Cabify and Easy Taxi partner up to face the fuel shortage in Mexico
Source：Contexto MX
From：Taiwan Trade Center Mexico
Update Time：2019/02/20
The fuel shortage is a well-known strategy from Mexico´s current President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in order to fight fuel thieves. PEMEX the Mexican state-run oil company, shut down several ducts and pipelines in order to identify leaks.
As a result, people across the country have been struggling to find fuel to move around. Not only regular citizens but taxi drivers, buses, food suppliers and basically, everyone who requires a car to commute have seen their daily activities affected by the initiative.
For this reason, the Spanish app Cabify and Brazilian EasyTaxi have partnered up to help people during these times. The new partnership consists of a new category within Cabify´s app. It will make EasyTaxi vehicles available to the users, so they can request less expensive car sharing services.
“Economy”, the on-demand transport startups newest category differs from Cabify´s existing category “Lite” in different ways:
The “Lite” modality allows users to request private drivers in newer vehicle models, as well as paying in different ways: cash, PayPal or card; The “Economy” modality will allow users to access a cash-only, more affordable service.
This new modality is now available in cities such as: Mexico City, Puebla, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Querétaro and Mérida.
Source：contexto.uanl.mx/