Off-road

UK startup Fering is gearing up to build electric vehicles for cross-continental explorers. It's starting out with the Pioneer, a go-anywhere brick outhouse of a thing designed for monster range figures under the most extreme circumstances on Earth.

TruckHouse announced its BCT Toyota mini-RV earlier this year, and now it's complete. The truck camper combines the off-roadability of the Tacoma TRD, the light, tough performance of carbon fiber, and the comfort of a luxurious mobile mini-home.

After shaking up the off-road camping trailer market with the EXP-6 back in 2016, Bruder is back with a new flagship. The EXP-8 puts the same burly exterior and comfy interior design into a more spacious package built for four-season off-grid living.

There are now a fair number of electric cars that have a small, lightweight body in order to maximize their battery range. Well, the Pickman XR takes that same philosophy and applies it to a four-wheel-drive pickup truck.

Cupra is preparing to get dirty in as clean a way as possible. Not only is its all-new Tavascan Extreme E Concept motivated by pure electric power, but it incorporates components and solutions designed to be flexible, adaptable and sustainable.

Everyone's favorite small block of flats on wheels will be going battery-electric. Mercedes-Benz has released a new Concept EQG, a "near-production study" on what an electric G-Wagen will look like, without losing its off-road capabilities.

Zeus Electric Chassis and SylvanSport are teaming up to create a line of pure-electric RVs with the rugged capability to reach far-off launch points and campsites and the flexibility to carry plenty of gear and comfortably sleep the crew.

Skinny Guy aims to reinvent self-sufficient camping with a pickup truck solution. Its customizable box-of-adventure turns everything from the Rivian R1T e-pickup to a grumbling long-bed into an off-grid camper with kitchen, bed, dinette and toilet.

Hatchet Overland is preparing to enter the fray of go-anywhere 4x4 micro-RVs. Its lightweight Jeep Wrangler pop-up adds less than a foot of ride height, sets up in a minute flat, and pops up and out to create a comfy sleeper roof and standing height.

The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport is a new sport utility based on the Ford Escape, but with an emphasis on ruggedness and capability instead of family hauling utility. We spent a week behind the wheel and found it to be a surprisingly solid off-roader.

The Ford Nugget family resides at the top of our list of cool, clever European camper vans. It gets even better as Ford previews a Nugget Plus in ruggedized Trail guise that brings extra traction, dual sliding doors and Raptor-like looks.

When it comes to robots designed for traversing rough terrain, there are typically treaded and legged models. The new Tready robot, however, combines the best of both approaches, by utilizing its four treaded "flippers."