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Solid state is going to take a lot longer to hit the US than that. I wouldn’t hold out hope for Scout coming out with anything like this in ‘27. Maybe ‘30 or’32 if we’re lucky. Meanwhile, Chinese sold state cars will be all over the world.

Have owned an EV for a year and can’t ever see going back to ICE. EREV sounded interesting at first, but when you really break down how will work towing on a long trip, and look at the reduced tow rating to 5,000 lbs, it doesn’t really do much for me. Also decided we’re going to sell our...

I’d much rather have that than haul around two motor systems with all the headaches of maintaining an ICE engine just to save a few minutes charging on the few long trips we take. The EREV is 100% a complete waste for 95% of daily trips. Having had a BEV for a year now (ID.4 that we love) I...

My current mild hybrid 6 Defender can tow 8,000 lbs. and can easily get 200 miles range doing so. My old Touareg diesel Touareg could also tow 8,000 lbs and got 20 mpg while doing so.

Vermont sends you a free level 2 charger when you register an EV.

Stellantis patented a new 2 Spd EV transmission for off-road, but so far I think the only EV's with a 2 Spd transmission are the Taycan and Audi etron GT, with Lucid, Mercedes, and a few others planning to add in some new models. Sounds like it would jack up the price considerably, so doubtful...

Good luck with that. The one thing you can count on with tariffs is that all prices, even for domestics, will be higher than without the tariffs. This has been proven out with every tariff over time. We will all pay more for all cars when everything kicks in and the Scout will only cost in...

The reality is that the most fierce foreign competitors are still going to be tariffed to the hilt, so US producers like Scout know that they will be protected and have some breathing room to grow. Of course protected industries often succumb to a protectionist mindset and end up not being able...

That’s why you should only lease the harvester. Generators are a stop gap technology; only nobody knows exactly how long the gap will be. The rest of the world may be enjoying 1,000 mile and ten minute charging EV’s in five years while we could be stuck with outdated US made tech, but no...

Lot of wishful thinking in range in this thread. If the battery in the harvester is 150 miles, and the harvester will kick in at 30% or more when towing, and range gets cut by 50% when towing, you’re looking at around 50 miles before the harvester has to turn on. Then if the gas range is 350...

Most Rivians towing that kind of trailer report a hit of around 50% range. Even if batteries could handle 0-100% and you have the patience for the last 20%, nobody with an EV actually drives to 0%. Even if you’re that brave, the chance of chargers being placed exactly where you need them is...

Can’t imagine owning one of these behemoths in a city unless you have a safe garage—with plenty of clearance, and don’t mind squeezing around tight spaces. I know people will drive these around cities with plans to escape on the weekends, but what a terrible vehicle for city driving.

Nobody will ever trust us now though, so it’ll be very tough to get back to the type of rules based trading agreements that have been built up over the last 75 years. Trump signed a number of trade agreements in his first term and just ripped them up. No country is going to trust him on any...

They have, or at least had, plans to open direct to consumer sales stores in Canada. That will definitely be in jeopardy if this all continues.

Doesn’t even matter if there are foreign parts. Domestic producers always raise prices when they are protected by tariffs simply because they can. And Scout will lose export markets because of retaliatory tariffs so they’ll have to raise prices because of decreased volume. And we’ll end up...

Until you have to shut everything down to go out and get some groceries. I would rather have batteries or a home generator.

If anything the harvester is going to cost more. No way it’s going to be cheaper than the BEV.

Exactly. Bio fuels have been completely discredited as a solution mainly because of land use. We’d decimate the planet if we went that way. There are certain crops such as camelina that are more interesting as they can grow on scrap land and might not displace food crops or lead to...

In an emergency I wouldn’t need to fill up the EV. Would just need enough to get by. I’ll have two or maybe three Franklin wall batteries plus a fairly large ground installed panel setup so it should be no problem either using excess solar or some battery to keep the EV topped up or add 20% or...

All I know is when the sh&t really hits the fan and there are mile long lines at the gas station, I can fill up a BEV from my solar panels, but I can’t make gas myself (although my wife would beg to differ). For me, a BEV is about resiliency in times of disaster or economic strife, both of...