Battle over electric plug standards

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I may be talking rubbish here but that's always a risk. The best solution for charging would involve the socket being dead until an EV was plugged in, surely?

So why not plug the car in and then use a chip (and/or pin) card? If the plug is removed the supply is cut. To prevent malicious or accidental removal a retaining bar secured by the drivers own padlock would do.

At the moment a conventional car can fill up anywhere so I think that a standard plug, even if a special design would be an advantage.