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The success of electric and autonomous vehicles may rely not on the technologies themselves, but rather on the applications in which they are first used. Try to take an electric truck 500 miles across the country right now and it will fail. The technology can’t support that application yet...

“All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society,” Mr. Yang, 43, said over lunch at a Thai restaurant in Manhattan last month, in his first interview about his campaign. In just a few years, he said, “we’re going to have a million truck drivers out of work who are 94 percent male, with...