Pickup

Back in 2014, guitarist Andy Alt launched a Kickstarter for an electric guitar pickup that added a separate drop-octave signal to the instrument's lowest strings, A Little Thunder started shipping mid-2015, and now version two has been released.

Every year, the Chicago Auto Show opens as the largest motor show in North America. There are two galleries of vehicles in the massive McCormick Center downtown, each with a lot of space for a lot of vehicles to be shown and seen.

For the first time in its history, Jeep has unveiled a desert-focused high-speed sand runner. The Jeep Gladiator Mojave was unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show with a newly-minted “Desert Rated” badge where the “Trail Rated” emblem would usually be.

Forget the Tesla Cybertruck camper because there's a stranger electric pickup camper roaming the world. The Electric Frog camping scooter sends the worlds of truck camping, motorcycle camping and EV camping into a fantastic collision.

Is the world ready to welcome a new, improved Hummer, if it promises to play nice with the environment? We'll find out because GM has announced Hummer's return as an all-electric GMC truck with supercar specifications.

Ram has put a lot of work into its new-generation heavy-duty pickup trucks. About a year ago, Ram introduced the all-new 2019 Ram HD lineup in Detroit. We've recently been putting the 2020 Ram 2500 Limited trim through its paces.

The world of full-sized pickup trucks, which are the best-selling vehicles in North America, has become very interesting. These once purely utilitarian vehicles have become much more, and nothing highlights their growing popularity quite as well as the booming after-manufacture add-on market.

Tesla wasn't the only company to reveal an electric pickup truck in November. Neuron EV revealed its own vision of the near-future e-pickup, and it feels like it'll be much more palatable to the general public than Musk's art project.

After the Cybertruck launch, we weren't sure if the camper kit was a planned product or just Tesla showing the ways the Cybertruck could be used. Musk put a quick end to the speculation today, confirming succinctly that the Tesla camper is go.

Tesla's Cybertruck looks nothing like what we were prepared for. Tesla's pickup camper, however, looks like something we've seen ... the late, great Pontiac Aztek. Will Tesla turn its new e-pickup into an equally weird but more capable camper?

The Jeep Gladiator is a super-capable off-road platform, and drop a camper on it and it also makes a rock-solid overlander. For those looking for a fast, affordable and simple solution, AT Overland offers lightweight sleeper tops under $10K.

Once again, Karma leaps into an auto show with multiple debuts and announcements. Those start immediately with the impressive SC2, an all-electric 1,100-hp supercar concept, extending through an electrified pickup truck lurking in the shadowy future.