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Green Gears attends Plug-in 2010

greengearhead — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:13:21 +0000

Green Gears has exhibited at the Plug-in Conference since its inception in 2008. The Plug-in conference and trade show has been one of the leading venues for industry and manufacturers to meet and create new ventures and ideas.

http://www.plugin2010.com/

Pat Cadam and Eric Powers of Green Drive Expo in front of Chevy Volt at Plug-in 2010

This photo is from a San Francisco Chronicle article that ran following Plug-in 2008.

Green Gears at Hybridfest

greengearhead — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:56 +0000

Pat Cadam of Green Gears attended Hybridfest in Madison Wisconsin on 7/17/10. This will be our 5th time at Hybridfest, a great show for Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicle drivers. This article was written about the show. Pat Cadam of Green Gears was interviewed and quoted in the article.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/article_8969532e-c65b-5d83-a9d5-b95adfd28ea9.html

www.greendriveexpo.com

Pat Cadam of Green Gears and Chelsea Sexton of “Who Killed The Electric Car”

A GM EV1 restored by Glen Bower and University of Wisconsin

Pat Cadam and John Dolan of Smart Motors. Madison’s Hymotion Plug in conversion dealer. Smart Motors is a 100 year old dealership and pillar of the community in Madison.

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

greengearhead — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:35:06 +0000

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.

A Toyota Prius High Voltage battery is disassembled and explained.

Green Gears attends Altcar Austin 10

greengearhead — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:54:26 +0000

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

Green Gears works on largest fleet conversion project to date.

greengearhead — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:58:39 +0000

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.

Photo by Daniel Furon

Green Gears Converts Sonoma County Fleet

greengearhead — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:55:35 +0000

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.

Green Gears Featured in San Francisco Newspapers 2008 wrap up

greengearhead — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:45:13 +0000

San Francisco Chronicle Article Below

San Francisco Examiner article Below

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

greengearhead — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:55:41 +0000

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 teaches Eco-Driving class – featured in Forbes Magazine

greengearhead — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:03:00 +0000

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.

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

greengearhead — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:40:00 +0000

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 printed in the Hawaii Star Bulletin newspaper.

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.
Click here to see the complete Star Bulliten Article.

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

Mayor Charmaine Tavares, Pat Cadam and Jim Frankfort of Idaho National Lab

Brendan Cadam works as Nick Rothman and Pat Cadam lecture Maui high school automotive technicians in training.