But a private capital monopoly is how this happened with gas stations in the first place! Esso stations, still found all over the US, come from the name “Stand

But a private capital monopoly is how this happened with gas stations in the first place! Esso stations, still found all over the US, come from the name “Standard Oil” - “SO”. It took the Sherman Antitrust act and government intervention for the economics of a decentralized system to make sense. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/337/293 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/337/293 If past is preamble, we should expect a monopoly of crappy charging experiences followed by trust busting and regulation that make a decentralized system possible. In my uninformed opinion I see a Wild West of taking the risk to find the right charging standards and business model, with a terrible user experience. But that is how many industries have gone before too.