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Green Gears has partnered with Rickshaw Bagworks, another local San Francisco Dogpatch neighborhood business. This commemorative built to order Zero bag is the result of a “less is more” product development combining minimalist design and localized sourcing and wasteless manufacturing.
Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman of Green Gears traveled to Hawaii to convert Toyota Prius vehicles to Plug-in Electric Hybrids. Below Technicians and Engineers from Hawaiian Electric Company receive training on operating and maintaining PHEV battery systems in Honolulu Hawaii.
Pat Cadam of Green Gears installs a new Hymotion battery pack in a Toyota Prius at Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT).
Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman test a coulomb charge station installed in front of the offices of Maui Electric Company in Maui Hawaii. The wind turbine pictured at the right powers the charge station.
Victor Reyes director of the department of Environment of the County of Maui and Pat Cadam at Maui Highschool with the PHEV driven by the Mayor of Maui following completion of system update. A technical training session was held with shop teachers and students covering the basics of a PHEV conversion.
Pat Cadam , Nick Rothman and Jim Francfort of Idaho National Labs Stand in front of a PHEV Prius that was repaired on sight at Maui Electric Company.
Pat Cadam and Kelvin Kohatsu of Hawaiian Electric Light Company speak before work begins on two Prius Vehicles from the HELCO fleet to be converted to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Technicians from Rannikks Auto Specialists of Hilo Hawaii assisted in conversion of the two vehicles for HELCO of Hilo Hawaii
Pat Cadam of Green Gears stands with Gary Krysztopik and Craig Egan the San Antonio Texas Dealer/installer of Hymotion PHEV systems.
Pat Cadam of Green Gears and Marguerite Jones of Austin Energy stand in front of a Toyota Prius converted to PHEV by Green Gears for use in the Austin Energy vehicle fleet Steven Strong is an early solar designer who made headlines in the 70’s when he added solar panels to the White House under Jimmy Carter and more recently to Pac Bell park here in San Francisco. Steven has been a force in the solar industry from the begining. Green Gears helped Steve demonstrate how vehicles can interact with solar for the filmimg of a TV segment by Paul Steinbroner called Energy Rush TV. Steven Strong and Paul Steinbroner prepare for filming to begin
Green Gears Prius connected to solar carport in Vacaville, CA
Filming begins
California Department of General Services will convert about 70 Toyota Prius vehicles to PHEV. The procurement of over 70 PHEVs is the largest fleet conversion to date. Green Gears along with two other California auto shops will convert the fleet of Hybrid vehicles to PHEV in November 09.
One of the original creators of email for mobile phones Satish Dharmaraj contracted renown car builder George Barris to create the most distinctive and modern Hybrid that money can buy. The finished vehicle is a show stopper. It also has in car wireless internet for surfing the web while you are driving around town. .
Green Gears and City College of San Francisco will be colaborating on a federally funded education outreach program. The Project which is funded by a Federal stimulous package grant was the only proposal in the San Francisco Bay Area to recieve approval and funding. Thousands of proposals were reviewed and the 2 plus billion dollars of funding was divied up among a handful of inovative engineering, manufactoring and educational institutions. The Educational program designed by Green Gears and City College of San Francisco promisses to give automotive tech students an education based on real world experience, practices and polocies concerning hybrid and plug-in hybrid maintenance. As an inovator in Plug-in hybrid repair and conversion Green Gears is in a unique position to be able to offer students a practical hands on experience. Green Gears was an exhibitor in the following trade shows. San Francisco Haight Street Fair, Hybridfest – Green drive expo in Madison Wisconsin 7/09, Plug-in 09 in Long Beach CA from 8/o9. Alt Car expo in Santa Monica 10/09. Front page of the San Francisco Examiner
Nick Rothman of Green Gears delivers a finished PHEV to Sonoma county fleet drivers. This is one of many vehicles to be convereted by Green Gears for Sonoma County. A Television crew from the German equivalent of PBS filmed Brendan Cadam of Green Gears installing a Lithium battery system into a Toyota Prius. The television segment will be uploaded to this sight when available.
Green Gears presents hands on lectures on PHEV technology. Schools that have participated include Austin Community College, Maui High school and San Diego Community College. Green Gears has also contributed to the ciriculum of San Francisco City College.  Nick Rothman describes the Hymotion battery system to Automotive Technology teachers at Austin Community College One of the more curious students at ACC sticks around to ask more questions about Hybrid Vehicle technology after the class ends  A Maui High school instructor asks Brendan Cadam a question about PHEV Technology
San Francisco Chronicle Article Below
San Francisco Examiner article Below
 Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman of Green Gears inc. with Jim Woolsey Jim Woolsey surprised many critics by becoming a strong advocate of Alternative fuel vehicles. He has sited importing oil as our formost national security issue. Green Gears Inc. keeps his PLug-in Hybrid Prius updated and also performs regular service on the vehicle. Green Gears worked to install front mounted charge ports and facilitated the partnership between Coulomb Tech and the City of San Francisco. This link goes to an article in Eco Geek that describes the project in greater detail.  San Francisco Major Gavin Newsom announces the introduction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in front of city hall  Coulomb Tech unveils the Charge Point Network in San Francisco. Green Gears was contracted to do a PHEV conversion for renown car builder George Barris. The project was featured in a Japanese car magazine and generated significant interest from auto manufactures’ buying agents who want to buy Hymotion PHEV units for testing purposes.  Japanese magazine "Prius"  PHEV unit pictured in lower right.  Vehicle details have changed slightly since this photo  Brendan Cadam of Green Gears installs battery system hardware  Nick Rothman does under dash wiring on the highly modified Toyota Prius The following article printed in the December 08′ issue of Forbes Magazine to learn more about what Green Gears is doing to educate divers, save fuel and reduce carbon emissions. Click here to see complete article text.
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Pat Cadam, Nick Rothman and Brendan Cadam of Green Gears traveled to Oahu and Maui to convert 6 hybrid vehicles to PHEV drivetrain and train high school automotive technicians in training how to work with advanced battery systems. The program was funded by Idaho National Labs and is part of a research project involving over 100 PHEV vehicles. The vehicles are monitored using V2Green cellular data loggers also installed and calibrated by Green Gears.  Nick Rothman of Green Gears
Mayor Charmaine Tavares and Nick Rothman after press conference and announcement of PHEV vehicles introduction to the Island of Maui
 Brendan Cadam works as Nick Rothman and Pat Cadam lecture Maui high school automotive technicians in training.
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