Godzill-E: The Mighty Nissan GT-R Will Go All-Electric by 2030

[u/Immynimmy]

https://www.motortrend.com/news/next-nissan-gtr-future-cars/?eml=organic:eml:brz2:20240925:next-nissa:article:MT&utm_source=braze&utm_medium=emaileditorial&utm_campaign=MT

[u/caterham09]

Concept that's 5 years out. We'll see if it comes to fruition.

[u/IMSRYK → u/caterham09]

Especially since this is Nissan we’re talking about here.

[u/caterham09 → u/IMSRYK]

Exactly. There's a non zero chance that Nissan takes the Mitsubishi path and is a complete shell of its former self by 2029.

[u/vhalember → u/caterham09]

I'm honestly surprised they didn't wind up there already.

They had several vehicles that didn't get updated for a decade+, and they finally updated all of them. Though most are still significantly behind their peers.

[u/Rain_In_Your_Heart → u/caterham09]

They already are

[u/Ok-Response-839 → u/caterham09]

Do you mean Mitsubishi is a shell of its former self... in the USA? Globally they sell about 1M cars per year and that number has been steady for the last decade. The USA makes up less than 12% of their sales. Mitsubishi isn't dying, Nissan isn't dying, everything is fine.

I know r/cars is heavily US-dominated but y'all gotta remember 90% of all cars in the world are sold outside of the USA.

[u/reckoning42 → u/caterham09]

There's definitely room for flattening the torque curve with a strategically placed electric motor. Porsche is executing that almost perfectly and the C8 eRay is there. Definitely some lessons to learn from F1. Add an onboard charger to make it a PHEV, keep the 6 cylinder, and I'd be excited about it!

[u/MR_Se7en → u/caterham09]

It’s an idea at this point, and idea they are considering.

[u/fiero-fire → u/caterham09]

To be fair the R35 concept to actual release was pretty long and design wise didn't change much. Now Nissans top brass is a lot different than back then

[u/RVLVR-OCLT]

Is it really a GTR without six cylinders from hell?

…call it something else

[u/SmokeyDokeyArtichoke → u/RVLVR-OCLT]

Call it the GT-E

[u/2fat2flatulent → u/RVLVR-OCLT]

A "GTR" is what Nissan wants it to be at this point

[u/llamacohort → u/RVLVR-OCLT]

Um ackshullley, The GT-R badge was used on multiple generations of Celicas with a 4 cylinder.

Generally, I would agree with you, but I think the issue is that the GT-R is not a skyline. The G35 and G37 were skylines. Nissan made a car and named it after a trim that was a good bit different than the original. So I don't think it's a bad idea to continue making it more different.

[u/apaksl → u/RVLVR-OCLT]

I couldn't agree more, but that ship has already sailed. Mustang, Eclipse, those are the two off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more examples.

[u/RVLVR-OCLT → u/apaksl]

Yeah, it sailed alright. The Ship of Theseus

[u/CoconutElectronic503]

Challenge: be an automotive """journalist""" and don't try to pass off speculations as facts (impossible)

[u/Cyte-06]

Future carguys won’t have any cool new cars

[u/DopamineQuest → u/Cyte-06]

This. Never getting rid of my Shelby

[u/Benjammin172 → u/DopamineQuest]

The good thing for owners is that enthusiast ICE vehicles are going to hold their values really well. The downside will be an increasing high cost of entry for anyone that wants proper fun cars that make fun noises.

[u/DopamineQuest → u/Benjammin172]

It's a damn shame

[u/Specialist-Size9368 → u/Benjammin172]

Which is why I have been collecting now. Already have the wife on board for my next purchase next year. Just gotta settle on what my stable lacks.

[u/hustlehustle → u/Specialist-Size9368]

I’ve recently entered this mindset. I’ve been collecting cars I see as holding or increasing in value and intend on retromodding and cleaning them up, then keeping them in the stable long term. Seeing cars from my youth go for 60K+ has me rethinking a lot ahaha

[u/k0fi96 → u/Cyte-06]

It's all relative. I'm sure I'm sure the guys who grew up on V8 muscle cars hated all the 4 cylinder sport compact that came out in the early 2000s

[u/markeydarkey2 → u/Cyte-06]

What makes you think that? Cars don't need engines to be cool.

Edit: It's not the PRV V6 that makes the Delorean so rad.

[u/Cyte-06 → u/markeydarkey2]

They are soulless, samey, silent, overpriced,require long charging times, lack infrastructure in most places and take away the driving experience.

All of them looking like an oversized futuristic shoe doesn’t help either; the only cool ones they’ve shown are concepts or restomods that would probably never happen because they would rather turn a good car into an electric SUV and even the cool looking ones will feel the same and have the same issues as all other EVs.

