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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by akouri on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:30PM (#38713903)
Tap & Pay still requires you to fiddle with a station and slows you down. If you are plugging in at home (which is our target market), the fewer interactions needed the better. Imagine every time you get home you need to take your wallet out, tap the machine, wait for some 3rd party api to talk to the charger in the dimly lit basement, and then and only then you can leave. This is like 30 seconds of your day wasted.

Plus, ultimately we want to make charging as cheap as possible and having to pay the $.30 interchange fee each time a user plugs in would add a ton of overhead to our cost model.

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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by alibarber on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:47PM (#38714683)
It takes something like half of a second for my Apple Pay Amex/Visa to let me through the barrier in the London Underground, and the complexity they have to deal with for fare calculations is quite something too.
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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by akouri on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:44PM (#38716771)
This is true. Apple Pay has been something we're keen on adding
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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by wh0knows on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:05PM (#38716877)
The fare isn’t calculated on the spot though, a base amount is authorized and then only charged later. Not that the plug needs to figure that out immediately but it’s worth noting.
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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by namdnay on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:41PM (#38713997)
Surely the interchange fee can be negotiated for volume? Or even mandated by law. When I tap my credit card to buy a 1$ bus ticket I doubt the interchange is keeping 30 cents?
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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by ska on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:07PM (#38714272)
There are transit systems that have made this work smoothly, you just walk up to a gate, tap your card as you walk through, so I can't imagine the barrier is technological unachievable. Seems like similar frequency and $.
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