Electric Cars Are Weirdly Skeuomorphic
Charging cables look like gasoline hoses — and that’s a problem
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9 min readDec 9, 2021
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Recently I was watching someone recharge their electric car and it struck me: It looks exactly like someone refueling a gasoline car.
They pulled their car up to the charging station, grabbed the big nozzle on the charging cable, lifted the cap on their car’s recharge…