To provide an electric tow tractor to be used on a flat surface of a floor in a factory or a warehouse, configured to allow a driver to easily check rearward for a state and attitude of towing a towing track etc., to easily get on/off a driver's seat, and to maintain safe driving, in order to achieve quick and accurate operation due to frequent boarding/alighting of the driver.

This electric tow tractor includes a hand stay 26 located at a lateral upper position of a seat cover 13 and below a seat part of a driver's seat 1 to extend in a forward and rearward direction of the electric tow tractor, and an operating lever 27 located below the hand stay 26 to hold the hand stay 26 and to be turned to release an engaged and connected state of a connection disconnection unit 9.