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'World first'... Perhaps for the size.

Certainly not world's first electric delivery truck.

Electric milk delivery trucks ("milk floats" [1]) were a common sight in the UK from the 1950s until the 1980s, when doorstep delivery of milk started to decline.

There are still a few around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float

Yeah we still have a milk float doing its round (England) and it is electric (and quite beat-up, looks old). When we hear that "wizz" sound in the morning we know it's the guy.

Edit: Our local one looks like a "Dairy Crest Smith's Elizabethan milk float" in the Wikipedia page's pictures.

Yeah Deutsche Post was first I think.

I’ve seen a electric DPD truck in my town in NL for a couple of years at the least.

It is pretty small and only used in the inner city for supplying shop it seems. I live 50m from the center and DPD always shows up with a normal van here

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