Green Commuter Successfully Launches the First All-Electric Vanpool Service in the U.S. Using Tesla Model X, 7 Passenger SUVs

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Tesla–Green Commuter has started vanpool operations in Los Angeles utilizing
all-electric 7-passenger SUVs. Green Commuter’s business model is to
rent its fleet of zero emission vehicles for vanpool and car sharing.
With its proprietary technology, Green Commuter leases its fleet of
Tesla Model X vehicles to vanpoolers during commuting hours and to car
share users or companies for fleet replacement, the rest of the time.
Currently, there are more than 3,000 organized vanpools in the Southern
California area consisting mainly of low- and mid-income workers living
in disadvantaged communities who commute on average 94 miles roundtrip.

“With our triple bottom line approach, we have found that ridesharing to
and from work in EVs during peak traffic hours and repurposing the EVs
as car share vehicles the rest of the time, brings tremendous benefits
in terms of reduced traffic, improved air quality, all while providing
mobility and commuting savings to its users,” said Gustavo Occhiuzzo,
CEO of Green Commuter.

The first all-electric vanpool commute has an origin point in Palmdale,
a disadvantaged community, and destination in Valencia, an 86-mile round
trip daily commute. The vanpool is comprised of workers from a
manufacturing company. Most of the new vanpoolers previously drove to
the worksite in Single Occupancy Vehicles.

“Green Commuter is about democratizing the electric vehicle and making
it affordable to the broad population. With Green Commuter’s model, even
minimum wage earners can now drive a zero emission vehicle to work every
day while saving money,” said Gustavo Occhiuzzo.

Green Commuter will deploy an additional 10 Tesla Model X vehicles in
the spring in Los Angeles and plans to expand the fleet to 50-80 units
by the end of the year.

About Green Commuter

Green Commuter is a certified B Corp with a mission to decrease the cost
of commuting, help alleviate traffic and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. The efficiency and utilization of its zero emission vehicles
dramatically increases the benefits to its clients, reduces traffic and
improves air quality. www.greencommuter.org

Contacts

Green Commuter
Bart Sidles
bsidles@greencommuter.org