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Have an E-ZPass? You can use it to pay for gas in Rhode Island soon
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Have an E-ZPass? You will soon be able to use it to pay for gas on your phone in Rhode Island.
PayByCar, which the program that allows you to pay for gas on your phone using E-ZPass, announced Tuesday it will be expanding into several states. The expansion will take place over the next two years.
The initiative has been active in Massachusetts since 2022, with more than 20 gas stations across the state participating.
Here’s what to know about the program’s expansion into the Ocean State.
How to pay for gas and parking with your E-ZPass
PayByCar is a mobile payment system that allows you to pay for gas or parking using your E-ZPass.
To use it, enrollment is available on the PayByCar website. Payment is charged to the card linked to the user’s E-ZPass account.
Once you have an active account, you can use it at any participating location. When arriving at a location, you will receive a text to utilize the touchfree payment system. Once completed, a receipt will be sent to your phone.
It eliminated putting in a pin numbers and digging around for a credit or debit card. E-ZPass says it cuts the time of a transaction in half.
“The drivers of 55M vehicles with E-ZPass tags already know how seamless paying for tolls is. We are determined to bring that simplicity to all the other payments made on the go,” said Kevin Condon, Founder and CEO at PayByCar, Inc in a press release. “We are also drivers so we know how frustrating it can be downloading multiple apps and wallets and then searching for them when you need to make a quick purchase, managing paper receipts, losing tickets in parking garages, or risking identity theft from transactions where card skimming results in millions of dollars in losses each year.”
Where can you use your E-ZPass to pay for gas in Rhode Island?
The PayByCar EZPass system will be expanded across the United States in the next two years, the company said. The exact launch date in Rhode Island is not yet known.
What other states is E-ZPass expanding PayByCar to?
Within the next two years, E-ZPass is looking to bring PayByCar to Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, and Georgia.