This is actually the second round of standards. The first had the GM/Hughes inductive paddle charger, which turned out to be really neat technology but a bit of a boondoggle in terms of cost. I'm not aware of this one still being used in any significant numbers.<p>The second was this huge ugly square thing made by a company called AVCON for conductive charging. This is the connector being replaced by the new one, know as Yazaki after the company that designed it.