[Mizoguchi]

As part of the settlement with the US over the emissions scandal, Volkswagen agreed to invest in developing Electrify America.

What they did was to subcontract with multiple vendors who could not agree on integrating their sloppy systems, so we ended up with unreliable EV charging stations running on different hardware and software managed by multiple companies with complete lack of oversight by the federal government who now wants to throw another $100M at it so the money can be stolen again.