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CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — Pickups get all the headlines as vehicle workhorses. With ladder frames and rear beds, they can tow 10,000 pounds while hauling 2,500 pounds of payload and four workers the size of Detroit Lions middle linebackers. But what if you don’t need all that utility all the time?…

GAYLORD, Michigan — Sitting at my third fast-charger of the day in my 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning EV tester, I watched a gas-powered F-150 pull in front of me in Gaylord’s Meijer parking lot.

CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — Like a Great Lakes passenger ship, the bow of my Cadillac Escalade cut through the fog of an April snow shower. Sure-footed, diesel-powered, on autopilot to our port of call.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government will deploy helicopters, net guns, specially built traps and tranquillizer darts to capture and fence in animals from two isolated wild caribou herds to save them from dying out, the Wildlife Department said Wednesday.