“If we had a star design for the day, it would be this one,” said Darren Bright, principle engineer for automotive repair at Thatcham Research.
Bright is pointing at a naked charge-point socket with attendant high-voltage cabling stripped from an electric car. Next to it is another, very similar-looking socket from a rival car maker illustrating the sort of thing that Thatcham hates: a piece of design that’s nightmarish to repair and therefore much costlier to company’s backers, the UK car insurance industry.
