Scout Motors Milestone - First Welded Traveler Body at Production Center

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Hi All,

Last week we reached a major milestone here at Scout Motors with the first welded Traveler body. Here is the note from Scott Keogh that went out to all reservation holders today:

“We've had many firsts on our way to delivering Scout® vehicles. We hired our first production associates. We received our first parts. We turned the lights on in our factory for the first time.

Today marks another one: the first time welding a vehicle body at our Production Center in Blythewood, South Carolina.

No, this isn't a vehicle that will end up in driveways, campsites, or trailheads. But it is helping us prove something just as important: how we'll build every Scout vehicle that follows.

Running these processes allows us to validate our engineering before customer production begins.

Every weld, every component, and every lesson learned helps us improve the way we build and gets us one step closer to delivering Scout vehicles in 2028.

There's still plenty of work ahead. But for the first time, our factory isn't just being built ... it's building.”


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@Jaime Do you have any idea of how many of these will be made up front? I imagine they will be test mules or are these purely QA / proof of concept / ability to weld a frame testing type of frames. Scott says "No, this isn't a vehicle that will end up in driveways,..." but do you know what they are for now?

Also, I like the typo in Scott's name in your post... (or is it, does he actually make you call him Scout?) :LOL:
 
@Jaime Do you have any idea of how many of these will be made up front? I imagine they will be test mules or are these purely QA / proof of concept / ability to weld a frame testing type of frames. Scott says "No, this isn't a vehicle that will end up in driveways,..." but do you know what they are for now?

Also, I like the typo in Scott's name in your post... (or is it, does he actually make you call him Scout?) :LOL:

We joked that if we got a certain number of reservations, Scott should change his name to Scout.

Not sure on the number of these that will be built over the next year or more. Yes, some could find service as test vehicles in the future. More development stories will be coming in the future.
 
I would fly out to see my Scout Traveler on the production line and have a meet/greet (w/ a southern BBQ) over the weekend. It would be nice to have some demo Terra/Travelers on a off road course, tips/tricks classes, meet other owners, thank the people that make the Scout, and we could drive broken-in demo models to get a feel for their capabilities down the road. I would be 100% fine having Scout ship my Traveler EREV back to NM.
 
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