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Funny how many times he said "premium" Every launch meeting with Rivian included them saying "premium" a bunch of times lol.

I don't need a notarized statement from Scout to know that EV trucks drop 40% of their range, minimum, when towing. Scout has already stated the range extender, is an extender, it can slow the depletion, it cannot charge faster than depletion. And that's unloaded. They have also stated the...

With or without the range extender, you're not going to tow anything over 3500 lbs or so more than 200 miles with an EV or Range Extended EV. If that's the most important thing to you in your vehicle purchase, no EV is good enough. If you're willing to make the stops every 2 hours to charge...

Without a dealer model, assuming that continues, I hopefully will be able to do so. However, options, "value added" operations in the production stream, add cost and profit. That incentivizes manufacturers and dealers to load everything up. Which is why I've never seen a Lightning XL at 40k...

I'm really just disappointed, I would have liked to have seen it in person.

The reason is straightforward enough. People are highly dishonest with themselves. In spite of decades of data about how little distance people cover per day, how often their pickup hauls anything, how often it tows anything... People insist they tow the USS Nimitz up the Eisenhower pass...

I'm saying what I said, the choice to go to CES instead of the auto shows, is concerning to me. It's an automobile, personally, don't really care about imaginary connectivity via Starlink or whatever. Would like to see it accessible around the country, at the auto shows, where people go to...

It's not a great feeling if they don't want to put their concepts out in front of the public or industry.

Anyone know if Scout will have a booth at the Detroit auto show this year?

By hand, 3D printed, hand fabricated, etc etc. Probably took them 6 months to get them ready for the little song and dance they did, and they didn't exactly turn people lose with them.

Spend tens of billions buying the government, you get all types of exemptions. They really don't even hide it much anymore.

I'm apparently all alone in the, give me the most basic truck you possibly can. I don't need carpet, leather, heated anything, or even power windows or locks. I need the most capable, basic, cheapest truck I can get. People beg for these things to be stuffed with unicorn leather and zebra...

I'd count on realistically getting 75% of stated range. I would not count on mystical super batteries coming along and getting plopped in in the meantime.

Hand built Alpha's, suppliers haven't been kicked off, tooling hasn't been purchased, nothing you've seen is production.

Tax avoidance, subsidy harvesting, there's money on the table out there, and it's not necessarily in selling products people want. This is why we don't truly have a capitalist society lol

Corporations, and the very rich, don't do everything for profit. It's often tax avoidance as well. Ah, damn, sorry, can't pay taxes on my profits, lost 1.5 billion on Scout.

I don't think any politician is going to do anything other than enrich the people and corporations who put them in power. And say whatever they think the people in front of them want to hear, knowing perfectly well it will never come to pass and they have no intention of trying. Then they...

In the industry, options, are called "value add" As a broad, general rule of thumb, everytime a part is touched, the price is doubled. So a blank door panel with a hole for a crank, say 1.00. Door panel with switch bezel, 2.00 install switch, 4.00 Etc etc. Per unit price goes up more...

Well, again, my EV truck would get it's power from the 800.00 generator I own. Because I'm not trying to use it to run my AC and party like it's 1999 when the lights go out lol.

Companies with billions in net profit having a few billion less in net profit, doesn't mean the sky is falling lol. VW will still very much be around in 50 years. As will Stellantis. Everything is absolutely existential crisis these days lol.