Please put extender in back and give biggest frunk possible!

[Globetrotter415]

Hello, love the look of the traveler and features especially pet mode, thank you! Please give us the biggest frunk you can and put the extender in the back. A functional frunk should be able to stow 2 carry ons and 2 backpacks at a minimum for a road trip getaway. I'd rather lose unsecure space in the back then secure space in the front. It's an epidemic in California people break windows and steel what's out in the open. A large frunk negates this.

 

[Logan]

I actually really, really like the idea of a frunk.

I think it's obviously a game changer in the truck, as trucks otherwise are usually quite lacking in the useable storage space for everyday items department. For instance, if you are picking up groceries, and the cab is mostly full of people? Thats usually a pretty rough situation for a truck. But the frunk would help immensely with that.

I'm actually thrilled to think about having one like shown in the SUV as well. I'm an avid mountain biker, and like most mountain bikers, the bike is on the vehicle with a bike rack out back. Which means that the main storage area of the vehicle, isn't usually easily accessible. Which means you end up tossing all your gear in the back seat, or passenger seat, and trying not to get all the mud/whatever all over the seats/doors/etc.

The frunk will let me have a place to sit to change out of my dirty gear, and keep it out of the main passenger compartment. Keeps the inside less "gym bag" and also cleaner. Thats a win/win in my book.

 

[Scoutsie]

Yeesh, f California.

The range extender is in the back. There are no posted dimensions for the frunk, so my guess is that this just straight-up isn’t close to finalized.

• https://scoutmotors.community.forum/threads/move-harvester-generator-to-frunk.1173/
• https://scoutmotors.community.forum/threads/easily-removable-generator-range-extender.1168/
• https://scoutmotors.community.forum/threads/gas-powered-range-extender.904/page-2#post-10682
• https://scoutmotors.community.forum/threads/scout-dimensions-updated-on-our-website.1135/

 

[chucchinchilla]

Yeesh, f California.

Did you see how full of stuff that car is? I've lived all over the country and in each city, including Boston, parking a Jetta full of stuff on the streets = stuff getting stolen. While it's a big problem in San Francisco (honestly that guy was an idiot to park a loaded car on the street especially when he has a perfectly good trunk), it's by no means unique to California.

 

[Scoutsie]

Did you see how full of stuff that car is? I've lived all over the country and in each city, including Boston, parking a Jetta full of stuff on the streets = stuff getting stolen. While it's a big problem in San Francisco (honestly that guy was an idiot to park a loaded car on the street especially when he has a perfectly good trunk), it's by no means unique to California.

That “f California” was meant more tongue-in-cheek and to show sympathy for the OP rather than a serious indictment of California. I have no beef with California. Like any place, it probably depends on chance. My car is always packed full of junk and nobody has ever bothered it (what are you going to find in a boring-ass Prius? There’s a dent in the bumper and it’s parked in a handicapped space). The worst anyone has ever done is throw a firecracker at it—no damage. Someone put a traffic cone on the hood. Other cars on my street have had their windows smashed, but that was years ago. No, I agree, it’s not unique. My apologies for unfairly picking on California. I should have chosen my words more carefully.

 

[Chaparral]

Crime varies widely between CA cities. Some cities in CA, including the one I live in, are actually among the lowest crime cities in the nation.

Still, I'm glad the Scout's will have a good sized frunk because it is always safer to have valuables well hidden. During the reveal, Scott made a point of saying that the Harvester still has the same frunk as the pure EV truck.

 

[J Alynn]

Crime happens everywhere. My theory is if you leave it in plain sight, locked or not it’s fair game to criminals.
25 years ago someone smashed my side window to steal a coat (in broad daylight). Ironically I had like $2,000 worth of computer equipment in trunk. That was an incident of someone desperate for warmth as it wasn’t a designer coat by any means.
I don’t leave anything in my car having had that happen. Same thing when people leave cars unlocked and teenagers go on crime sprees. Nothing to see-nothing to steal

 

[Logan]

I also try not to leave anything visible.

Or if I do, I try to make it not appealing.

When I go mountain biking, I have a big old gear bag/duffle bag thing (think hockey bag, but smaller. Big enough to fit a full face helmet, shoes, pads, etc).

