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I have zero faith in Stellantis EVs. I know they have many in the family sold in Europe, but I just can't shake the thought of how many issues they have in ICE vehicles and how that would translate to EVs. Hope to be proven wrong because these OEMs need to make more EVs in general

Would be surprising if Scout added in a start button. Rivians don't have one. At least if they must include make it optional, I'd much rather not use one.

Based on the "One More Thing" part of the presentation, the battery capacity is smaller to make room for a gas tank. You'd target 100-150 miles "EV only", 350-400 gas generator. The sheer cost and weight of the batteries needed to make 350 EV miles, plus a gas tank and an ICE would make this...

PAAK will be an option if it’s not standard. I can’t see why Scout would waste resources on their own thing and not just pull directly from Rivian’s parts bin. It’s just that Rivian’s implementation hasn’t exactly been the best. I’ve been fairly lucky but I know others have struggled.

I think I’d pass on an electric tonneau this time around. Offer it as an option, but after waiting for 8 months on parts after my Rivian cover stopped working I’d rather just deal with something manual. I could have sworn I saw a compressor in one of the media event shots. But I could be...

Thankfully they went with something smaller. Looks pretty good. Hopefully they can do a bit better with the keyfob and PAAK reliability than what Rivian launched with.

Crossing my fingers there‘s one anywhere but Brooklyn, NY

They could split off and add Carplay, it's technically possible. But I'd imagine VW saw a quick win getting both EV architecture and software by signing one check.

It's tough to say without understanding the implementation of the range extender. It's always good to have the option, the example MrOzman mentioned could happen. Having some experience with Rivian I'm less concerned about having a software option at launch than I am understanding the specs and...

I’d expect more expensive if only because Scout now needs to tool to build two different variants on their assembly lines.

As a Rivian owner software looks pretty familiar. Good to see it’s starting with Pet mode.

Excited to see more on the engineering

They should work out a deal with VW service centers. That $5B is going to go pretty quick if they have to build out dozens of service hubs across the country, fill them with parts and staff. I understand the vehicles are supposed to be more serviceable, but mobile support can only handle so much.

There’s no one stitched together 360 view that you can drag and spin around like other cars. But there are more than enough camera views that show you around the vehicle and bed.

Would be surprised if this isn't the same on both and they just didn’t mention it.

No details obviously so just speculation but I’d think these things would do better than a Rivian due to the live axle and locker. But as these vehicles will be heavy as $hit compared to your standard ICE off roader I’d think that’s the bigger issue.

I was a bit surprised they didn’t mention anything on autonomous driving. Part of me wishes its because they‘re not going down the endless monetezation path. But that also assumes VW gave them $5B out of the kindness of their hearts. They want a return and monetization gets them that. The more...

Makes sense if you’re not into it because of the design. I’m actually looking to get out of my Rivian and was mulling over a Lightning. Not thrilled with the software on Ford’s side so have been hesistant. Hoping these Scout twins fit me a bit better.

Are there known glitches in Rivian’s software? I have a fairly early build and in over 2 years I haven’t encountered any issues with the UX besides poor design choices.

All comes down to Scout wanting to make “owning” software stack a revenue stream. With the Rivian deal I’m not even sure how it works, if the data goes back to Rivian or they share. Technically its absolutely possible, Lucid added Carplay, a vehicle at least 18 months away from full production...