consumers , a contactless payment card is absolutely fine . We need to make sure that as a chargepoint operator , you ' re offering multiple payments makes it so much easier for the consumer . And a nice app , an app that ' s great to use .
We also allow the chargepoint operators to set that tariff . So the driver knows precisely what they ' re paying for .
HOW WILL PAYMENTS LOOK WHEN CARS CAN DO THIS FOR THEIR DRIVERS ?
I think it ’ s incredibly exciting . This is where something like payments , which is an invisible process that you really think about , becomes very physical and very real . I remember the first time I saw a Tesla being charged and the driver simply plugged the Tesla in . Now how that works behind the scenes is the vehicle uses an individual identifier .
So the charger and the vehicle can talk to each other in a bidirectional way . They called it ISO 15118 — a bidirectional data communication protocol . But why it ' s exciting to us as consumers is it means that you don ' t have to do anything , you know the car is going to consume the energy that it needs .
You know how much it ' s going to cost you and you will receive one bill directly or to your employer to pay for it . So there ' s no faffing involved . There ' s no apps or RFID , or anything that you need a whole swathe of in our country or across the continent . We will see this become a more streamlined process .
SO , HOW DID PAYTHRU MOBILITY COME ABOUT ?
I ' m so proud to be part of PayThru . I came across them about a year ago . They ' ve branched out into the EV charging space and , before that , they were around for 14 years as a payment service provider . I like to think of this as a gateway to payments : you use us to make sure that money is sent to the right place , whether that ' s an energy company , the charge point operator itself , or between you as consumers . It ' s all done seamlessly , completely behind the scenes .
We weren ' t born out of anything else . That ' s exactly what we ' re here to do . So we ' re working with global partners to work out how we can wrap in things with our payments to multimodal mobility . And that ' s where the excitement really comes for me as a car driver , I know that people will want to utilise different modes of travel .