Electric utility vans can claim to have roots in the late 19th century. Many aspects of the electric-vehicle industry also date back this far, but electric utility vans have one of the strongest claims to this length of time. This is because utility vans have been around in one form or another since almost the original creation of the automobile. In the 1880s and 1890s when automobiles were first developed,...

Electric utility vans have become highly developed in some senses and not very developed in others.  In order to understand the full history of the electric utility van, you need to understand both sides of this particular story. The first side of the story starts in the middle of the 20th century.  Around this time, a lot of experimentation was done on electrification of vehicles in the event of needing...