I stuck a cable guide to the inside of the side cover. All I have to do to plug in is just reach behind the cover with two fingers and pull the wire out. It was the easiest thing I found to keep it from falling onto the exhaust.
No matter where you end up with the charging plug,you do need to secure the harness which is long per the owners manual.I didn't and always popped side cover loose at bottom and pulled plug out and when I was done just pushed harness back up into side cover until one day I noticed sparks from behind cover and found drive belt had cut into harness.When I would push harness back up into cover it would end up looping over drive belt. Lesson learned.