Pickup

Chevrolet blazes a new trail with the Silverado EV, reimagining its full-size truck into a versatile e-pickup with 400-mile range and 664 hp. The electric Silverado sports an all-new look, expandable bed and hands-free Super Cruise with trailering.

An electric Hummer pickup is cool and all, but it's a nonstarter for the average pickup buyer. GMC has given the world its first impression of a more mainstream pickup today, showing the brightly lit face of the electric Sierra.

Much like 2020 before it, 2021 made much of the population want to forget about civilization to seek out the embrace of open, natural spaces. The year also brought plenty of clever 4x4 camper rigs for reaching those spaces and making home of them.

The inflatable Air-Topper from California-based Flated provides the cargo-containing security of a shell when the driver needs it but gets out of the way immediately when they don't, deflating and packing small enough to take up a fraction of the bed.

Loki Basecamp introduced itself this year with the Falcon pickup camper. A beautiful product, the Falcon also wore a hefty six-figure price tag. With the new Icarus, Loki puts together a smaller, more affordable pickup-top overland micro-home.

Usually tents pitch on either the ground or a vehicle roof, but the new C6 Rev tent does both and also jumps into a truck to triple as a pickup tent. So wherever you make camp, the Rev ensures you get the sleep you need for the next day's adventures.

There are certain to be plenty of Cybertruck-specific campers, but Form Camper has designed a pickup camper for both the Cybertruck and traditional pickups. The camper starts off as a carbon fiber box before growing into a hard-walled truck hut.

Toyota marries a Tacoma TRD Sport pickup chassis with a custom "micro-house" to create the amazing Tacozilla 4x4 mini-RV. If there was ever a time humanity needed a Toyota camper truck for going "anywhere on this planet," that time is now.

EdisonFuture will introduce itself in a big way at this month's LA Auto Show, premiering an all-electric van and an e-pickup. It calls its EF1-V a delivery van, but large all-terrain tires and a rugged body form give it the look of an old-school SUV.

Squeezing a bathroom into a pickup camper without making the truck a big, lumbering beast on road and trail is no easy task. The Flip90's power-rotating design creates a hard-sided shower/toilet room that also adds elbow room and indoor cooking.

Rossmönster has years of experience creating the type of homey camper van that inspires people to declare the road their home. Now it takes a big step off-road, offering a hard-wall pop-up camper truck every bit as warm and comfy as its vans.

GM will kick off 2022 by premiering the much-anticipated all-electric Chevy Silverado at CES. The electric pickup will represent one of GM's first steps in a more mainstream EV direction, as electrics become a bigger part of its production.