a straight-line drop...should be automated

Aka a straight-line (inception towards death) drop (life); self (autos) thinking (matos) by manual free will of choice.

energy

Aka within (en) work (ergos). Others cannot take energy from one unless one ignores being within energy...ignorance gives self away manually to another, hence a shirking of response-ability (free will of choice).

smoothing the demand curve

If being implies want (life) within need (inception towards death), then ignorance smooths the demand curve of being. One needs to resist wanted supply...not demand from one another.

people already purchased the EV (electric vehicle)

To elect implies choosing; vehicle implies transmitting...ones consent to any suggestion by another transmits (vehicle) ones choice (electric) to a chosen one for the purchase price of selling self out.

compliance isn't requested...it's automated

Nature moving all perceivable through each beings perception implies an automated process...consenting to any suggestion by another implies complying to a request manually.