Electrically powered vehicle and feed cart

An electrically powered vehicle comprising a chassis, an electric motor secured to the chassis, an electric plug-in cord, a reel having the electric plug-in cord operatively connected thereto and wound thereon, an electrical connection electrically joining the reel to the motor, a swivelling pulley carried by the chassis, operatively engaged by the cord, and laterally guiding the latter relative to the chassis, and a reel drive assembly rotatively biasing said reel toward operative winding of the cord thereon, said reel drive assembly including a lever pivoted to the chassis about an axis parallel to the rotation axis of the reel for movement toward and away from said reel, a friction drive wheel rotatably mounted on said lever for rotation about an axis parallel to the rotation axis of the reel, said lever being spring biased to bring said friction drive wheel in driving engagement with the periphery of said reel to rotate the latter in winding direction with respect to the electric cord, and said friction drive wheel displaceable with the support away from said driving engagement with the reel, and an idler pulley rotatively carried by said lever and operatively engaged and biased by the electric cord toward displacement of the lever away from said reel and of the rotary friction wheel away from driving engagement with the reel under predetermined tension in the electric cord.