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Charge port location

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#1 ·
Driving home today, thru a touristy part of town .. I notice they had set up on street designated parking spots for green vehicles with chargers. There was a fellow Wrangler 4xe, with a fully stretched charger cable over the hood from the sidewalk charger station. It was one of those with an arm to hold the extra cable up and bungee cord to retract it back. It looked like the charger plug was able about to snap out too..

Which got me thinking, would it make more sense to have the charge port on the passenger side? Then as you parallel park, the port would be closer to charger stations on the sidewalk.

Is there actually anything on the passenger side cowel, useable space to mod it into a second charge port? Perhaps the UK variant of the 4xe has it flipped, so the port housing part is flipped too?
 
Discussion starter · #13 ·
Just coming back from Europe, most on street chargers would have you bring your own charger cable. One end specific to your car make, the other standardized to fit the charger station. It’s a good system, no more dealing with charge stations with too short cables or broken ones at that. Saw a few cars using a bike chain to prevent cable theft.