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Right, you can enter the black market, but that's a different discussion with different curves (and potential costs) :). Under your description anything that isn't "free" (which is also a different discussion) is "rationing" because any value above zero will reduce consumption. Although what...

The distinction b/w the situation you're describing and what is happening is that the ration card is a supply constraint, not a demand constraint. You can't purchase more than the card lets you regardless of your willingness to pay (i.e. demand). Raising price limits demand. Ration cards limit...

It would be better if, when an OTA was pending, it would proactively charge the 12V battery to 80% (or whatever the target is supposed to be). The UX around this is terrible. They indicate in the success criteria a value that users can't observe (w/o special hardware) and can't directly...

Encouraging and limiting are not the same word because they mean different things. Making someone pay for the resources they are consuming is how the market should function. When you are charging at 100+kW, the marginal cost of the time value you consume by occupying space is so far outweighed...

When there are DCFC every 50 miles, that might make sense. We don't enjoy that version of reality everywhere yet. Personally, I think it would be better if we addressed this from a user education and encouragement perspective instead of via actual rationing ;). But when I have to make the jump...

Sorry, but it is not rationing. You are simply being charged a per kWh + time fee instead of straight kWh. You are not being blocked from consuming, only being encouraged to stop consuming.

Congestion fees that work like this are a way for operators to capture that lost revenue and provide an incentive for people to engage in better behaviors. Charging your car over 80% is slow and potentially harmful. There are times when it is necessary, but that is an infrastructure problem...

Exclusive access to a single shared resource isn't necessarily only on legacy systems :). The e.g. I gave is still how Windows works, for good reason. If you allow other apps to mix audio streams in the renderer or driver, you can't do bit perfect. That's just one e.g. of a single shared...

I had lots of BT/BTLE issues with the P7P when it launched. Google said out loud that it was their fault in the future patch notes. Those went away after a couple months worth of patches. I haven't had any BT/BTLE issues with anything but FP on A14 (P7P or P8P). If Ford is using supported...

I don't know who's fault it is, we don't have access to the data that would make it possible to determine that. I suspect there's some blame to be shared b/w both parties. It could be that Ford is doing something that should be supported, and it just doesn't work reliably. It's very rare that...

Yep. Unrestricted. I changed it to one of the other settings and exited out, then came back in and changed it back to Unrestricted. FordPass still seems to get dehydrated if I haven't opened it or driven the car for longer than a day, but for the most part it seems to be working better now. I...

It's weird. After messing with it a bit, it looks like the issue might be that FordPass is getting scavenged to save battery by A14. When I launch FP as I approached the car (what I would do on A13), it would be in a deep sleep state (like a cold launch), and then generally connect OK. Every so...

Applied the November Update to my P8P, and now it's as bad as it ever was with A13 and the P7P...

PAAK has been light years better with P8P for me. I didn't use the P7P with A14 long so I can't comment much there. It was better-ish, but that might have been unrelated. Many times with P7P + A13, I had to open FP (even though it was running) and wait for it to connect. Then it work fine at...

I'm roughly in the same ballpark, although I mostly just toggle BT to get it to work. Usually not patient enough to do it outside the car, so I use the door code if PAAK doesn't work and figure it out after getting in the car. I don't count on walk-away lock when I'm not home, it's too...

Protected means we as a society have agreed that we don't need to figure out who's sense of morality applies. It's can be hard to apply the mkhuffman's craps given metric more broadly. This is a tough one, and somewhat relevant to how we ended up here. I totally agree that people who are...

FWIW, the estimate FordPass provides me is not useful. It's often pessimistic by several hours. No idea why. They recently updated the app to include the charge rate, so maybe it will get better. I haven't had a chance to really have a look at this yet. All that said, even if was accurate when...

I believe the only point that I made was that "need" is hard to categorize. How is that selfish? If you agree that anything under 100% can be OK, then we agree. That didn't seem to be what you were saying before. Totally on-board that letting the car sit idle (i.e. not charging) for long...

Having a disability is a protected class. It's much worse to park in a disabled spot than to inconvenience someone. They are both selfish, but one of these things is beyond selfish. I really struggle with what you're saying here. Fueling an ICE car is a 10-15 min thing. Fueling a EV can take...

"Need" is a tricky criteria here. How do we define if person A's definition of need is greater than person B's? You have personal criteria defined by what you want to do, but no visibility into the goals and criteria of another person. If charging to 100% means person A saves a massive amount...