Every Extended-Range EV Coming To America Soon Extended-range EVs promise all the benefits of electric cars without the range anxiety. These are all the new models coming in 2026, 2027 and beyond. InsideEVs · Feb 7
Scout Didn't Expect This: Nearly All Of Its 'Electric' Truck Buyers Want A Gas Engine Scout Motors now has over 150,000 reservations. Nearly all want the range-extending gas engine, Scout CEO Scott Keogh said. InsideEVs · Jan 30
Scout Motors EREVs Will 'Most Likely' Arrive Before Pure EVs, CEO Says The 'Harvester' model uses a four-cylinder gas engine as a range extender. It's far more popular than the pure EV version, Scout CEO Scott Keogh says. InsideEVs · Jan 27
Scout's Trucks Will Have Buttons: 'Mechanical Switches Give You a Connection' Scout Motors is doing all it can to position itself as the antithesis of modern cars. Its concepts have big screens and cutting-edge technology, but the brand is intentional with how you interact with all those features. The Terra and Traveler are packed with physical controls, which Scout CEO Scott Keogh said in a recent interview,… Motor1 · Oct 30, 2025
‘Everything's On A Screen’: Here’s Why Scout’s New Cars Will Have Good-Old Buttons Scout Motors’ CEO hates that “everything’s eight layers down.” Here’s how he plans to change that. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
Scout Motors Has 130,000 Reservations. Nearly All Want The Gas Engine However, the reborn automaker’s CEO is adamant that the future is still electric. InsideEVs · Oct 30, 2025
'This Is The Right Strategy': Why Scout's CEO Doesn't Need Car Dealers The Scout Terra truck made an unexpected appearance at Europe's largest auto show, and the brand's CEO said he's not worried about car dealers. InsideEVs · Sep 11, 2025
‘It’s Naive' To Anchor EV Plans On Tax Credits: Scout Motors CEO The American automaker backed by the Volkswagen Group has a few aces up its sleeve to help it tackle changing policies. InsideEVs · Jun 18, 2025
The Surveillance State Will Kill the Car Enthusiast Cars represent freedom. Automakers have preached and marketed that philosophy for more than a century, ensuring the automobile became indispensable to the American identity. However, over the last several years, these same companies have begun to undermine that gospel. They are pursuing new revenue streams and maximizing shareholder value in… Motor1 · May 12, 2025
Scout's EVs And 'Harvester' EREV Will Use Two Different Battery Types Automakers in the U.S. are on track to launch a flood of electric and electrified cars over the next few years. Some of them will be high-tech software-defined vehicles. Others will be retro-modern EVs designed to reflect both the past and the future. Scout Motors belongs to the latter category. InsideEVs · Feb 24, 2025
Scout Range Extender Will Be A Non-Turbo Four-Cylinder, Offer 500-Mile Range The revival of the Scout Motors brand under Volkswagen is one of the most exciting developments on the U.S. electric vehicle scene, but we still don’t know a whole lot about its upcoming vehicles. We’ve seen what they will look like, but very little in the way of technical information… InsideEVs · Feb 15, 2025
Nobody Is Winning The Electric Pickup Truck War. Yet. It’s the auto industry’s weirdest market. There are six EV trucks on sale in the U.S., made by more brands than the blockbuster half-ton gas truck market. Yet no one is selling big-truck volumes. It is a more expensive version of what is typically an automaker’s most profitable vehicle. Yet… InsideEVs · Jan 23, 2025
General Motors Sounds The Alarm On Trump's Tariffs To our American readers: Welcome to a new week. You officially have a new president, and he's promised a lot of change over the next four years. Many of his policies target the U.S. auto industry, which is now sweating over the sheer uncertainty that President Donald Trump's plan for tariffs… InsideEVs · Jan 21, 2025
Just So Everyone's Clear: Scout And Rivian Are Not The Same What an age of miracles we find ourselves in. The internet is the greatest tool for disseminating information that humanity has ever created, but it also allows anybody to just instantly broadcast whatever is on their mind at any given moment, regardless of how true it is or not. That does… InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2024
InsideEVs · Oct 25, 2024 Scout Motors' EV Gas Range Extender May Give It A Big Edge At Scout Motors' big debut last night, the new designed-and-built-in-America subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group showed off how it hopes to deliver on some big promises. The Scout Terra and Scout Traveler are big, rugged, retro-inspired electric vehicles packed with off-road features, physical buttons and as much vintage charm as…
InsideEVs · Feb 20, 2024 Scout Motors Aims To Help Volkswagen Do What It's Never Done: Conquer America The Volkswagen Group's newest brand is a homegrown effort that runs on batteries and has big plans for trucks, SUVs and more.
InsideEVs · Feb 16, 2024 Scout Motors EV Could Be More Expensive Than We Thought, No Hybrid: CEO It may be more than the $40,000 price tag that's been tossed around, but the Volkswagen Group has big plans for Scout Motors.
InsideEVs · Dec 8, 2023 VW's Scout Motors Confirms Magna As 'Engineering Partner' For Off-Road EVs CEO Scott Keogh said Magna helped get the electric SUV/pickup project off the ground but "Scout engineers are in the lead" now.
Motor1 · Dec 8, 2023 Scout Motors Electric Pickup And SUV Will Be Developed With Magna Steyr Plus, VW to cut administrative staff costs by a fifth.
Motor1 · Mar 30, 2023 Scout Electric SUV: Everything We Know The Ford Bronco and Jeep Wrangler will have a new sparring partner with the all-electric Scout SUV.
InsideEVs · Feb 9, 2023 Electric Car Battery Investments Skyrocketed In 2022 EVs currently only represent about 6% of new vehicle sales in the US, but a huge shift toward battery projects suggests that the figure could soar much higher.
WEKU · Dec 30, 2022 2022 was a big year for EV battery plants in the U.S. How big? $73 billion big As the auto industry goes electric, there have been so many massive battery projects announced that it can be hard to keep track of them all. So we added them up for you.
InsideEVs · Jul 23, 2022 Volkswagen Shares More About Scout Off-Road Brand Revival The German giant obtained the rights to the name and now it plans to launch a Rivian-rivaling pickup and SUV.
InsideEVs · Jul 20, 2022 Volkswagen Group Names North America Boss As CEO Of Scout EV Brand Effective September 1, Scott Keogh will become president and CEO of Scout, with Pablo Di Si to replace him at the helm of Volkswagen Group of America.
Motor1 · Jul 19, 2022 VW Names Scott Keogh As CEO Of Scout, Shuffles Leadership In America Keogh will focus solely on building the Scout brand.