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Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Not APPy with charging my electric car...

Both keys at the Same Time?!?

So having availed myself of an electric car I find I am not hAPPy charging it.  Not because of the time it takes but because of the multiple charging networks that all have different ways to pay and a myriad of different APPs to download.  Paying by these APPs then involves using a credit or debit card that you need to load into the APP.  But of course in order to then authorise the transaction one must leave that APP and go into the Bank's APP to authorise... this done one returns to the charger network's APP to find it has lost it's place and defaulted to the start of the authorisation process.  One then repeats the Bank authorisation step again and gets back to the same problem of leaving the charger application APP blanking all the data in it.  The problem is that to do two factor verification you're usually supposed to have two machines but as I'm on the road I only have one machine that cannot run two APPs simultaneously.  Like Gus Gorman in Superman III then I find myself flailing about trying to do the equivalent of turning both keys at the same time.  How prophetic this was of the nightmare of two factor verification whereby instead of dreaming up ever more algorithmically complex security IT companies decided instead to force us to instead battle with two keys or devices usually at the same time which is especially difficult when you only have one and when you close one APP to open the other APP the first APP loses all its data and then you have to repeat this step over and over and over and over and over and over again in the dark with a poor pubic mobile phone data connection that also causes the process to crash so you have to start over and over and over and over again... Both keys at the Same Time?!?

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Not APPy with charging my electric car...

Both keys at the Same Time?!? So having availed myself of an electric car I find I am not hAPPy charging it.  Not because of the time it tak...

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