Not sure if you're being ironic, sarcastic, or what. The filler spout on ICEVs is most definitely not standardized on a single location. Most cars have it on the driver side but a non-insignificant number (including 3-4 in my ownership history) have it on the passenger side. Enough so that I do see people trying to shimmy up close to the pump so the hose will reach the right side of the car -- or pull head in on the left side of the pump.
And also enough so that the car tells you which side the filler is on. If you look at the little pump symbol on your fuel gauge, you'll see "<" or ">" next to the pump icon. That tells you which side the filler is on. Pretty handy for a rental car.
Pretty sure it was sarcasm, but it's totally relevant.
I wrote a whole thing here trying to justify why randomly placed filler necks make sense on gas cars while homogenized placement makes sense on EVs, but I think I actually convinced myself that EV charging dispensers simply need to be pull-through just like gas stations.
On the gas car: pumps are relatively complicated devices that take up a fair bit of cost and space and can easily serve two vehicles for one installation. I suppose pumps ended up being pull-through early on because cars don't sit there for very long, you ideally want one on either side, and lines often do form even if briefly. Filling up isn't similar to parking, so the excess effort of reversing direction at the end of filling up doesn't make a lot of sense. In order to keep the flow of traffic all the same direction at a gas station, you kind of want a mix of cars with ports on either side, and each row of pumps can serve two lanes. Even if you have a car pointed the wrong way, it's only a modest inconvenience vs a lot of convenience if everyone's going the same direction.
L2 charging is literally parking, and the equipment installation costs aren't prohibitive anyway. You might as well take a normal parking lot and slap a lead on each space, and the leads can be long enough to hit a charge port any which where so it doesn't really matter. Even Tesla's AC charging hardware abides this - they've got a nice long 20ft lead which has the advantage it can hit a backed-in car two spaces over, if the first car finishes charging and a new car wants to take over.
I guess Tesla station designers adopted the same paradigm that charging is like parking, and they could easily get away with it because station design scales very nicely when you have to service vehicles that all look identical and aren't typically towing anything. And then EA followed suit.
I think it makes good sense to blame vehicle designers for not following Tesla's lead and identifying that a de-facto standard would be good for charging infrastructure. But at the same time, nobody's waiting in line at the movie theater for L2 EV charging, so I guess the layout paradigm actually does just shift depending on speed. I think pull-through stations make a lot more sense where vehicles are expected to charge fast and lines may form, not to mention supporting vehicles towing things. In a world where fast charging is pull-through and looks like a gas station, randomly placed ports kind of make a lot of sense.
