Green Gears works with Rickshaw Bags

Photo by Daniel Furon

Green Gears commissioned these custom color messenger bags from 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. Contact us to buy your own special green [...]

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Green Gears Joins City College to Educate Automotive Technicians

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Green Gears partners with Coulomb Tech, City Car Share and San Francisco to bring infrastructure to city hall

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

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Green Gears trains highschool students in Maui and installs 6 PHEV systems – featured in Hawaii Newspapers

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 six vehicles will be used by local electric utilities , universities and government offices. The following pictures were [...]

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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 [...]

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