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Tube, train, tram, and car : or up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. Beavan presents advancements in the use of electric powered transportation up to publication in 1903, and weighs the advantages and drawbacks of electricity at the time of writing.  

Ideas for future uses of electric power for transport are shared as well - one being ‘steel roads forming a broad rail upon which self-propelled coaches, omnibuses, cabs, and cars will ply in every direction’, attributed to Mr A. A. C. Swinton (page 227). The author also speculates the wider impacts of electric powered transport, including predictions about commuting, housing, and pollution.