@joeblogs noted that he wasn’t charged for a recent session intended to be paid with a credit card.
For the I session noted above (text message delayed by days), it took me a few tries to find a charger at that location that worked (even though the screens looked like everything was functional).
Third one I tried worked, but there was a message on the screen that the current session was complimentary (from EA).
I don’t remember the exact message, but I inferred that they weren’t able to communicate with their payment system, so they just comped the charge.
Total in my charging history shows $0.00.
Looking through the rest, out of the 17 total EA sessions, the most recent 6 all show $0.00.
August 14 and prior, the remaining 11 all show a dollar amount, presumably what was billed to Audi… or at least the retail value.
(Or maybe they just stopped showing the dollar amount at some point, since it’s confusing when you think it’s free.)