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0 pointsGravityloss5y ago0 comments

I understand similar fragmentation exists in payments for electric car charging. You need lots of cards, accounts, qr codes, sms and calls. This makes all the technological progress with billions poured into it not very useful, if you can't trust that you can charge on a road trip.

Someone could make a single app that would handle all that for you.

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zamalek5y ago

It's called Plugshare and it works with most networks, and probably only works on Android (due to Apple's payment restrictions).

theshrike795y ago

YMMV.

I can't pay on any of the charging points I use, not on iOS or Android.

Even if I could, it'd most likely use the roaming price of $FUCKTON, so no thanks.

zamalek5y ago

Yeah, I typically use Electrify America (range anxiety has been replaced by "is the charger broken anxiety" and EA is hella reliable), and they don't support Plugshare. Apparently they are working on account identification through the charging cable, if that catches on this mess could really be a thing of the past. I'm going off-topic, though.

joosters5y ago

...and now we have one more incompatible standard (insert obligatory XKCD link here)

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0 pointsGravityloss5y ago0 comments

Someone could make a single app that would handle all that for you.

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zamalek5y ago

It's called Plugshare and it works with most networks, and probably only works on Android (due to Apple's payment restrictions).

theshrike795y ago

YMMV.

I can't pay on any of the charging points I use, not on iOS or Android.

Even if I could, it'd most likely use the roaming price of $FUCKTON, so no thanks.

zamalek5y ago

joosters5y ago

...and now we have one more incompatible standard (insert obligatory XKCD link here)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse