When you love what you do it hardly feels like worm. Scout Motors has an awesome opportunity not only to produce a great lineup but establish an amazing culture in its workforce.LOL. It's all good. Happy Easter to you and yours.
When you love what you do it hardly feels like worm. Scout Motors has an awesome opportunity not only to produce a great lineup but establish an amazing culture in its workforce.LOL. It's all good. Happy Easter to you and yours.
Could see this being a subscription based idea. You pull up to a charging facility on the highway and switch out with a fully charged one to keep going. Would be a bit of a pain unhooking/hooking up the trailer, but it could help with long trips with a camper.GM patents tow-assist device to increase towing capacity — The ClassicCars.com Journal
Automakers are always looking to one-up each other by increasing the towing capacity of their pickup trucks, which has led General Motors to contemplate a wild towing solution.apple.news
I love coming up with code names!PPE is Audi/Porsche speak for Premium Platform Electric and is another EV component platform that is more luxury-oriented. It is essentially another skateboard platform but has a bit more flexibility for heavier luxury vehicles, plus numerous improvements over the current J1 and MEB EV platforms. Different software as well.
View attachment 840
Scout will be using an all-new body on ladder frame EV chassis. There could be some component sharing (electric motors for example) between the various platforms as that just makes sense from economies of scale perspective. We are working on a code name for the new Scout platform...
So Scout Motors, what are the parameters for qualifying? Seems like a good goal to shoot for to help with sales.
TikTok - Make Your Day
www.tiktok.com
......and we will be your guinea pigs for those six months. Putting them through the paces and reporting back directly to Scout Motors, not news media outlets .Scout…let’s try to avoid recalls. Test it longer if necessary. We’ve been waiting 42 years already. What’s 6 extra months!
Tesla Rival Volkswagen Has More Bad News on Its Electric Vehicles — TheStreet
Volkswagen has a big problem with its ID.4 electric vehicle that it needs to solve.apple.news
I’m sure @OleScout would be happy to represent the mid-Atlantic region with me......and we will be your guinea pigs for those six months. Putting them through the paces and reporting back directly to Scout Motors, not news media outlets .
Please don't forget about Canada!!We will be doing our best to take our first concepts/intro models out on the road to tour around the country. Chris and I are also of the mindset that once the vehicles are introduced we do our best to build as many colors and trims (pre-production) that we can so we can get photos right away of all the different combinations and hopefully get them into circulation for both testing and so people can see them in person.
Love HERITAGE meets INGENUITY. What a simple way to sum up the new Scout Motors ventureSome comments made by Scout CEO Scott Keogh in connection with the President’s Forum at Hobart and William Smith colleges.
“A lot of things were promised with digitization, with social media — this great connection and interaction — but we actually find out it’s led to more fear, isolation, paranoia,” he noted. “We think there is a possibility for an authentic, really physical connection. We feel we can make a car that can do it. Yes, it’s got a little bit of nostalgia to it but of course we are bringing it into the future and modernizing it.”
Keogh ’91 Navigates the World’s Electrified Streets
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh ’91 talks EVs, marketing philosophy and seizing opportunity at the President’s Forum Series.www.hws.edu
Love HERITAGE meets INGENUITY. What a simple way to sum up the new Scout Motors venture
Too bad it's vapourware. That was announced in 2017 and has yet to see the light of day. I wouldn't expect a boxy vehicle like the Scout to get anywhere near that range. Half that would likely be reasonable.
I saw this article too and was dumb founded that they would risk it. The whole notion of subscription based “services” in vehicles is insulting. That BMW is thinking of heated seats as subscription is ridiculous.CarPlay news
GM have announced plans to phase out Apple CarPlay support. Why? They have a deal with Goggle, believe they can make a vast sum of money from subscriptions and want to monetize privacy intrusive data gathering techniques that are prevented by iPhone.
They are working on a new in-car entertainment system that will only make select apps available to users and do so in a way the GM can monetize. Apparently, the problem with CarPlay is that is enables users to run whatever apps they want and use services they already use in other places.
Reuters reports:
”GM Chief Executive Barra is aiming for $20 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030.”
GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.www.reuters.com
This is nuts! For context, $20 billion is about the amount of money Apple made from all the apps on their App Store in 2022, with 2 billion active devices, hundreds of thousands of apps and sales in 175 countries.
Let’s do some back-of-the-envelope math. GM sells 6 million vehicles a year. They only plan to put their new system in new EVs which are currently 1.7% of their sales. But let’s say they expand this and put their new system in all new vehicles, including gas and hybrid, starting today. That would put the system in about 40 million vehicles by mid 2030. For GM to make $20 billion in in-car subscription revenue from that many vehicles they would need to take an average of about $500 a year in subscriptions per vehicle!
See the reaction of Ford CEO Jim Farley in a video interview with Joanna Stern at the WSJ
Ford CEO on Apple, Google and Elon Musk
Jim Farley spoke at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival about competition and technology within the EV market.www.wsj.com
Meanwhile… Porsche have just added a new Apple integration which supports EV Routing directly in the Apple Maps app. I would love to see this integration in the Scout.
