Yeah I think it’s mainly North America (us?) that’s the problem.

However the standards process worked, it created poor choices and was not effective. Twice. At least we’re finally coalescing on a de facto standard, and NACS is better than the previous two choices

But yeah the app situation is bad. While I appreciated using chargers that use my cars internal ID, and just worked, that clearly doesn’t scale. Now that we’re trying to scale out to general use so we really need credit card readers instead of a plethora of apps.

Not requiring an app was one of the prerequisites for federal incentive money, but the short-sighted administration retracted that