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Through the Merch and my job, I've introduced about 1,000 people to the new scouts. Because I drive a bolt a surprising amount of people like to ask about it, then with casual conversation, and I have the opportunity to show them the scouts
I feel that way after 4 hours so you are still doing better than some
I think all of us at Scout have had the situation where someone socially asks where you work/what do you do and you tell them Scout and most people have no idea. Things will radically change when vehicles are on the road.
I’m more in the people don’t know or heard but don’t understand. They will all come around and when they do that res list will scream past 200K
Once they hit the inside of the auto shows the reservations are going to take off even more.
I heard a lot of that in Hudson last week and I get why the vehicle displays have been smaller events because it’s grass roots. Everyone goes to a car show to see cars so most already know. Several 1,000 going to a concert in upstate NY (and are affluent and have cash and the gotta be first attitude) don’t show up expecting to see Scouts so it is very grass roots and that’s also what gets people talking and telling a friend, then another…..
We are considering one to replace our '07 WK diesel. We need a "farm truck" to haul hay, compost, etc. We are just going into town and back and around our property. Slate would be perfect for that. But we can't do that until I get my Scout as neither the Slate nor my Model X Plaid can haul our boat. Which probably works out as by then we should know if Slate is going to make it.
My wife will not be happy with the attention. I have a tendency of driving rare/unusual cars that get a lot of attention when we're out, and I expect the Scout to be no different when it hits my driveway. Luckily for her, my car-guy tendencies trump my anti-social tendencies, so she doesn't have to talk to the people, but unluckily for her, she has to sit there while I do...
And they just fall further and further behind.
Good call. There are also a bunch of old guys around here that still drive around in their old S-10s. They'd probably be a decent market too.
Are we going to see more regional or national advertising, tv, print, social media ?
I wear my Scout shirts now and then and will start wearing my new Scout trucker hat this weekend
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Another article. I just want those shirts and patches that were at the festival this weekend.
I’m not sure where this thought goes. Since I just noticed this in the images in the article you linked, it’ll go here.
Scout’s concepts do not have air deflectors in front of the tires on the front or rear. If this design is carried through to production, this will allow fast-moving air to get up into the wheel wells and increase drag. Adding well-designed deflectors in front of the wheel wells would improve the coefficient of drag by another 10% or so. That won’t translate to a 10% improvement in range, but it could help quite a bit.
Large, skinny, light-weight tires that mostly fill the wheel well would end up helping the situation somewhat if there are no deflectors.
Is there a vehicle that has them so I can see what they look like? Thanks!
The Lightning has an air dam across the entire front. It’s not the most elegant or efficient way to accomplish this.
The Lucid Gravity has them; I think they also have a front vent to allow higher air to push through in such a way as to redirect any air that would otherwise make it into the wells. The Lucid Air mostly uses the front vent to push air that tries to get stuck in the well.
The Kia EV6 has very small ones and a front vent. They have larger ones in front of the rear tires.
I’m sure there are many others. Basically they look like rock deflectors but in front of the wheels instead of behind.
The 4Runner's air dam is comically large and hangs super low for an offroad vehicle, but it makes for a great example.
I was hoping it wasn’t that. That car was on my list and if I got that one that was going to be the first thing that was yanked off.
That’s an extreme example.
The Lucid Air has the best coefficient of drag in a production vehicle in the US. The deflection can be done much, much more subtly.
But the trick is that the Scouts will need to use some of the air impacting the front of the vehicle for thermal management.
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