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The UI should be: you plug in and it gives you power and your credit card pays automatically. Done.

You never need to touch or see your credit card or phone at any time before, during, or after the charging process.

Guess what kind of EVs work this way already.

Nah. When I am taking a road trip, the last thing I want to do register an account for some random charging network I'm never going to use again (because I'm in a different part of the world). I just want to pay for my power and move on, just like I can pay for food or anything else on the trip.

When I am at home, I plug my car in and it goes on my monthly power bill. This is where the convenience matters.

If it's an international network, you'll probably use it again and it's probably not "some random" charging network. Agree about home convenience though.

But I need to put this credit card info into a car which I don't really own and then my "butt" starts randomly buying FSD. No thanks.

Haha ok. My car doesn’t have my credit card info and never has, but to be fair it is in an associated account, so your point still applies.

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