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Search is your friend, we’ve beat this topic to death several times, I’m not going around again.
I was asking what your thoughts on the topic are. I was truly curious. Thats ok I found them

"I have to disagree on the start/stop/on/off button, I want to tell the vehicle when to turn on and off, not the vehicle telling me. There always end up being exceptions. I’ve heard numerous examples where people have to bend over backwards to get the car to do what they want, because the designer didn’t think about their case, eg ac and lights automatically turn off when driver exits, even if there are other people in the car. End up having to learn magic hacks like “press brake pedal 3 times before exiting vehicle”. Just give me button and I’ll decide for myself thank-you-very-much."
 
The reason I like it is when you are a two vehicle family. We will have a EV and an ICE, at least until my wife decides on a new car eventually then who knows what she’ll choose. Anyway-as a new EV driver I like that both vehicles will have a start button to tell the vehicle and driver the car is on. At some point I worry I get in her car, come home, pull the parking brake on and get out forgetting to turn hers off. Sounds silly but with the ICE being active cylinder management, if the engine shuts “off” because of deactivation I could be out of vehicle and 4-5 steps toward the house before I realize I forgot to turn the car off. I just think a universal start button allows all drivers be it EV or ICE to know the car is “Off”
I'm glad we're still talking about this. I am starting to search for a car for my son and recently test drove an Equinox EV. GM has gotten rid of the start/stop button (BMW has also removed it starting this year) but there is an always-visible button on the left side of the touchscreen to turn the vehicle off. I think this solves the problem without having a dedicated button on the steering wheel.

This area also has quick-access buttons for one pedal driving and headlights (you may be able to add other things there - I know you can add things to the top bar of the screen too). The Equinox also has a regen paddle and while I will never use it in my Scout (I will set OPD to max and never change it), it didn't offend me.

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I can report that OPD in the Equinox works perfectly. Even the FWD model had strong regen all the way to a stop and will then engage the friction brakes to hold. They also had a good mix of physical buttons and touchscreen. I think Scout's buttons/UI are nicer but it's a much more expensive vehicle than the Equinox.
 
I'm glad we're still talking about this. I am starting to search for a car for my son and recently test drove an Equinox EV. GM has gotten rid of the start/stop button (BMW has also removed it starting this year) but there is an always-visible button on the left side of the touchscreen to turn the vehicle off. I think this solves the problem without having a dedicated button on the steering wheel.

This area also has quick-access buttons for one pedal driving and headlights (you may be able to add other things there - I know you can add things to the top bar of the screen too). The Equinox also has a regen paddle and while I will never use it in my Scout (I will set OPD to max and never change it), it didn't offend me.

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I can report that OPD in the Equinox works perfectly. Even the FWD model had strong regen all the way to a stop and will then engage the friction brakes to hold. They also had a good mix of physical buttons and touchscreen. I think Scout's buttons/UI are nicer but it's a much more expensive vehicle than the Equinox.
Interesting. Let us know what you end up buying.
 
Not sure everyone can open but what a way to schmooze the NC government before announcing the SM headquarters in Charlotte. Pretty cool

 
Not sure everyone can open but what a way to schmooze the NC government before announcing the SM headquarters in Charlotte. Pretty cool

Makes me think when you do factory delivery they should shuttle you around property in an old Scout first (for those who never had one) and also (to remind those of us who did-how much better the new Scouts will be). Would be a great part of the overall experience.
 
I find utter joy in reading this wind bag’s rants in his ridiculous site. The one comment after summed it up best-exec’s want a better place to live and educate their kids. This guy sure does love to hate on Scout, VW and McMasters-laugh every time one of his articles post. 🤣

 
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I find utter joy in reading this wind bag’s rants in his ridiculous site. The one comment after summed it up best-exec’s want a better place to live and educate their kids. This guy sure does love to hate on Scout, VE and McMasters-laugh every time one of his articles post. 🤣

I saw one a few months ago of him saying that Scout is just another start up that will fail.
 
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Makes me think when you do factory delivery they should shuttle you around property in an old Scout first (for those who never had one) and also (to remind those of us who did-how much better the new Scouts will be). Would be a great part of the overall experience.
This would be awesome, if I was of retirement age, that would be an ideal job!
 
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A pretty interesting attempt at beating the EV Cannonball Run record. Almost all Cannonball Run records of all types are done in heavily modified vehicles. The EV record is with an unmodified EV.

This team took two batteries from crash-tested Rivians, hacked them to fit into the bed of a Rivian R1T, designed hacked-together charging, communications, and cooling systems, and attempted to run the Cannonball Run with a >600 mile range R1T. Unfortunately they were stymied by various issues, mostly to do with the weather and lack of information about the auxiliary battery pack.

 
A pretty interesting attempt at beating the EV Cannonball Run record. Almost all Cannonball Run records of all types are done in heavily modified vehicles. The EV record is with an unmodified EV.

This team took two batteries from crash-tested Rivians, hacked them to fit into the bed of a Rivian R1T, designed hacked-together charging, communications, and cooling systems, and attempted to run the Cannonball Run with a >600 mile range R1T. Unfortunately they were stymied by various issues, mostly to do with the weather and lack of information about the auxiliary battery pack.

Super cool. They need to establish a legit EV version too