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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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Ironically, the car it's based on does slightly resemble the cyber truck, but in a reasonable size and not stupidly raw steel.
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 CO~2~ to it to make a synthetic hydrocarbon fuel, not try to use it as-is in a hydrogen car!
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.
Yes, but there’s new sodium batteries on the way.
https://sodiumbatteryhub.com/2025/05/05/catl-naxtra-sodium-ion-batteries/
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.
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.