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Green Gears signs contract with San Francisco City College Automotive Program

greengearhead — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:06:40 +0000

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 individuals seeking employment in the Green Tech industry. The proposal to educate technicians on advanced electric vehicle technology drafted by San Francisco City College, De Anza Community College and Green Gears was the only education proposal to receive funding from the DOE and Economic Stimulus Bill in the state of California.

Green Gears trade show wrap up 09.

greengearhead — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:04:26 +0000

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.

Green Gears works with George Barris on Custom Prius

greengearhead — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:39:28 +0000

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

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom commits to bring infrastructure, electric vehicles to the San Francisco Bay Area 11/20/08

greengearhead — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:55:00 +0000

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 partner with Project Better Place and Coulomb technologies to build out the EV charging infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nick Rothman and Robert Kennedy Jr.

Pat Cadam discusses the implications of the announcement with Bob Hayden of the San Francisco Department of Environment.

Cal-Cars Update

greengearhead — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:13:00 +0000

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

UC Davis Vehicle conversions

greengearhead — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:57:00 +0000

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.

San Francisco Press Conference

greengearhead — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:01:00 +0000

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 converted to PHEV by Green Gears and Pat’s Garage.

Nick Rothman talks with Jack Broadbent the Executive Officer of the Bay Area Air Quality Managment District.

Installation of the PHEV systems in two of three vehicles

Green Gears Vehicle Build Up

greengearhead — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:30:00 +0000

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.

Green Gears Pack Update

greengearhead — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:44:00 +0000

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.

Central Vermont Public Service PHEV installation

greengearhead — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:36:00 +0000

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.