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First fruits of VW/Rivian JV?
“VW’s electric adventure truck spinoff, Scout Motors, will reveal its first vehicle on October 24.
Two years ago, VW announced that it would resurrect the classic International Harvester Scout brand as an electric adventure vehicle, aiming for a similar niche as Rivian.
The original Scouts were built in the 60s and 70s, and the last Scout rolled off the line 44 years ago now. So it’s been quite the wait to see the brand come back.
Scout sent out an email today announcing that it’s hosting a big reveal on October 24 – a little later than the “this summer” target they previously had, but hey, what’s a couple weeksin the EV world?
Here’s the text of an email sent out by Scout about the reveal:
When VW originally announced the brand, we did get these design sketches showing the car and its very Rivian-like look:
Scout electric SUV and pickup designs (Source: VW)
And we’ve also gotten a silhouette teaser in the interim, where the vehicle shows a little bit more classic look, in particular the characteristic hood design:
And we’ve even gotten a teaser of the vehicle “in the wild,” though again in double silhouette form:
(Source: Scout Motors)
And finally, there’s the new minor teaser today available on Scout’s website, and which you can see as the featured photo at the top of this article. This shows a short animation of a compass embedded into the roof of the vehicle, suggesting that this will become a characteristic feature for Scout.
This new teaser jives with something mentioned in the email sent out today – that Scout will focus on “real tactile controls,” suggesting the brand may shy away from the all-digital cockpits that have become common on modern vehicles, particularly electric vehicles.
These touchscreen interfaces are easy to manufacture and allow for deep over the air updates of the system, a feature which consumers like – but are more distracting or confusing to use, which can turn off new owners. It will be interesting to see what balance Scout strikes – especially given VW’s recent investment in Rivian for software help, which is additionally interesting given that Scout seems targeted directly at the same niche Rivian is in.
So far, we don’t know much about the unveiling other than what we’ve said above, but we do know the vehicles probably aren’t coming for a while. Scout is building a factory in South Carolina, which just broke ground in February. So, not only does that factory need to be built, but it needs to be tooled and start building cars – which will all take a while.”
https://electrek.co/2024/09/03/vws-scout-brand-reveal-set-for-october-24/
“VW’s electric adventure truck spinoff, Scout Motors, will reveal its first vehicle on October 24.
Two years ago, VW announced that it would resurrect the classic International Harvester Scout brand as an electric adventure vehicle, aiming for a similar niche as Rivian.
The original Scouts were built in the 60s and 70s, and the last Scout rolled off the line 44 years ago now. So it’s been quite the wait to see the brand come back.
Scout sent out an email today announcing that it’s hosting a big reveal on October 24 – a little later than the “this summer” target they previously had, but hey, what’s a couple weeksin the EV world?
Here’s the text of an email sent out by Scout about the reveal:
While Scout does say that we won’t see a lot of teasers between now and the reveal, we do have a few teasers we’ve already seen.
When VW originally announced the brand, we did get these design sketches showing the car and its very Rivian-like look:
And we’ve also gotten a silhouette teaser in the interim, where the vehicle shows a little bit more classic look, in particular the characteristic hood design:
And we’ve even gotten a teaser of the vehicle “in the wild,” though again in double silhouette form:
And finally, there’s the new minor teaser today available on Scout’s website, and which you can see as the featured photo at the top of this article. This shows a short animation of a compass embedded into the roof of the vehicle, suggesting that this will become a characteristic feature for Scout.
This new teaser jives with something mentioned in the email sent out today – that Scout will focus on “real tactile controls,” suggesting the brand may shy away from the all-digital cockpits that have become common on modern vehicles, particularly electric vehicles.
These touchscreen interfaces are easy to manufacture and allow for deep over the air updates of the system, a feature which consumers like – but are more distracting or confusing to use, which can turn off new owners. It will be interesting to see what balance Scout strikes – especially given VW’s recent investment in Rivian for software help, which is additionally interesting given that Scout seems targeted directly at the same niche Rivian is in.
So far, we don’t know much about the unveiling other than what we’ve said above, but we do know the vehicles probably aren’t coming for a while. Scout is building a factory in South Carolina, which just broke ground in February. So, not only does that factory need to be built, but it needs to be tooled and start building cars – which will all take a while.”
https://electrek.co/2024/09/03/vws-scout-brand-reveal-set-for-october-24/
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