Although most new electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) come with leads so you can use domestic and public chargers, this wasn’t always the case. If you buy a used electric car, you ...

When we recently covered the topic of high voltage safety with respect to mains powered equipment, we attracted a huge number of your comments but left out a key piece of the puzzle. We take our mains ...

Electric vehicles should be the most straightforward things, on the basis that we spend half our lives plugging stuff in. Phones, vacuums, household appliances, we’re no strangers to sticking cables ...

A reversible 8-pin plug and socket for Apple mobile devices (the plug inserts in either orientation). Lightning is one end of the cable, with USB Type A at the other. Introduced in 2012 with the ...

Phillips Industries has developed an auxiliary vertical dual-pole plug and socket that meets the new SAE J3082 standards for high-current connections between a tractor and trailer. Phillips Industries ...

(AP) -- Bye, Lightning cable. Hello, USB-C. Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting a more widely used connection ...