What many don’t know is this spacious and dynamic space began life as a simple cardboard box with a cutout front door and a liftable hood. It’s sheer size, ample power supply, drainable floor and open and close system that opens with the touch of a button make it frunking awesome!” said Linda Zhang, F-150 Lightning Chief Program Engineer. “The F-150 Lightning pickup’s Mega Power Frunk is one of those features that reshape what vehicles can provide for customers. Having said that, the Lightning's designers are pretty happy with their truck's front package. Why they would do that when "frunk" lends itself so much better to puns is anyone's guess, but you do you, GM. Tesla models have had them for years and earlier this year General Motors took the odd marketing step of trying to trademark the term ETRUNK.
Gas-powered mid- and rear-engine vehicles have had them for some time.
Obviously, Ford isn't the first player to offer a frunk on its EVs. The Lightning's nearest competitors like the Chevy Silverado EV, the GMC Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and Tesla Cybertruck are all either moving toward production or are already there. It's easy to be the biggest when the gene pool is small. Which, while certainly growing, certainly puts a caveat to Ford's frunk size claims. The name stuck and now the F-150 Lightning frunk boasts 400 liters (14.1 cubic feet) of cargo space and maximum payload capacity of 400 pounds, making it the largest frunk in its class. Someone somewhere in the industry came up with the frunk portmanteau descriptor for the cargo space found at the front of many, if not all, EVs. Or, as the team dubbed the new feature, the Mega Power Frunk. Rather than rely on all of those fancy CAD programs at their fingertips, the design team for the all-electric 2022 F-150 Lightning turned to that shining beacon in designing the front trunk for the truck. Unless you're one heroic cardboard box in Ford corporate's copier paper room, inspiring greatness in those around you as a beacon of imagination. The next you're torn asunder and tossed into the fireplace. One day you're the thin brown line valiantly holding back an avalanche of old photo albums in the attic. Ford F150 Lightning EV Truck's Front Trunk: What the Frunk?īeing a cardboard box is an honorable profession but a thankless job too.
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