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Last year Electrify America, an electric vehicle advocacy group, applied to the Unicode Consortium to have their design for an EV charger added to the emoji lexicon:
The design was rejected, and no wonder; it's terrible. At emoji scale the thing on the right simply reads as a gas pump, with the tiny yellow plug too small to read, and making no sense besides; those are dual household prongs, whereas current EV charging plugs have no exposed prongs. On top of that, what's with the front view of a 1985 Crown Victoria, rather than a side profile of an iconic EV car shape?
This week EA is trying again, submitting a new design that's charger-centric:
While it's better than last year's design, I still think they need some indication of a car in profile, preferably a Prius or Tesla. What do you think?
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Last Year's Emoji Design for an EV Charger Rejected. Is This Year's Design "Fixed?"
I hardly use emojis so not sure what this would be for. I think it's readable at the small size, I'd question the choice of the pill-shape of the charging station, and not sure what that grey rectangle between the charge lightning and the LED ring is. Agree adding silo of a vehicle would tell a better story.