Maybe it’s the retro-futuristic style or reminiscent of sci-fi and cyperpunk, but I genuinely really like the design.
I would never buy one due to the MYRIAD issues plaguing the stainless steel body, interior build quality, or give Tesla money. But still a cool looking car, if nonfunctional truck.
Meanwhile, in actual Cyberpunk media. I disagree with you so hard that I deeply regret I only have one upvote to give. Well done.
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Nice. It’s certainly a step in the right direction.
It’s a hydrogen car, so a step in the wrong direction
I’m talking about aesthetics, not functionality.
Why is hydrogen a step in the wrong direction?
Because hydrogen is a greenwashing scam designed to prop up fossil fuels. They market it as eco-friendly based on the notion that you can make hydrogen by electrolyzing water using electricity from renewables, but in practice almost all of it comes steam-reforming of natural gas.
Frankly, at that point you might as well just pipe the natural gas to the fuel stations and build CNG cars with normal combustion engines (or at least natural gas fuel cells) instead.
And it’s never going to fulfill that promise in the long-term either, because hydrogen gas storage technology sucks even worse than batteries and is just falling even further behind as battery technology improves.
Hell, even if we did have an excess of cheap renewable electricity with which to electrolyze water into hydrogen gas, the most practical and effective way to store and transport it for automotive use would be to add CO2 to it to make a synthetic hydrocarbon fuel, not try to use it as-is in a hydrogen car!
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A hydrogen car is a terrible idea.
Hydrogen is expensive to make and transport. So many electrical losses plus it would need more trucks on the road to deliver it to fueling stations.
It leaks extremely easily.
As of now, it requires platinum as a catalyst which is one of the most rare metals on earth.
Battery tech is changing every year. Sodium batteries should be right around the corner which the manufacturer claims will cost a lot less and be much less dangerous.
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Yes, but there’s new sodium batteries on the way.
https://sodiumbatteryhub.com/2025/05/05/catl-naxtra-sodium-ion-batteries/
Ironically, the car it’s based on does slightly resemble the cyber truck, but in a reasonable size and not stupidly raw steel.
200 unites in 2026. Definitely going to be some dort of collector car or something unfortunately because now I want my Honda to limp by until those come out.
What I really want is this Cadillac electric concept vehicle that is like the car of a rich Shadowrun villain who has a sexy, mute personal assistant who is also a cyborg ninja assassin.
This isn’t a concept vehicle, it’s the Cadillac Celestiq. Got to test drive one once; feels great, handles great. Emphasis on “rich” Shadowrun villain though. Lucky for you, if you have a spare 350K lying around, it can be yours today!
(obligatory fuck GM, they as a company are personally responsible for this car-dependent hellscape we live in, for the destruction of many communities, and of course they are happy to provide luxury vehicles for the wealthy to navigate it as painlessly as possible. This is not an ad and my knowledge of this vehicle was acquired involuntarily. The least I could get out of it was a turn at the wheel.)
Also, consider this an official petition to bring back (affordable) station wagons (yes, that is what this is) in the EV age instead of bending over backwards to get any sort of useful range out of trucks (including the ones masquerading as SUVs.)
I respect and admire your priorities - and your awareness of Shadowrun. Clearly, you’re a person of culture.
This car is way cooler
I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with a sports car, though. That’s a different genre.
We’re talking about Cyberpunk aesthetics. Christ, the only thing in lore that looks even remotely like the Cybertruck is the Makigai MaiMai.
It’s more an 80s aesthetic than cyberpunk aesthetic. It’s basically a big dumbed down version of a Delorean.
Agreed. In fact, the Delorean was pretty darned Cyberpunk for its time.
I’d say that it’s 80s concept car aesthetic specifically, which is what a lot of people found attractive about it when it was announced. Then we saw more and more of it, and it started to look less like a concept car and more like a rolling dumpster with the same levels of tetanus risk as the real deal.
I think the cars in 2077 also have an 80s aesthetic, but it’s 80s retro-futurism dystopia (cyberpunk was founded in the 70s and 80s, so it makes perfect sense) which runs the full gambit from supercar to super cheap, and I’d take any of those over the Cybertruck any day.
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Huh. I have no issue directly accessing the file. Still, I’m sure you can all find examples of car designs from CP2077 on your own.