In the last week of the month alone, the Senate marched toward advancing the GOP's tax bill, the Dow topped 24,000, Bitcoin leaped above $11,000, President Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos and invoked a rebuke from British Prime Minister Theresa May, Matt Lauer was fired after allegations of sexual misconduct, and North Korea tested another ICBM (a fact that is, as WIRED's own Lily Hay Newman puts it, even scarier than that sounds on its own). Oh, and the public continued to sound alarms about the impending end of net neutrality. But, in the WIRED realm, a small bit of wonderment prevailed. When Elon Musk and his electric big rig rumbled onto the scene on November 16, the news captured more eyeballs than you can shake a turkey leg at. As our own transportation team put it, the semitruck--powered by an enormous battery that runs up to 500 miles on a single charge--marks one more mile traveled on Musk's quest to unshackle humanity from its reliance on oil and gas, and drive us--autonomously, of course--into a cleaner future.