What's the best EV for carrying loads of stuff?

The Citroen e-SpaceTourer Electric is so big that it can carry its own name with the seats down

We all need to carry loads of stuff occasionally, it’s one of the inevitabilities of life, like rain and taxes. There are options – you’ve got a mate with a grubby looking Ford S-Max who can put an old sheet down and you throw everything in there. Or perhaps you’ll engage the services of a man with a particular set of van skills on the basis of a nicely written index card in your local newsagent.
Diesel was for a long time the default choice to propel such vehicles – the surge of torque available from a gutsy purveyor of fine particulates perfect for hauling heavy loads about the place. But of course we all know what happened, some cheeky scamps over in their secret lab at Volkswagen HQ ruined it for everyone. Now your man with a diesel van is sitting all alone in the corner of the room waiting for someone to dance with him.
Trust Citroen to come up with the solution to everyone’s problems, though – if you need to carry people, or stuff, or maybe even people and stuff you don’t need to look any further than the e-SpaceTourer Electric, the MPV-slash-minibus-slash-van named by a committee that was sitting inside it at the time. A no-nonsense electric load-lugger, mind – no gimmicky electric bird-based doors, just a big square box with big sliding doors on the side of it.
The e-SpaceTourer Electric is available in M and XL versions, depending on your needs – if it were available in the US market those would be XS and S versions, of course, but it’s all relative isn’t it. You can spec your e-SpaceTourer electric with up to nine seats in it, and the M’s boot is already a whopping 603 litres before you fiddle about with any of the seats, but you can take them all out and enjoy 3,968 litres of space in the back. It’s cavernous.
To put it into perspective, that’s 3,968 1-litre cartons of apple juice. If you were extra thirsty you could fit an incredible 4,554 cartons in the XL version with the seats removed. The mind boggles, and your imagination runs away with all the possibilities that such practicality affords.
You can’t let your imagination wander too far, mind, because the e-SpaceTourer Electric only has a range of 136 miles on the official WLTP test thanks to a comparatively small 50kWh battery. And who knows how low that 136-mile range would go if you were trying to lug a thousand gallons of fruit juice somewhere? And definitely check the weight restrictions on the car, those 4,500 litres of apple juice would definitely weigh over 4,700kg. Perhaps on seconds thoughts it is just safer to hire that bloke from the newsagent.