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Finally, we have confirmation on battery tech. As expected, we will see PowerCo batteries in the Scout. With VW releasing first in Ducati and the Skoda in the European market, this is big news for the solid star PowerCo/Quantumscape hopeful! https://www.autonews.com/volkswagen/scout/an-scout-battery-source-0907/
Non-paywalled version of the Autonews article. Scott Keogh says, "Scout’s current order book stands at 130,000 to 140,000"!

 
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Here's something that stuck out to me:


While Scout’s body-on-frame platform was engineered and created specifically for U.S. consumers, it can be adapted for right-hand markets such as South Africa and Australia, Keogh said, but he added the brand is focused on successfully launching the Terra and Traveler in the U.S.

The Blythewood site, in a cradle of automobile production, much of it operated by European automakers, was also selected because of its close proximity to Charleston, S.C., a major port and source of U.S. light-vehicle exports.

“We’re not naïve to global markets. But I’m not going there,” Keogh told reporters. “I have a factory to build. I have a car to engineer. I have timelines to hit. And when that gets done, the day this car rolls down the factory line, come visit us and I’ll tell you more about Australia.”

Good for Scott, sticking up for the company and for getting the North America Market settled first.
 
While Scout’s body-on-frame platform was engineered and created specifically for U.S. consumers, it can be adapted for right-hand markets such as South Africa and Australia, Keogh said, but he added the brand is focused on successfully launching the Terra and Traveler in the U.S.
Funny, vacationed in S. Africa a few years ago. Google says they drive on the left side of the road, but I never noticed it. All the vehicles I road in were left side driving (Toyota Land Cruiser truck and SUV), and I could have sworn all the roads were drive on the right hand side. Big country, and we stayed rural and Dutch colonized areas (rather than British or German). Driving on the left side of the road is more of a British thing.
 
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Funny, vacationed in S. Africa a few years ago. Google says they drive on the left side of the road, but I never noticed it. All the vehicles I road in were left side driving (Toyota Land Cruiser truck and SUV), and I could have sworn all the roads were drive on the right hand side. Big country, and we stayed rural and Dutch colonized areas (rather than British or German). Driving on the left side of the road is more of a British thing.
most of us think we are the only ones that drive on the right side of the road, with LHD, when really alot of countries do it too.
 
Funny, vacationed in S. Africa a few years ago. Google says they drive on the left side of the road, but I never noticed it. All the vehicles I road in were left side driving (Toyota Land Cruiser truck and SUV), and I could have sworn all the roads were drive on the right hand side. Big country, and we stayed rural and Dutch colonized areas (rather than British or German). Driving on the left side of the road is more of a British thing.
Strange. I was there exactly one year ago. The two Toyotas (Fortuner, Corolla Cross) I rented were were both RHD and on every road and city people drove on the left. I was in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Mbombela, Graskop, Sabie, Paarl, and Stellenbosch. Even the Ford Mustangs are RHD.