Electric Cars Are Weirdly Skeuomorphic

Charging cables look like gasoline hoses — and that’s a problem

“Close-up of a charging station cable plugged into an electric car,” by Ivan Radic

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…