As someone who's lived car-free my entire life (yay EU and good public transport), I'm baffled to find out charging a car even requires an app. How did we mana

As someone who's lived car-free my entire life (yay EU and good public transport), I'm baffled to find out charging a car even requires an app. How did we manage to fuck up something as basic as delivering power? We've been doing this for like, dunno, 150 years? I understand charging requires payment - why not a simple credit card terminal? Or gosh - a clerk that would accept cash, like what every single gas station in existence has been doing for over a century?