Request: This Could Add 15% Winter Range to Scout EVs

[Roger 123]

But let's admit the majority of Scout buyers will not tow or go off roading so if your Scout who you marketing to the 20% or the 80 %

Go to this website and tell me who they are marketing this vehicle to.

https://www.scoutmotors.com

 

[colinnwn]

But let's admit the majority of Scout buyers will not tow or go off roading so if your Scout who you marketing to the 20% or the 80 %

Particularly for the market Scout is going for, I believe the way you feel is the 20%, and 60% hope to be in the other 20%. All of the market evidence points this way.

It would be pissing in the wind for Scout to try to convince the 60% are really in your 20%, rather than actually marketing to where the evidence points.

I don't disagree with most of what you say regarding what most people need. My only disagreement is that Scout can be successful launching soon as BEV only. Going BEV only is pointless and destructive to shareholder value probably for the next decade.

I totally agree with Roger and he said what I meant better.

 

[joewilk45]

You mean the share holders who own VW stock and are suing Scout for DTC sales conflict of interest. And disagreement is good for ingenuity. But here goes a commit from an old wiseman.
https://m.economictimes.com/magazin...gth-or-intelligence/articleshow/131470267.cms

 

[joewilk45]

IThose who don't own EV's need to take one for a ride don't commit on speculation commit on actual life experiences. It's no different when Henry Ford brought the Model T to life. There weren't any gas stations / Chargers and lately I haven't seen to many horses on the road. So that gives me hope for the future Giddy Up !!!

 

[joewilk45]

Go to this website and tell me who they are marketing this vehicle to.

https://www.scoutmotors.com

Same people Range Rover and Jeep GM and Ford . How many Wranglers go off roading, Rivians , Broncos Defenders point being Scout's sales no matter what platform will be same ratio 20% will go off road, that's what historical data says

 

[Roger 123]

Same people Range Rover and Jeep GM and Ford . How many Wranglers go off roading, Rivians , Broncos Defenders point being Scout's sales no matter what platform will be same ratio 20% will go off road, that's what historical data says

You're not getting the point, in America, people don't buy on what they need, they buy on the dream of doing "X" someday with the vehicle. And in this segment, "X" is multi-day trips out into the backcountry fishing, hunting, camping, and hiking in all the places where charges aren't located (yet).

95% of time the car will be within 20 miles of a fast charger, but people don't buy on the 95%, they buy on the 5%. And car manufacturers know that, that is why all the marketing shows these vehicles plowing through the backcountry like a galloping horse.

You can look at stats all day long on how people actually use their vehicle, but they don't buy what they need they buy the dream. I have a Bronco Badlands with a sway-bar disconnect, triple locked, 35" tires, 4.70 gears, underbody bash plates, steel bumpers, rock rails, the whole nine-yards. All to drive a few miles around town and take my granddaughter to school once in a while BUT I MAY go out to CO someday and navigate a bada** mountain pass. There's no chargers on the White Rim Trail and THAT's why I bought the car I did as just maybe someday I'll do that trail.