Scout held a nice community event in Blythewood three days this week. I attended the Saturday event, today. There was a 20-ish minute presentation, followed by casual question and answer mingling afterwards. Both the Terra and Traveler prototypes were on display. What follows is an attempt to share the experience, for those unable to attend. Note that I am not a photographer, nor a videographer, nor a comfortable mingle-r, but I thought the impressions and captured photons might be of interest.
Blythewood Community Event
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Awesome you had the opportunity to view in person, both look impression in images and even better in person. Thanks for sharing, it for what's it worth, your photo skills are better than you give yourself credit for.
Traveller (cont.)
Handheld smartphone recording of presentation
Random tidbits from speaking with folks
- Low voltage architecture will be 12V, not 48V
- Not certain where 12V battery will be located, but though the frunks are power-up, the frunk latches will be fully mechanical, so frunk should be fully accessible even when low-voltage battery is dead, which could make that an easily accessible spot, should the packaging work out.
- Compass is a fluid-filled floating magnetic compass
- not certain if the outer ring will have any adjustment to compensate for true north, but should be possible
- Design intent is to keep the molle panels affixed to the front seats, though there will likely need to be significant changes to the latching mechanisms in order to pass crash testing
- backup plan would be to relocate those to the bottom of the fold-up rear seats
- Molle panels affixed to the rear seats have a latching mechanism so that they are always fully captured, so should keep things firmly in place
- Expect to have at least two test mules (for each model), possibly up to three, during design stages stepping to the final production iteration
- Despite SC H.3777 being on ice for the current legislative session, SC government partners that were present said they had not heard that Scout has yet "given up" or indicated they do not plan to continue with developing the User Experience Center at the site. Note that this was coming from SC government partners, not Scout. However, those folks did intimate that no one expected the current bill to get very far, and seemed to be implying that it was a kind of trial balloon to see what changes legislators were seeking for the next revision to the legislation, likely for next year's session.
Impression of the People of Scout
Everyone was incredibly friendly, well-informed, and clearly passionate about their role in the company, and seeing these visions to fruition. Very thankful that they were kind enough to speak with me for such a long time, and to host this event!Oh, and one more juicy tidbit I forgot to include. When someone asked "what color did you pre-order" and an attendee responded that nothing like that is up yet, a Scout employee said something along the lines of: if you pre-ordered be on the lookout for a communication soon on that front that you should enjoy.
Thanks for the updates.
Now that you have also had the pleasure of seeing in person-you probably get a lot of the points we’ve tried to make since being g at the reveal. They are so much more impressive in person and it’s hard to explain that to people. You did a great job with pics and some of the discussions you heard. Glad you made the trek to see it as you likely have a much higher regard for the designs than you could’ve imagined before seeing it in person.
Overall-just an amazing vehicle(s)
Love this and so glad you got a chance to see the concepts in person. We will have the vehicles on display in other parts of the country. Stay tuned for more dates and locations.
Thanks for the great write up!
Jamie
Thanks for the great write up!
Jamie
That I can’t wait for that email!
Also yet again, beautifully crafted concept vehicles. I feel like I say this every time they are posted.
If there's an event similar to this near you, I highly recommend going if you can.
I also forgot to mention another tidbit I learned speaking with a nice lady from Scout's crisis management and security (i.e. protector of the prototypes): the slide out trays in the front are not laptop trays. They are in fact chicken nuggie trays, and she's hard at work lobbying the design team to incorporate a dipping sauce holder.
I also forgot to mention another tidbit I learned speaking with a nice lady from Scout's crisis management and security (i.e. protector of the prototypes): the slide out trays in the front are not laptop trays. They are in fact chicken nuggie trays, and she's hard at work lobbying the design team to incorporate a dipping sauce holder.
Just curious but did they ask you if they could copy and paste your post here:
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Traveler + Terra up-close pics & impressions at Blythewood community event
Great coverage of Scout's community event held this week in Blythewood, SC. Both the Traveler and Terra were there on display. All credit for the writeup @Czernobog 👍 Scout held a nice community event in Blythewood three days this week. I attended the Saturday event, today. There was a 20-ish...
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Nope. No contact of any kind, and I am not a member of that forum.Just curious but did they ask you if they could copy and paste your post here:
Traveler + Terra up-close pics & impressions at Blythewood community event
Great coverage of Scout's community event held this week in Blythewood, SC. Both the Traveler and Terra were there on display. All credit for the writeup @Czernobog 👍 Scout held a nice community event in Blythewood three days this week. I attended the Saturday event, today. There was a 20-ish...
Ive done some post on there, i normally quote the person who work it is which its normally articles and power phrases. I stopped reporting there probably a few weeks ago when i heard they are the most “reliable” source.Just curious but did they ask you if they could copy and paste your post here:
Traveler + Terra up-close pics & impressions at Blythewood community event
Great coverage of Scout's community event held this week in Blythewood, SC. Both the Traveler and Terra were there on display. All credit for the writeup @Czernobog 👍 Scout held a nice community event in Blythewood three days this week. I attended the Saturday event, today. There was a 20-ish...
They steal a lot of stuff from here and they are being called the most reliable source for ScoutMotors news.
So basically they are running a parallel forum and stealing content. What a waste
Thats exactly what it is.
I stopped contributing to that platform when they were called the most reliable source. I said thats because of me, and now they won’t be the most reliable source. Because i left. So know they are just stealing.
Good on you, Timmy! Stick it to the Scoot forum!
@Jamie@ScoutMotors are you cheating on us and posting the most up to date/reliable info on their forumJust curious but did they ask you if they could copy and paste your post here:
Traveler + Terra up-close pics & impressions at Blythewood community event
Great coverage of Scout's community event held this week in Blythewood, SC. Both the Traveler and Terra were there on display. All credit for the writeup @Czernobog 👍 Scout held a nice community event in Blythewood three days this week. I attended the Saturday event, today. There was a 20-ish...
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Thank you for the detailed posting. Makes me feel like I was there in the driver seat. Good that the Scouts were not near me in the DTC desert, because if they were I would be in trouble for seating in the seat and making EV engine/motor sounds....
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That’s BS for someone to just rip off your very informative post.
Although you said you aren’t a photographer or videographer I Love the photos you took! Look forward to seeing them in person at some point… hopefully at Electrify Expo
Thanks for the kind words.Although you said you aren’t a photographer or videographer I Love the photos you took! Look forward to seeing them in person at some point… hopefully at Electrify Expo
I did also hear that the prototypes' next stop is back to Michigan for filming in a television show, but didn't manage to ferret out any other future locations. Hopefully they'll be on a grand tour crisscrossing the country.