Want an Electric-Car Emoji? VW's Electrify America Has Launched a Petition

From Car and Driver

• After being turned down with its EV emoji proposal last year, Volkswagen's EV organization, Electrify America, is back with an improved icon that focuses on the charger, not the car.

• The group has set up an online petition for supporters to chime in, and it currently stands at around 800 signatures.

• If approved, we wouldn’t see the new icon until September 2022, thanks to COVID-19–related delays.

It's not real until there's an emoji for it. That's the world we live in, right? If so, then get ready for electric vehicles to make true progress once the Unicode Consortium agrees that what we really need right now is an EV emoji.

Electrify America, the organization formed to spend the $2 billion that Volkswagen was required to pay out to promote electric vehicles after Dieselgate, has proposed a new EV icon to the Consortium for possible inclusion in that group's upcoming emoji update. The icon is a simple EV charger, similar to the gas-pump emoji that already exists, but with a plug instead of a pump handle.