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How wasteful would it be to build a car with charging ports on both sides?

Would use far more resources than most other conveniences you find in a car, but would also be a far more substantial quality of life improvement than the other stuff.

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I think more likely if Tesla charging is becoming the standard, just build all cars to have a charge port in the same place. I’ve never understood the need to be creative with where you put a plug/gas nozzle. If that’s your differentiation you’ve got worse problems.

I doubt they're being creative. Far more likely they're locating the charging port based on the needs of the vehicle's internal layout. Or to be consistent with the manufacturer's standard, which was likely set by the needs of their first EV's internal layout.

Are fuel inlet sides consistent with the handedness of traffic in the home market of the brand? Perhaps with occasional exceptions in brands aiming for extra britishness to appear more "sports car"?

The only technical reason I could think of to put it on the passenger side would be for chargers when parallel parking on the street.

Audi do.

Only one of them does DC charging though. The dual thing is more meant for flexibility at home.

Nice example of how adding a trickle charger port is trivial, but a fast charge port would not be. Chances are in this case the mechanical parts are more expensive than the extra wiring and electronics. Almost makes me wonder if we might one day see a reboot of the magic cupholder invasion but with conveniently located trickle charger ports instead.

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