Mexico has suffered from intense heat during the last weeks, which will persist for the next few days, exceeding 30 degrees Celsius in the 32 entities of the country, as reported this Monday, June 19, by the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
Faced with the ’embarrassment’ and the intense sun to which many of us are not accustomed, the fans and fans their sales have increased. For their part, transport and vehicles operate with the windows open or the air conditioning on.
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By contrast, Customers of the private transportation service Uber have started complaining about ‘extra charges’ for asking drivers to turn on the air conditioning.
Extra charges are part of ‘Uber Comfort’
Faced with the accusations, the transport company pointed out that these extra charges are part of its new category called ‘Uber Comfort‘. This offers newer, roomier cars with four temperature settings for the unit.
This service has an additional cost of between 20% and 40% over the traditional rate; It is modified depending on the comforts that the client chooses. In this sense, if bringing the window open is not enough for you, you would pay more to request the air conditioning.
At the moment, the new category of ‘Uber Comfort’ is available in 67 cities and municipalities in the country, including CDMX, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Torreón, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey and Toluca.
The National Water Commission (Conagua) has highlighted that the entities of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí, in addition to Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán “could exceed 45 degrees of maximum temperature” this week.
With temperatures of 40 to 45 degrees will be the entities of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca and Chiapas.
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