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I know I should not base a lot on simply looks, but it is hard not to. Perhaps if I gave a R1 a chance, I would see it is a wonderful vehicle - but I can not get past the looks.

I have serious doubts the Scout Harvester will be nearly that large. A lot depends on the target market - and for a startup, that should be a mass target market. Only a small fraction of the market tows, and even that fraction does not tow regularly or long distance. It is just not a great...

Do you really want something as complicated as a gas engine without full dealer support. I know no local mechanics that will touch my VW as it is.

Not sure if extension cables and high speed charging will work together all that well. IIRC, the Level 4 charging cables are using liquid cooling on the cables to keep the temps down with the current they are designed to handle. Solar kind of worries me. I am planning on doing solar as well...

Cost is going to going to depend on several factors. Copper can get expensive, if the run is a decent distance from your breaker box. Then there is if your box has room, or if it will need to be upgraded. Great example was some costs I read about the 2x Level 2 chargers that Ford tried for a...

The interior width from the pictures on the other forum kind of surprised me. Exterior width w/o mirrors is 6'8", so the interior width of 3'6" seems odd. Add to it, it has a center console width that is in line with full sized trucks and SUV's. 3' 6" is very close to the tailgate width of a...

Love the idea of the bench seat. Understand that it will probably have a fold down arm rest. But will there be any cup holders if the armrest is up? Dog wants a bench seat-but driver still wants cup holders...

EV's are really not ready for long distance towing. Towed my boat this weekend, F250 diesel drank almost a full tank. Honestly, I suspect most EV trucks would have taken 3 charges to do it. That said, could simplify it by just renting storage on the coast-then the EV would possibly make the...

I guess to me, if it is going to be shipped somewhere to a delivery center - it might as well be one closer to me rather than further... Hopefully SC will get it's act together before production starts. If not, would probably just take delivery instate rather than do a pilgrimage to nothing...

Scout Traveler SUV - 207.9 inch length (with rear mounted spare tire / carrier) - 190.9 inch length (without spare tire / carrier) - 91.6 inch width (with mirrors) - 79.9 inch width (without mirrors) - 120.4 inch wheelbase Bronco 4-Door - 189.4 inch length (with mounted spare tire) - 86.2 inch...

A 2 door Traveler will still be pretty big - kind of the size of of the old Ram Charger. Honestly, might be larger-trucks have gotten wider since then. The Traveler is not really Jeep or Bronco sized.

I don't really expect the Scout to be a refined Wrangler. Already have a Wrangler and it is plenty refined already for me. A lot of people probably want a simpler Wrangler though. Wranglers do tend to be a couple years behind on tech, and ours is going on 6 years old - so by the time the...

I can not think of many offroad oriented consumer vehicles that have articulating rear ends (Cybertruck might brag about off road cred, but...)-besides cost, there may be other considerations.

Always say my crystal ball is fuzzy. IF we end up in a world which has had considerable improvements in battery technology and price reduction - sure some companies will spring up that will do conversion. If you wanted a legacy Scout turned into and EV, I bet there are already companies that...

A lot has been said about the interview-including that all the numbers are still subject to change. Personally I think the 5k limit was due to the Harvester being designed for max range when not towing. But that is a compromise that probably can easily be adjusted (but then the real question...

It is easy to say I don't really want a connected vehicle. But in honesty, my Iphone does enough tracking of me anyway. I can respect wanting a dash cam though - my wife's car was massively keyed when it was in a nearly empty parking lot. I took some acquaintances to a movie once - and my...

A clean design I guess, but not what I would do personally. Front bumper will offer little protection against deer-it looks decorative to me. Hiding the winch looks clean-but I have never seen an actual offroad vehicle with a hidden winch-it is good to see the line. No receiver hitch. I...

Not sure how common it is, but some local RV parks have put in charging stations - simple way to meter it I guess.

Just a thought/fear. Various aspects effect loss of mileage while towing. RV's might not be the heaviest thing you can tow-but they tend to have terrible wind resistance. I have an Airstream. While I may tow occasionally, I find most of my tows for camping to be well under 100 miles-many...

I don't see a pure ice. Perhaps they will try to figure out the towing limit on the EREV. Sure, they might get some extra sales with an ICE, but that is a saturated market.