I leave it in the front passenger seat usually, and open while I'm riding. So people can see a mostly empty bag, with my old muddy socks, gloves, mud covered shorts, chamois (padded shorts for biking)/whatever else I'm not wearing at the time while I'm out. They don't have to wonder "what is in that big bag" and then think about stealing it, and instead can think to themselves "WOW, that looks gross", and then move along .

 

[Scoutsie]

I also try not to leave anything visible.

Or if I do, I try to make it not appealing.

When I go mountain biking, I have a big old gear bag/duffle bag thing (think hockey bag, but smaller. Big enough to fit a full face helmet, shoes, pads, etc).

I leave it in the front passenger seat usually, and open while I'm riding. So people can see a mostly empty bag, with my old muddy socks, gloves, mud covered shorts, chamois (padded shorts for biking)/whatever else I'm not wearing at the time while I'm out. They don't have to wonder "what is in that big bag" and then think about stealing it, and instead can think to themselves "WOW, that looks gross", and then move along .

That’s pretty much what I do: leave empty reusable shopping bags in the backseat. The most valuable thing is my handicapped parking placard, probably. Short of running away with my actual car, which is also a bit banged and scratched up to further give it that look of “nothing to see here: move along,” there’s nothing that I’d be broken-hearted about, car included (other than that I like having a car). Without going into detail, my car was the scene of a different kind of crime ~5+ years ago and I’ve never been able to replace it due to a series of unfortunate events/bad timing. Just wasn’t possible.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I love the frunk of our Lightning. I fill it with all my tools, charging gear, recovery gear, air compressor, etc. I put all the stuff we don't want to leave in the bed of the truck and definitely don't want in the cabin in case of an accident. We also put our suit cases in it when on road trips. Sometimes a folding table, and a camp chair or two. This photo shows poor organization because I was rushed on getting ready for our last trip. There's a lot more space in there than it appears.

 

[Logan]

Photos make it fun.

I went mountain biking yesterday. It was a pretty normal PNW riding day. It was actively raining pretty hard for around here, which means it was wetter… but simultaneously cleaner (active rain means more wet/less mud, after rain is the other way around).

But I snapped a quick photo of some of the gear after a quick hour long ride. And this is exactly the stuff that I’d LOVE to throw in a frunk, instead of the passenger seat footwell.

 

[R1TVT]

Photos make it fun.

I went mountain biking yesterday. It was a pretty normal PNW riding day. It was actively raining pretty hard for around here, which means it was wetter… but simultaneously cleaner (active rain means more wet/less mud, after rain is the other way around).

But I snapped a quick photo of some of the gear after a quick hour long ride. And this is exactly the stuff that I’d LOVE to throw in a frunk, instead of the passenger seat footwell.

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Curious - is this standard practice for the PNW? In the NE, its pretty much frowned-upon everywhere to rip around on our trails when it's actively raining and when single track is vulnerable. We have been in a major drought here for the last year, so not much rain to speak of though.

 

[Chaparral]

I love the frunk of our Lightning. I fill it with all my tools, charging gear, recovery gear, air compressor, etc. I put all the stuff we don't want to leave in the bed of the truck and definitely don't want in the cabin in case of an accident. We also put our suit cases in it when on road trips. Sometimes a folding table, and a camp chair or two. This photo shows poor organization because I was rushed on getting ready for our last trip. There's a lot more space in there than it appears.


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I sometimes carry tools to work and that often means having them on semi-on-display for short periods in my hatchback. The funk is going to be awesome for this!

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I sometimes carry tools to work and that often means having them on semi-on-display for short periods in my hatchback. The funk is going to be awesome for this!

About once a month I have to run out to a job site that's off-grid. I pile all my tools into the frunk and bed, toss my camping fridge into the bed plug it in, charge to 100% overnight, load the tractor onto the trailer, hook up the trailer, and drive the 50 miles to the job site. When I arrive, I have my sandwiches, cold drinks, etc., in the fridge, which is running off the truck's battery; I have power to run my tools or recharge their batteries, and etc. In the summer, I'll purposefully schedule a meeting or two during this site visit because it easily reaches 120 ºF during the middle of the day, so I sit in the truck with the AC running and talk for two to four hours.

