I think its slightly different because you are not forced into the loyalty programs. You can still buy fuel with a card at the pump without registration. With the app you can’t use the charger without registration.

See that CircleK has simple cars options on 90% of their stations, and that several others are updating their chargers with card payment option.

They mention Norway in the article and it’s NOT hard to find a fuel pump. Granted many petrol stations has shut down, but often at least one pump remain. And many stations has rebranded as “energy stations”.

What bugs me with the EV market is how you need a fucking app for every fucking vendor when charging on the road (and how Tesla cornered many of the prime spots and tried shut everyone else out)

Filling up with diesel/petrol I just tap my card at the pump and validate with pin. With EV it’s apparently “not possible”. And many of these vendors dont spend much on their crap software. Its pure lock-in.

Sad story. Died at 28 from drugs after living on the streets. From Wikipedia: “During the evening of June 8, 2021, Skye told friends and coworkers that “the FBI and the Mafia were after her [and] she was going to go become a Hells Angel biker”. Everyone she called refused her a place to stay, so she walked from the San Fernando Valley to Los Angeles’ Skid Row. In the early hours of June 9, Skye asked to nap in a stranger’s recreational vehicle; she was seen smoking something before lying on the man’s couch. A short time later she was discovered deceased there,[2] at 652 Moulton Avenue.[14]”