Jaguar's New In-Car Fuel PaymentsJust when you may have thought the payments sector of fintech was running out of innovation (we weren’t by the way) here comes a really cool new app. Jaguar and Shell Oil are teaming up to let you use Apple Pay or PayPal to pay for your gas fill up. Hello thought leaders, one more step in that process please? A robot to get OUT of the car and pump gas in the cold and rain.

Jaguar’s infotainment touchscreen display will soon be able to have a Shell Oil app installed that will allow drivers to pay for a gas fill up. Using PayPal or Apple Pay initially the driver can select how much gas they want, pre-pay the fuel and even get a receipt on the display itself while emailing you a copy. Starts in the UK first, but goes worldwide soon. Pretty cool idea with (I’m sure) more innovation to come. (Bill Taylor/CEO) In a first for in-car convenience features, Jaguar is teaming up with Shell to launch a new payment feature that lets you use Apple Pay or PayPal (with Android Pay coming later on) to easily pay for gas right within their vehicles at the pumps. The feature is coming to the UK first, but will roll out around the world after that.

The feature requires installation of the Shell app to make the payments possible, but it’ll show up on your Jaguar’s in-car infotainment touchscreen display once installed, You can then pay using either your PayPal or Apple Pay credentials as mentioned, and all of this is available as of Wednesday in the UK – provided you’ve got a new model Jaguar XE, XF and F-PACE car.

The app lets the driver select how much gas they want, then pre-pay for their fuel. It also shows a receipt of the payment on the display itself, and forwards along a copy to your email address."

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