There's no technical reason the charging networks couldn't just swipe cards like gas pumps and almost all of them decided that they needed (weird, terrible) cus

There's no technical reason the charging networks couldn't just swipe cards like gas pumps and almost all of them decided that they needed (weird, terrible) custom apps and (overly complicated) sign up procedures. Setting up the charging points on the current networks in my experience happens in phone apps and you couldn't use the car's screen if you wanted to anyway. As everything moves to NACS in the US "plug-and-charge" should get a lot more common where you don't need to fiddle with a charging point's network's app any longer, because the car stores your payment info for you and transmits it when you plug in.