It was almost certainly for manufacturing/cost reasons.

Not having it be hydraulic probably saves $2k per unit.

I don’t think VW ever called it a frunk. I would believe you if you insist they did it can provide any evidence. Tesla want the first to put storage up there, but they did coin “frunk”.

Tesla was the first to say it and they didn’t trademark it. It works so everyone else adopted the term.

Ford figured out how to do it for the Lightning.

That’s basically what I use mine for. I work in environmental engineering and am very often on construction sites. So I use it to store my PPE bag.

I have a MMachE. Honestly the Frunk is not as useful as I imagined it would be (at least Ford’s implementation of the Frunk." You have to open it just like you would the hood of your ICE car, which is fine for an ICE car hood, but not very convenient for storage access. As a result, I really don’t use it that much.

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.