Different fuel types is categorically different. The fact that you can't run a petroleum engine on diesel is not a restriction placed on the car by the vendor,

Different fuel types is categorically different. The fact that you can't run a petroleum engine on diesel is not a restriction placed on the car by the vendor, it's just physics. My example would be, what if your car refused to accept fuel at a given gas station because that station did not sign a licensing agreement with Honda? Or what if your car refused to drive to restaurants which were not approved by the manufacturer? I think we would all agree that would seem very strange indeed, and people would be livid. EV's with different plug types are a relatively new thing, using DRM for charging stations seems pretty weird if you ask me. It's a similar situation with BMW's move to lock heated seats behind a paywall as a software feature. A lot of people are quite livid about other industries trying to adopt these kinds of norms from software.