Illustration by Wenkai Mao

Hyperdrive

Your Next Car Will Probably Be an Electric Pickup Truck

With their mass appeal, automakers say selling battery-powered models should be a breeze. If they ever get made.

A suggestion for auto advertisers: Nix the hard hats.

Tone down the falling lumber, avalanches of boulders and slow-motion suspension sag as a super-sized truck bed swallows all that dreck.