According to The Verge, the former Head of the American Volkswagen group encouraged Volkswagen to start a new electric truck path after seeing vintage surveillance that was fully restored.
Volkswagen acquired the Scout brand through the merger of 2020 Tronon commercial truck companies with Navistar, who originally the German car maker bought part in 2016.
In May, it was reported that the Volkswagen Group was willing to pump $ 1 billion into the new scout brand and set the goal to sell a quarter Million of Electric Off-Roaders with the name every year starting in 2026.
With the current prominent scout, the Volkswagen Management Board in Chatanooga, Tennessee, puts all North American responsibilities Volkswagen in the Head of South American Volkswagen at this time Pablo in SI. “Now is the time to concentrate more on the US market and US customers, and one part of the puzzles, surely, is scout,” CEO Volkswagen Group Herbert Diess told Axios in an interview.
The company said it would develop a “true Americana Americana Electric SUV and a pickup truck, according to the report, because it tried to restore the reputation affected by the” Dieselgate emission scandal.
Volkswagen hopes that scout will be the answer to double the 5 percent of the US market share of electric vehicles; The car maker crashed into obstacles this year after selling all EV-ID offers.4 and Audi e-Tron including 2022.
