Amber knew. AAMI didn't.

4:40am alarm. Snooze for 5 min. Scramble to get out the door by 5:20am — Erin to the airport. She's off to Airlie Beach for a week, back to her old stomping ground.

Last night I told the Amber Electric app "Ready-By 90% by 5am" — pick the cheapest, greenest five-minute slots overnight and have the Tesla ready when I am. The Full Self-Driving (Supervised) confirmation email landed at 4:45 — partly for the barely-awake drive ahead, partly to play with on the NSW road trip in two weeks. By 4:48 the Tesla was sitting at 89% and ticking up to the target. No thinking required from me.

Bolte Bridge came up lit purple as we crossed the Westgate — twin pylons against a still-dark sky. Beautiful, and I have no idea what cause it was for. Anyone know what was on?

Erin onto her flight. Tesla back over the bridges, FSD doing most of the driving, me mostly trying to wake up.

Then AAMI's safety-scoring app pinged me on the way home: "severe acceleration" on Heatherton Rd (38 km/h in 6.8 seconds — gentle by EV standards), and a hard cornering flag near Clematis Park. That one was on me — I'd just kicked FSD off and given Tesla feedback that it creeps around the bends too cautiously, testing the patience of every driver behind. But the tip underneath was the part that made me laugh: "Accelerating too harshly is not just dangerous — it can eat up your petrol."

Petrol. In the Tesla. The car's own readout had the return leg at 129.9 Wh/km — and the full airport round trip averaging 121.8. About as efficient as I've ever driven it. Bill for the round trip: about $2 of electricity. Same drive in a petrol car: closer to $25. Whatever I was wasting, it wasn't petrol.

At 4:45 this morning, Amber knew the car was an EV and scheduled it onto cheap overnight renewables. Five hours later, AAMI was scolding me for wasting petrol.

One app grew up understanding EVs. The other is still set to 2010.

What's the most ICE-stuck thing your apps still tell you?