Volkswagen and Foxconn may start a partnership on the production of electric cars, and there are plans to revive the SUV brand called Scout, writes Automotive News. This was reported by the German publication Automobilwoche.

Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and has 800,000 employees. In recent days, the company has been in the center of attention of the world media because of the unrest at the Chinese megafactory.

Well, Foxconn has growing ambitions in the automotive industry, and has also unveiled concepts and is assembling cars for Lordstown Motors in the US at the Ohio plant that Lordstown bought from General Motors in 2019. Foxconn knows well that in the automotive industry, profit margins are good, especially if production becomes numerically important.

Sources say the bet would be to revive a brand called Scout, a name used between the 1960s and 1980s in the US by International Harvester, which produced off-road vehicles.

Volkswagen has owned this company since 2020 through a division of Navistar International. From May 2022, the VW group also has a company called Scout Motors.

Production of the electric Scouts is set to begin in 2026 in the U.S. and could reach no more than 250,000 vehicles per year, sources say.

Volkswagen is also negotiating with the Austrians from Magna, also on the subject of the Scout division.