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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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Shai Agassi of Project Better Place, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Robert Kennedy Jr. talk after a press conference at San Francisco city hall. Pats Garage/ Green Gears was mentioned as one of the contributors towards making San Francisco the leader in adoption of Electric vehicles and reduction of CO2 emissions.San Francisco City and county will [...]
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Brendan Cadam, a new member of the Green Gears team is helping perform an update on the Cal-Cars vehicle. For more information on Cal-Cars the California cars initiative please go to Cal-Cars
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Nick Rothman pictured installing a Hymotion Version 2 battery system in a Toyota Prius for University California Davis.
Nick Rothman lead technician of Green Gears and Jim Strong the Service Manager of A123 systems Hymotion division work together on the installation of version 2 PHEV battery systems for UC Davis.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the San Francisco has added 3 PHEVs to the vehicle fleet. The Mayor made a very compelling speech about the importance of switching to electricity as an alternative to gasoline for social, economic and environmental reasons.
Pat Cadam and Gavin Newsom pose for a photo in front of one of the three vehicles [...]
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These photos show the Pat’s Garage and Green Gears official PHEV Prius. This vehicle goes with us on all local installation jobs and trade shows.
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Here is a picture of Nick Rothman working on the Green Gears PHEV pack at Pat’s Garage in San Francisco.Freddy Ortanez a tech at Pat’s Garage and Lola the shop dog get ready to install a PHEV system.
Pat Cadam of Pat’s Garage and Green Gears (pictured right) and Lizzy Ames discuss PHEV pack.
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Here a high voltage connection being made inside the Toyota battery. The precharge resistor, current sensor and contactors are visible. Proper saftey procedures are important. The oarange gloves are a precaution, no voltage is present at these connections.
This photo shows the graphics applied to differentiate this PHEV Prius from the other Prius in the CVPS fleet.
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