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.
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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/
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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.
Ironically, the car it’s based on does slightly resemble the cyber truck, but in a reasonable size and not stupidly raw steel.