For a 9-12 hour job, I use less than 10% of the drive battery while running the fridge, running a jackhammer, vacuum, tools, etc. hosting several zoom meetings with the AC blasting and powering my laptop. The truck is powered on the entire time, providing power to all those items.

The Lightning is the best remote jobsite truck I've ever owned.

 

[Logan]

Curious - is this standard practice for the PNW? In the NE, its pretty much frowned-upon everywhere to rip around on our trails when it's actively raining and when single track is vulnerable. We have been in a major drought here for the last year, so not much rain to speak of though.

Yep, standard practice here. The soil here drains very well, and doesn’t have much clay(a lot of sand in its composition). So the trails hold up very well in the wet.

I know in other places that it’s often even aggressively frowned upon (I’ve visited and ridden trails with big signs saying “if you leave a tire impression you shouldn’t be riding” in both CA and UT). But around here, it’s standard practice. No trails were closed, and no trails were harmed, I promise .

I’ll have to dig up a video of common riding conditions here.

If we didn’t ride in the rain, we’d have a 3mon riding season. Instead it’s a solid 11-12 months of the year, as we usually only get a handful of snow days blocking the lower elevation trails.

 

[R1TVT]

If we didn’t ride in the rain, we’d have a 3mon riding season. Instead it’s a solid 11-12 months of the year, as we usually only get a handful of snow days blocking the lower elevation trails.

I was guessing that would be part of the answer. Send some rain East.

 

[Logan]

I was guessing that would be part of the answer. Send some rain East.

It likely does. Its definitely a "come rain or shine, we ride" sort of attitude around here. In the 6 years I've been riding here, I've seen... I think 2 trails closed due the weather?

As promised, here is a random video of what it looks like to ride in this area in the winter time.

This is from an officially sanctioned event on public trails (part of a local racing series). If you watch through, the guy does say that these are pretty bad conditions, and I'd agree, what is shown is definitely on the worse end of things (not the worst, but not good either).

(not my video, but I have ridden here).

And again, not trying to derail this. Just saying that having a nice place to sit while changing out of clothes that are covered in mud, and a place to toss them that isn't in the main passenger compartment, is something I'm looking forward to.

 

[Scoutsie]

It likely does. Its definitely a "come rain or shine, we ride" sort of attitude around here. In the 6 years I've been riding here, I've seen... I think 2 trails closed due the weather?

As promised, here is a random video of what it looks like to ride in this area in the winter time.

This is from an officially sanctioned event on public trails (part of a local racing series). If you watch through, the guy does say that these are pretty bad conditions, and I'd agree, what is shown is definitely on the worse end of things (not the worst, but not good either).

(not my video, but I have ridden here).

And again, not trying to derail this. Just saying that having a nice place to sit while changing out of clothes that are covered in mud, and a place to toss them that isn't in the main passenger compartment, is something I'm looking forward to.

That was exhilarating to watch, but yikes, that trail was shot to shit. That is not something that I, a person out of practice and of questionable balance, would want to hit up. Concur that having an easily-cleaned place for the caked-on mud and blood (ask me about my 100% organic earth-borne knee tattoos) and whatever other tragedies are borne of thinking “this is the day I give clipless pedals another try!” is clutch.

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

Photos make it fun.

I went mountain biking yesterday. It was a pretty normal PNW riding day. It was actively raining pretty hard for around here, which means it was wetter… but simultaneously cleaner (active rain means more wet/less mud, after rain is the other way around).

But I snapped a quick photo of some of the gear after a quick hour long ride. And this is exactly the stuff that I’d LOVE to throw in a frunk, instead of the passenger seat footwell.

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I’ve lived this very situation many, many times in my life. I get it and I completely agree with you. I never want all of that nasty gear inside if I can avoid it. Less clean-up is always better so being able to avoid spreading it into the interior would be great. Thanks for bringing this to life with pictures for those who haven’t lived it.

 

[R1TVT]

And again, not trying to derail this. Just saying that having a nice place to sit while changing out of clothes that are covered in mud, and a place to toss them that isn't in the main passenger compartment, is something I'm looking forward to.

Yes, this is the nice thing about the R1T gear tunnel. I use that tunnel (and the seat for this purpose) all the time. And for putting on ski boots.