Patent filings excavated by Car and Driver reveal that Ford has laid claim to a style of front trunk — a.k.a. “frunk” — that can be accessed in two different ways: either by raising the lid, as with a ...

The future electric F-150’s front trunk can be ... The auxiliary battery module includes an integrated cooling system for cooling itself during operation of the electric vehicle including a ...

Frunks aren't new to the auto industry. Models with engines in the rear of the car, like Porsche's 911 and the defunct Chevrolet Corvair built in the 1960s, have long offered a front trunk in lieu ...

Like a lot of electric car startups, Rivian has been something of a mystery. With just 560 employees, the Plymouth, Michigan-based company bought a former Mitsubishi factory in Normal, Illinois ...

Frunks are not new to the auto industry. Models with engines in the rear of the car, like Porsche’s 911 and the defunct Chevrolet Corvair, have long offered a front trunk in lieu of a rear one.

EV designs from the early 2010s didn't seem to know what to do with the front of a car. Electric motors still need cooling. ... who led the development of the Lightning's front trunk.

News; Business; The front trunk is electric cars’ most divisive feature Oct. 31, 2022 Updated Thu., Nov. 3, 2022 at 1:02 p.m. Owners of EVS with front trunks seem compelled to close themselves ...

I didn't have a chance to take a close look at the model's cooling module (the stack of heat exchangers at the front of the car), but VW did say that there's only a single radiator at the nose.

Frunks aren’t new to the auto industry. Models with engines in the rear of the car, like Porsche’s 911 and the defunct Chevrolet Corvair, have long offered a front trunk in lieu of a rear one.

About one-third of the 30 or so EV models for sale in the U.S. have supersized the front truck feature in recognition of its novelty and utility. Another third of models skip the frunk altogether.

Nothing screams “future of transportation” like an 80-mile-per-hour sushi bar. At least that’s how Ford is marketing the refrigerator-sized front trunk that comes standard on two of its ...