Apple Maps EV routing expands to Porsche Taycan - 9to5Mac
Porsche is signing on to be the second EV maker to officially adopt support for EV routing in Apple Maps....9to5mac.com
People love their phones and they love CarPlay and Android Auto. Nobody wants to pay subscriptions for things their phone already does. One example of this is the Car Crash detection feature in new iPhones. A potentially life saving feature like this should not be a subscription, it should just work for everyone. People love that they are able to take their phone from place to place and vehicle to vehicle and all their personal stuff moves with them. They also love that CarPlay is fast and responsive and gets updated frequently so that their in-car experience improves over time with both software and hardware updates. Any programmer that wants to make an app for use in the car can do so via CarPlay. Some of these apps are very small businesses run by one person. GM’s approach will apparently only allow for deals with the giant companies who can pay for exclusivity. The entire venture is founded on Google paying for exclusivity - to shut out Apple.
This isn’t going to go well for GM because CarPlay is a huge factor in a car buying decision. About 80% of new car buyers have iPhones. Interestingly, Warren Buffet recently said, [if an iPhone user had] to give up a second car or give up their iPhone, they'd give up their second car” and on another recent occasion he said “if an iPhone owner was offered $10,000 in exchange for their iPhone and never to buy another, they're "not going to take it”.
Warren Buffett: iPhone owners would give up second car first
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett believes Apple offers a highly desirable product in the iPhone, one that consumers would give up a second car to keep.appleinsider.com
GM are underestimating how much people love their iPhone.
Yeah, the move away from CarPlay boggles me. It just comes across as greedy when you take away a feature that customers love.CarPlay news
GM have announced plans to phase out Apple CarPlay support. Why? They have a deal with Goggle, believe they can make a vast sum of money from subscriptions and want to monetize privacy intrusive data gathering techniques that are prevented by iPhone.
They are working on a new in-car entertainment system that will only make select apps available to users and do so in a way the GM can monetize. Apparently, the problem with CarPlay is that is enables users to run whatever apps they want and use services they already use in other places.
Reuters reports:
”GM Chief Executive Barra is aiming for $20 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030.”
GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.www.reuters.com
This is nuts! For context, $20 billion is about the amount of money Apple made from all the apps on their App Store in 2022, with 2 billion active devices, hundreds of thousands of apps and sales in 175 countries.
Let’s do some back-of-the-envelope math. GM sells 6 million vehicles a year. They only plan to put their new system in new EVs which are currently 1.7% of their sales. But let’s say they expand this and put their new system in all new vehicles, including gas and hybrid, starting today. That would put the system in about 40 million vehicles by mid 2030. For GM to make $20 billion in in-car subscription revenue from that many vehicles they would need to take an average of about $500 a year in subscriptions per vehicle!
See the reaction of Ford CEO Jim Farley in a video interview with Joanna Stern at the WSJ
Ford CEO on Apple, Google and Elon Musk
Jim Farley spoke at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival about competition and technology within the EV market.www.wsj.com
Meanwhile… Porsche have just added a new Apple integration which supports EV Routing directly in the Apple Maps app. I would love to see this integration in the Scout.
Apple Maps EV routing expands to Porsche Taycan - 9to5Mac
Porsche is signing on to be the second EV maker to officially adopt support for EV routing in Apple Maps....9to5mac.com
People love their phones and they love CarPlay and Android Auto. Nobody wants to pay subscriptions for things their phone already does. One example of this is the Car Crash detection feature in new iPhones. A potentially life saving feature like this should not be a subscription, it should just work for everyone. People love that they are able to take their phone from place to place and vehicle to vehicle and all their personal stuff moves with them. They also love that CarPlay is fast and responsive and gets updated frequently so that their in-car experience improves over time with both software and hardware updates. Any programmer that wants to make an app for use in the car can do so via CarPlay. Some of these apps are very small businesses run by one person. GM’s approach will apparently only allow for deals with the giant companies who can pay for exclusivity. The entire venture is founded on Google paying for exclusivity - to shut out Apple.
This isn’t going to go well for GM because CarPlay is a huge factor in a car buying decision. About 80% of new car buyers have iPhones. Interestingly, Warren Buffet recently said, [if an iPhone user had] to give up a second car or give up their iPhone, they'd give up their second car” and on another recent occasion he said “if an iPhone owner was offered $10,000 in exchange for their iPhone and never to buy another, they're "not going to take it”.
Warren Buffett: iPhone owners would give up second car first
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett believes Apple offers a highly desirable product in the iPhone, one that consumers would give up a second car to keep.appleinsider.com
GM are underestimating how much people love their iPhone.
I agree this seems a closer competitor to Scout than the R1S. I'm a fan of the design. I wouldn't hate to be seen driving this around. Very interested in specs when they become available (esp. range and fast charging rate). The R2 will also be a significant competitor to watch for—perhaps we'll get our first glimpse of that next year.This is a few weeks old, but I was looking closer at the pictures today. I also read the comments section. I know trolls will be trolls but not very good for Jeep. I am sure Scout is paying close attention as I think the Recon will be a closer competitor than Rivian R1S. Certainly if the price point comes in where as our thinks it will. Anyway, what do all of you think about the Recon???
Jeep shows off its Recon Moab 4xe electric vehicle concept to dealers [Images] — Electrek
Jeep is preparing to launch several new fully electric vehicles in the US within the next few years, including the Recon 4xe and Wagoneer S. The EV concepts were recently shown at a dealer’s conference for the first time in person. Check out the images below.apple.news