A Rant on Owning a Modern EV

This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning. No, this post is just me complaining about the digital experiences that come with owning a modern vehicle, but especially with an EV. Yes, this is yet another edition of "Bad Technology that Chuck Doesn't Like". Let's take charging. At the apartment that I'm officially moved out of as of today, there was a convenient Blink Charging station within the complex which charges a reasonable 21 cents per kWh. There's four charging stations and very rarely are all in use. In order to use this charging station (and basically every station I've come across thus far) it requires that I download and install an app to my phone with no option to pay by card. For whatever reason, this app is entirely dependent on Google Play Services to operate, and because I'm a weird person that likes to actually own my devices, I run LineageOS on my smartphone. When I first got the car, I initially I had no…