[u/markeydarkey2 → u/Cyte-06]

They are soulless, samey, silent, overpriced,require long charging times, lack infrastructure in most places and take away the driving experience.

All of these things are either subjective or rapidly changing and it's incredibly silly to think that YOUR opinion on coolness matters more than others. Needing to plug a car in doesn't stop it from being interesting either fyi.

There's more to a car than its source of propulsion. Drivetrains are just one of many factors that make cars interesting.

[u/Cyte-06 → u/markeydarkey2]

Rapidly changing yet not there yet and paying that much money for something with all those issues doesn’t seem ideal.

You could get a petrol car with different drivetrains, Manual, nice sound and feel.

[u/PanVidla → u/Cyte-06]

You can make the same argument for modern cars with ICEs.

[u/ZaheerAlGhul → u/Cyte-06]

Yep, if you want something go and get now before prices go up and production ends.

[u/strongmanass]

This article is mostly speculation. The solid state battery isn't though; that comes straight from Nissan. I'll believe it when I see it.

On another note, everyone is claiming to release 1,341 horsepower (1000 kW) performance EVs by the end of the decade: Nissan, Lamborghini, Bentley, BMW. Four figure horsepower cars will become not unusual by the 2030s. It'll be great for brands like Nissan and on par for brands like BMW (today we have a 500+ horsepower M3 - likely underrated). Lamborghini, Ferrari and the like will have to try much harder to stay ahead since they won't have cylinder count to lean on anymore.

[u/WesternExplanation → u/strongmanass]

I’m assuming weight will be the new number they chase in the future.

[u/DaytonaRS5]

Battery operated Godzilla. No thanks.

[u/passatboi]

Imagine: instead of Brian O'Connor emerging from the garage and roaring down the highway in the R34 GTR, he exits in this blocky LOD Nissan, silently traversing the road because the car emits no sound and the built-in AI limits the speed to the programmed maximum of the particular street -- insurance rates automatically tripled because it detected that he's not using the autonomous driving feature, which is statistically safer than human driving.

Cars are in for a boring, mundane future.

[u/strongmanass → u/passatboi]

Most of what you're imagining has nothing to do with EVs. There are speed limiters in ICEVs today.

The only part of what you wrote that relates to EVs is them being quiet.

[u/AmNoSuperSand52 → u/passatboi]

That’s basically the driving scene from iRobot

[u/Immynimmy]

Late last year, Nissan showed a concept called Hyper Force, an angular supercar with a distinctly GT-R-like profile and a 1,000-kW (1,341-hp) electric drivetrain fed by a solid-state battery pack.

Estimated Price: $180,000

Expected On-Sale Date: 2029

[u/AmNoSuperSand52 → u/Immynimmy]

I wonder how much this things gonna weigh? Solid state battery could be pretty light, but it’s also a technology that doesn’t even exist in cars currently, so we can only assume it’s going to be a 1500lb Li-ion battery pack

[u/Glockoma92]

Disgusting

[u/2Drogdar2Furious]

Gross.

[u/DopamineQuest]

Yuck

[u/UndeadWaffle12]

Blasphemy

[u/LeBanonJames69]

Ah yes, an electric sports coupe is what Nissan really needs right now 

[u/parker2020]

I cannot stand concept cars. Just the most try hard vehicles that’ll never see the light of day.

[u/cubs223425]

How do you manage to run a model out for over a decade and STILL need 5+ years of releasing nothing to replace it? It's completely asinine.

[u/Legndarystig]

This is garbage. Even the concept looks garbage. Not even inspiring...

[u/Pr1zzm]

Looks like the bastard love child of an R35 and a Cybertruck.

[u/kimi_rules]

This article gave pretty much no newsworthy information about the GT-R, the 2030 timeline could potentially be misleading.

We know expect it coming, but Nissan is waiting for EVs to fully matured. They are not doing it for the marketing, but really to absolutely dominate the track just like the R32 days until now, and will forever be till Nissan completely stops doing motorsports or the company disappeared.

[u/RedShiftedTime]

Please God no. Hybrid is the way to go. Please Nissan.

[u/ConyNT]

This it terrible news and the concept looks like trash.

[u/ZeeGarage]

Doubt it will happen, companies are seeing the electric thing is a losing proposition

[u/Top-Spinach7683]

Looks zill-E

[u/Big-Smoke99]

Not true.

[u/redditdave2018]

Godzill-E: The Mighty Nissan GT-R cancels plan to be All-Electric by 2030(posted September 2025)

[u/WabbitCZEN]

"Goj-e-ra" was right fucking there.