Looks to me like the panel in the front of the car is an openable panel! Perhaps this area contains the 'charge center' providing the connections at the front of the vehicle as does the leaf. If so it appears that there is space for the panel to be locked closed supplying security to the connection and allowing the cord to travel through the lower or upper opening, though I think the lower makes more sense. If so this design protects the connector while plugged in to a public charge facility and unattended. Sound plausable?? Seems to make sense to me since the charge point access that used to be on the left rear quarter panel seems to have been deleted in the Alpha model.