Chevron and Visa partner to bring mobile payment to California's gas pumps
California's motorists will be able to pay for their fuel at the pump using mobile phones, after Visa and Chevron have partnered to install the first mobile payment devices in outdoor gas pumps in the state.
More than 20 Chevron gas stations around San Francisco and Silicon Valley will accept mobile payments such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or Google Android´s Pay at the gas pump, reported CNET.
"Consumers will begin to see transformational ways of making payments that are more convenient and more secure," Jim McCarthy, Visa's executive vice president of innovation and strategic partnerships, was quoted by CNET. "We, like Chevron, see mobile as the future."
Chevron and Visa hope to set themselves at the head of what they consider a key future trend - mobile payments - especially now that the three major tech companies in the world (Apple, Google and Samsung) have fully entered the business.
“We'll get some great learnings from this. Things take awhile to mature in the payments space, so I would say we're in early innings,” added McCarthy.
