re: Tesla sued over non-performance for promised free charging for life.

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Sorry I struck a nerve. I am certain you and all other EV owners are smarter than the average smart thermostat owners and read all your EUA's and every page of every contract.

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Reread my post you replied to, what nerve do you think you struck?

I simply pointed out a fact that you failed to mention that rendered your entire post irrelevant.

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My assertion (I prefer the word speculation) that this is a future possibility is based on trends, namely increased demands placed on electric power grids, from EV's, population growth, etc., as well as restrictions on reliable generation (NG fired) in favor of less reliable wind and solar power.

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That's a lot of words when you could have just said you just completely made something up and ran with it. Again, you'll claim you struck some nerve, but also again, that's just fact.

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2. Picture a scenario in the near-future. A power system operator is experiencing high power demand, enough that it's eating into his system reserves, enough to where his options on curbing demand to prevent a system collapse are:
a) rolling brown- or black-outs, or
b) send a command to car chargers to roll back temporarily and/or to smart thermostats to extend their off-times or raise their temperature setting, again temporarily.

From a power system operator, which is the least bad option? Faced with such an emergency, your opt-in or opt-out may be irrelevant. Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.

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If your completely made up hypothetical were to happen, that would go for literally anything that uses electricity.