Scout Motors, the classic off-road brand from the sixties, has been reborn as an electric vehicle company and is building a new SUV and pickup truck. The pioneering Jeep rival was brought back to life by Volkswagen in 2022 after the German automaker acquired Scout in 2020 (when it merged its commercial trucking company Traton with Navistar ).

Today, 2 years after announcing plans to revive the long-forgotten Scout brand, Germany’s Volkswagen AG pulled the covers off the marque’s first two models,

American, all-electric SUV and pickup arrive in 2027 with bidirectional charging, rugged capabilities and Harvester configurations that can run partially on gas.