Green Gears, Perfect Sky and City College of San Francisco Teach Hybrid Tech

Green Gears continues work on a new Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Course to be offered at the San Francisco City College Automotive Program. The First pilot two day course was held at Pat’s Garage and taught be Mr. Jack Rosebro of Perfect Sky .

Practical experience on actual vehicle components is key to learning proper hybrid maintenance techniques.

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Green Gears signs contract with San Francisco City College Automotive Program

Green Gears will provide information and training to City College of San Francisco for a Hybrid and Plug in Hybrid vehicle repair course to be offered in 2011.

Contract was signed on 4/27/10. Work will begin imediately. This project was funded by the Federal Economic Stimulus Bill through the Department of Energy and will provide training for [...]

Hawaiian Utility PHEV project

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 [...]

Green Gears helps create Green Collar jobs.

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 [...]

Green Gears teaches Eco-Driving class – featured in Forbes Magazine

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.

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Green Gears coverts a vehicle to PHEV for Center Point Energy and attends the Austin Altcar Expo

Nick Rothman of Green Gears describes the conversion process to one of the automotive teachers at Austin Community College.  Green Gears partners with community Colleges to install PHEV batteries on site at automotive training facilities in order to help technicians in training learn about the cutting edge battery technology implemented in the PHEV conversion.

V 2 Green system installation

Nick Rothman and Seth Bridges Head Engineer from V2Green work together to install a data logger and charge management system. We can monitor the vehicles in real time using a cellular communications link. This system allows utilities to control load on the electric grid by adjusting charge rate on PHEV vehicles. Eventually we will send power [...]

San Francisco County Three Vehicle Conversion

John Peters of Pat’s Garage and Green Gears is in the process of installing one of San Francisco City and County’s PHEV systems.

PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) technology adds to the efficiency [...]

Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman from Green Gears of San Francisco

Pat Cadam has led the charge toward innovations in transportation through Pat’s Garage, San Francisco’s [...]

Hybrid Fest 7/07

Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman installed a PHEV system in front of an eager crowd at Hybrid Fest 07’ in Madison Wisconsin. This vehicle is Part of the Wisconsin Public Power Inc. (WPPI) vehicle fleet. We really enjoyed the enthusiasm of the hybrid owners at the show it was an exciting event.This picture shows a bumper [...]