailer / Towing Discussion

    solution is solid state batteries - significantly longer range, horsepower equivalent to 1000 HP, no fires, charge to 80% in less than 15 minutes, no loss of range when towing, cycles over 1000 (battery will last for 500,000 miles), lighter, cheaper. It would be a tragedy if scouts aren't...
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