If they package a rear motor as efficiently as they packaged the front one you'd have no trunk at all... I can't fathom how they've managed to fill that much space up front, they really do want it to look just like every ICE under that hood.
The Bolt has an unusually short hood (or front overhang) area like the BMW i3 but the i3 has the motor in the rear. The various automotive systems (A/C, brake fluid and pumps, radiators, etc) need to go somewhere and the traditional easy to access and maintain area is up front under the hood. The Model S does the same but has a much larger hood area in which to hide things while having a frunk.
Sorry, not buying it, there are many ICE vehicles with even smaller hood areas, and the motor here should be smaller than an ICE. they've done things this way, not because they have to, not because it makes any sense, but because they've always done it this way, they may have started from the ground up to build an EV, but their thinking was still in the old ICE world.
Then get a tape measure and prove me wrong. We have many ice vehicles packaged more efficiently than the bolt, when it should be far better if it weren't built with an ice mindset
Scion iQ, Fiat 500, Chevy Spark, Mitsubishi Mirage, Toyota Yaris are all front engine FWD and have extremely short front overhangs. If I'm less lazy maybe I can do a diagram that compares. The Bolt is an extremely tall vehicle, so visually it's going to look shorter (although in absolute terms that might not be true).
