Oh Iāve been waiting!!You know the response to this
April 2026 Scout Production Center Update
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Wonāt be me-just saying. Lot of immature boys on this forum and most of age to have watched the Office
One of my favorite shows!Wonāt be me-just saying. Lot of immature boys on this forum and most of age to have watched the Office
As we await the May update, I think we'll start seeing less real details as the updates become more proprietary where Scout Motors might not want to share too much. With that in mind, it'd be cool to start ramping up a monthly Vehicle Development Update. As engineering details are finalized, whether they're small or large, it'd be cool to hear about some of them. With a number of media sources following the stories and updates in the forum, it'd be a way to keep up the excitement of the general public and keep Scout Motors in front of their faces more often. As a side benefit, it keeps us forum monsters fed, even if they're just small morsels. Later, you can put all the details out for a production vehicle reveal. I'm not talking anything crazy/unique that other manufacturers will be copying, but let's see some final light designs, a rear wiper design, what the accelerator pedal will look like, etc.
I'd be more than fine with this. In fact, I think it would drive even higher levels of excitement as this would indicate the vehicles are getting closer and closer to production.
That's what I'm thinking. I've been here for 3 1/2 years and am really looking forward to the exciting time of these becoming a reality!
I feel your pain and the non-proprietary items would be cool.
Other video Iād love to see and tied into updates is showing all the prototype parts that were 3-d printed or fabricated in a shop to show the behind the scenes of how a prototype is born and created. Kind of a āhow the sausage is madeā approach
Yeah, there's that one video with the Traveler as a body-in-white with what appear to be 3D-printed light bezels, trim pieces, etc before it was all polished up. I love the gritty details, what the design team has to go through to make certain things work, etc. I'm also way too fascinated with details of production lines and what the various machines do.
Sounds like there might be a bunch of us so WTH- @Jamie@ScoutMotors any chance of a story or podcast or video showing the parts being made? Maybe early on 3-D printing to @CP1@scoutmotors grinding a seam slightly different to building/installing prototype seats that donāt quite fit to seeing up close quarter panels being stamped, continuous seam welding, etc???? Stuff that isnāt proprietary and wonāt be able to be seen during a factory tour but the details and as @speedrye noted, the gritty details. As a forum of nostalgic tinkerers it would be a cool compilation of the little things. Or short vids of the CAD drawing of the 3-d printed air compressor then seeing it get printed or the headlight housings, etcā¦. And also tricks of the trade-every designer/builder has tricks and what are the bandaids we arenāt seeing that your team grimaces and grins about at every show because āitā held together for another round
The hard part with the concepts is that it is an outside contractor and they have a lot of proprietary work going on there to build these things.
That said, the first early parts are arriving at the factory. Things like early sheetmetal stamping that we can mount on robots for testing purposes. The usual stuff that goes on as you are working on getting a factory up and running.
We will be going into the factory to do some walk and talk style tours of the progress going on. Stay tuned...
That said, the first early parts are arriving at the factory. Things like early sheetmetal stamping that we can mount on robots for testing purposes. The usual stuff that goes on as you are working on getting a factory up and running.
We will be going into the factory to do some walk and talk style tours of the progress going on. Stay tuned...
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Parts is parts-vehicles or hot dogs, some are just more fun to see being manufactured
"Walk and talk" factory tour videos, yes! If you can, ask them to do at least a short part with the camera on an electric cart going through the main building. That will make the scale of this new effort a lot more obvious.
So the question to ask isā¦ are these stampings that will go on test mules running around the country? Even if camouflaged will they be recognizable as Scouts? Or will they be Frankensteinās with few recognizable features?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm thinking it's more likely to be inner structure, floor pan or firewall sheet metal, nothing we'd ever know about or recognize on a test mule.So the question to ask isā¦ are these stampings that will go on test mules running around the country? Even if camouflaged will they be recognizable as Scouts? Or will they be Frankensteinās with few recognizable features?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The exciting part to me is that this means they've already got tooling set up and producing some of the structure, which implies the design is pretty well ironed out. Makes me wonder where this tooling is located... Either way, this is a BIG step towards having test mules running around this year.
I have to believe itās a combo and exterior sheet metal will start being added. They had those other frankenstein test mules they ran over winter in Europe so I would think new mules will be more likely to incorporate final parts and pieces since stamping will soon be ready if Iām reading between the linesSo the question to ask isā¦ are these stampings that will go on test mules running around the country? Even if camouflaged will they be recognizable as Scouts? Or will they be Frankensteinās with few recognizable features?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I hope you're correct! Just love seeing any progress...
I'm 5 months savings away from the base price and it's starting to get real!
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