Fuel Purchases Directly Within Apple CarPlay to Be Available This Fall

[MacRumors]

Drivers will be able to preauthorize fuel purchases directly within Apple CarPlay starting this fall (via Reuters).

The feature, first mentioned in a developer session at WWDC earlier this month, will allow CarPlay users to use apps to navigate to a pump and preauthorize a fuel purchase. Fuel companies will offer individual apps that users will need to install on their iPhone to be available in Apple CarPlay. Entering payment credentials in the iPhone app ahead of time will allow users to activate a pump and quickly purchase fuel directly from the CarPlay UI.

Gasoline firm HF Sinclair told Reuters that it plans to adopt the new CarPlay functionality. "We are excited by the idea that consumers could navigate to a Sinclair station and purchase fuel from their vehicle navigation screen," Jack Barger, the company's senior vice president of marketing said. Likewise, P97 Networks CEO Donald Frieden told Reuters that he has taken calls from oil companies that want to make their apps available in CarPlay.

Apple has opened up more app categories for CarPlay over time, such as parking, electric vehicle charging, and food ordering. Driving task apps for logging business trip mileages will also become available alongside fuel apps later this year. Fuel purchase apps will be available in Apple CarPlay when iOS 16 officially launches in the fall.

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[fenderbass146]

Now thats cool, but it needs to be super intuitive if anyone is gonna use it...like when you pull into a gas station it automatically pops up on your screen asking what type of fuel you want and all you have to do is get out and put the hose in your car.

 

[symphony]

I wish it was a single app managed by Apple using Apple Pay

But cool nonetheless

 

[mrat93]

Can’t wait to leave NJ to try this someday!

 

[murdoc2k]

Now thats cool, but it needs to be super intuitive if anyone is gonna use it...like when you pull into a gas station it automatically pops up on your screen asking what type of fuel you want and all you have to do is get out and put the hose in your car.

To build on top of this idea, it would be great to setup presets so that you can start the fueling process in 1 tap; applying any rewards cards and fuels savings cards and pre-authorizing your credit card.

 

[biggest father1]

I’m not as familiar with these double din stereos as I’d like to be. Would you think the current stereos you can buy on the market right now would offer this type of functionality since the software for CarPlay is more or less coming from the iPhone it’s connected to?

 

[orbital~debris]

Not a stretch – already using Esso's app to set a cost-limit and authorise and activate a fuel pump – but makes complete sense to work with CarPlay.

Hopefully some of any cut Apple take on this will be pumped back into pro-environment causes to help mitigate the damage fossil-fuel companies do to our planet.

 

[saulinpa]

I wonder how it associates your car with an individual pump. CarPlay won't help the process if you still need to tap your phone to the pump.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

So I’ll pre-authorize a pump and then pull up to wait for the pump to be open? Pass.

Just give me an NFC terminal instead. This is a solution in search of a problem.

 

[DogHouseDub]

How will it know which pump you are going to? You’ll probably have to swipe an NFC enabled iPhone at the pump - which kinda defeats the purpose…

 

[gaximus]

I’m not as familiar with these double din stereos as I’d like to be. Would you think the current stereos you can buy on the market right now would offer this type of functionality since the software for CarPlay is more or less coming from the iPhone it’s connected to?

There are plenty of aftermarket stereo's that support CarPlay. I've used 3 different ones, and they all work well.

 

[gaximus]

So I’ll pre-authorize a pump and then pull up to wait for the pump to be open? Pass.

Just give me an NFC terminal instead. This is a solution in search of a problem.

Maybe it just asks what pump you're at, tap the number, and start filling.

 

[IIGS User]

Make it so I can order off the Dunkin' Donuts app via Car Play using Apple Pay, then call me.....

 

[Reason077]

Great. Making it easier for gas guzzlers to fund Putin's war and contribute to climate change 😢

Not sure Apple should be proud of this, or in any case, it's not something that seems to fit with their environmentally-conscious image.

 

[bozzykid]

How will it know which pump you are going to? You’ll probably have to swipe an NFC enabled iPhone at the pump - which kinda defeats the purpose…

You enter the number of the pump after you pull up. This isn't really new as a lot of the bigger gas stations already support this. But, honestly, the ones that support this already take NFC/Apple Pay at the pump so I never see the point of this. Tapping my phone is faster than this nonsense.

 

[MacLawyer]

Does this keep IOS* a bit ahead of Android, or does Android already do this?

*Meant CarPlay.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Can’t wait to leave NJ to try this someday!

At least this way you don’t have to hand them a card

 

[saulinpa]

So I would need an app and credit card set up for every gas station that I would want to use. A big fail.

 

[grjj]

How much time is this really saving?
Assuming you use the slowest possible electronic payment method: the card swipe you save maybe 10 seconds? Using Apple Pay at the pump takes about 2s.
in my experience it takes longer for the pump to activate once I've completed payment authorization and selected a fuel grade. I don't know what the pumps do but sometimes that takes what seems like an eternity as the display resets, cycles through some self test then finally engages the pump motor to deliver fuel.

In either case you then stand (or sit if you go back in the car like I do) for about a minute for the tank to fill.

The time savings oppotunities in refueling an average passenger car just don't seem ripe for optimization. And it's not a particularly complex operation either (NJ, let people pump their own fuel). The ratio of time spent refueling to time spend driving is minuscule. 2 minutes to pull in, locate a pump, shut of engine, get out, authorize payment,open tank filler, select grade, fill tank, put nozzle away, clost tank filler. Then I drive for about 8-10 hours on that fuel. in minutes that's a 1:240 ratio fill:drive.

 

[GroundLoop]

This article should be titled "Oil Companies excited to get access to iPhone user and travel data to sell on the open market"

 

[TheCoolGuy]

Search for GPS Based Toll Collection India.. They are going to track each mile you travel and will collect toll for it. Apple is facilitating that. You will see the same exact features coming to Android just like the wallet app.

 

[anakin44011]

Did I miss something? Most pumps around me don't even accept Apple Pay where I can take my phone with me as I get out of the car, double click & Face ID while walking to the pump. Beep for quick authorization and just pump. I still use those plastic things called credit cards...partying like it is 1999.

I'm afraid this new feature might be another one of those "too many points of failure to make it worth the effort" features...sort of like setting up HomeKit sockets for my mother so she can ask Siri to turn on lamps (amazing when it works, frustrating when it doesn't). Every month I have to reset something because of Wifi issues, socket issues, etc.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Maybe it just asks what pump you're at, tap the number, and start filling.

Still not anymore efficient than Apple Pay with my wrist imo.

 

[4491275]

I wish it was a single app managed by Apple using Apple Pay

But cool nonetheless

Same. That’s what I assumed until i kept reading. I hate using cards at the pump and this would be pretty slick…especially if it utilized Apple Pay security.

 

[RalfTheDog]

...in my experience it takes longer for the pump to activate once I've completed payment authorization and selected a fuel grade. I don't know what the pumps do but sometimes that takes what seems like an eternity as the display resets, cycles through some self test then finally engages the pump motor to deliver fuel...

It takes a few moments for your credit card data to be transmitted from the skimmer to the Russian Mafia.