Plug me in, then off for a Spin by ladymagpie

Plug me in, then off for a Spin

I had to go up to my football club, Forest Green Rovers, to pick up my coming season's pass. Whilst there I took a couple of pictures of some of something you wouldn't see at most professional football clubs.

These are the cars that some of the players and football staff drive, very bright and you really know when they are around. They are all electric cars and the players just plug them into these power supply units, then after training or matchdays they just unplug them and off they go.

When they first came out I told people that they would need a very long lead like the vacuum cleaner, then after a mile the would need to stop and plug in again to a nearby house. Some gullible people believed me which was I found quite amusing.

Thank you all for your recent comments and FAV's, view with the dark surround if you have time.
My partner has an electric car, he usually drives mine for long distances!
June 29th, 2016  
Great shot Heather
June 29th, 2016  
ecotricity - i've heard of that name somewhere
June 29th, 2016  
I hope there will be a lot more electric cars in the future!
June 29th, 2016  
That's one fun car. And loved the commentary! Instant fav for me!
June 29th, 2016  
Bep
I agree with @congaree.
June 29th, 2016  
A super capture. Fav!! 😃
June 29th, 2016  
Very striking & so uplifting to see a football team have a sensible frugal car. That's the trouble with our over paid, under trained, non committed, owners of obscenely over the top models of fancy cars, too much money & not wanting to spoil the hair do....I could go on!
June 29th, 2016  
My cousin has one...he had to plug in here to recharge!
June 29th, 2016  
A great shot of a great car. I love it.
June 29th, 2016  
Great shot
June 29th, 2016  
Nice shot and I love your story. Don't tell the gullible people what happens in a power cut, ha ha.'

I told a friend of mine that the word gullible is the only word not in the dictionary, I must have sounded convincing because later she phoned me and said "Yes it is in the dictionary I have just looked it up". I said "Of course it is and what does it mean, could it be something like believing everything that people tell you". ha ha.
June 29th, 2016  
Great find
June 30th, 2016  
Look forward to more plug in stations :)
June 30th, 2016  
aha! The car of the future! wonderful to see them.
June 30th, 2016  
It's the driver-less car that scares me, in tests this week it bumped into something! Must get an eco car but not in green! Fav
July 2nd, 2016  
Well spotted and captured. That color really pops.
July 3rd, 2016  
@skstein Thanks Sandy, that's the colour of my football team Forest Green Rovers (FGR)
July 4th, 2016  
Great idea if they ever get the batteries right and a safe way to dispose of them... need some that will travel over a few 100 miles, a lot of the hybrids really do more eco damage than fossil fuel, its pretty though
July 6th, 2016  
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