Electric utility vehicles

A utility vehicle is a work machine that happens to share its running gear with a passenger buggy. It carries a load rather than a foursome, it is measured in kilograms and bed dimensions rather than seats, and it is bought by a grounds team, a farm, a warehouse or a council rather than by a golf club. The questions are different too: what it will carry, whether the bed tips, how long it runs between charges, and what it replaces.

These guides answer those questions in the terms the job uses. Where a figure appears it is from a machine we actually list, because a payload quoted as a general truth is wrong for most vehicles wearing the same category name. Where a figure would depend on the model, the guide says so and points at the specification rather than guessing.

The comparison that decides most purchases is not between two electric vehicles. It is between an electric one and the diesel gator, pickup or compact tractor already in the yard, and that comparison turns on running cost, noise, ground damage and where the thing can legally go. Those have guides of their own here.