Terrible news for SC taxpayers. This means they, like other EV companies, are banking on a democratic President to wake the mandates and incentives back up...or never at all. MG

https://www.jalopnik.com/2143661/sco...y-2030-report/



In February 2024, when I went to South Carolina for the groundbreaking of Scout Motors' brand new factory, the Volkswagen-owned automaker said production of its upcoming truck and SUV would start in 2026. Eight months later, when the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup were unveiled, Scout said the production models were a bit delayed, set to come out in 2027 instead. In the year and a half since then,*Scout has shown the concept trucks in new colors and with some new accessories, but we haven't publicly seen any test mules or prototypes (though a handful of test rigs do apparently exist in real life), and the factory is still in the process of being built.

Two months ago, reporting from German publication, Der*Spiegel*said the Scouts had been delayed even further due to technical problems with the trucks' development, with production not set to start until summer 2028. CEO Scott Keogh somewhat confirmed that about a week later, saying that he expected customers to get their hands on*Scouts sometime in 2028. Now, a new report from AutoForecast Solutions, brought to our attention by Autoline, says Scout's delays are even worse than we thought. The*Traveler*SUV's start-of-production date has been pushed back to September 1, 2028, while the Terra pickup apparently won't enter production until March 1, 2030.*That is a long-ass time from now. In fact, that would mean a longer wait for Terra buyers than Tesla Cybertruck buyers endured, as that model was shown in concept form in November 2019 and went into production four years later.

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