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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 Featured in San Francisco Examiner

greengearhead — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:03:53 +0000

Front page of the San Francisco Examiner

Green Gears Inc. Maintains PHEV Prius for Jim Woolsey former Director of the CIA

greengearhead — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:00:28 +0000

Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman of Green Gears inc. with Jim Woolsey

Jim Woolsey surprised many critics by becoming a strong advocate of Alternative fuel vehicles. He has sited importing oil as our formost national security issue. Green Gears Inc. keeps his PLug-in Hybrid Prius updated and also performs regular service on the vehicle.

Green Gears partners with AAA to educate San Francisco International Auto Show attendees

greengearhead — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:49:00 +0000

Nick Rothman of Green Gears and Pat Cadam of Green Gears and Pat’s Garage pictured at the 2008 San Francisco International Auto Show. We installed a PHEV battery live to help educate the show attendees about the fuel savings and environmental benefits of using a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). A video was shot before the show to help a larger crowd see the installation process.

Nick Rothman of Green Gears

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

LA County Water and Power Three Vehicle System Installation

greengearhead — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:32:00 +0000

Installation of three PHEV systems for Los Angeles Water and Power was filmed by Matt Kelly of The Next GearPodcast , a podcast that focuses on cutting edge transportation technology.

LA County Water and Power’s EV tech Ron assisted the Green Gears team during the installation of three PHEV systems.

This is one of the remaining 80 RAV4 EV’s in the LAWP fleet, at one time LA County Water and Power had over 340 RAV EV’s in service.

Here Pat Cadam is installing the “EV only button” wiring in a Prius. In the background is an electric Van from the 1960′s that is still maintained by LA County Water and Power.

Wisconsin Public Power

greengearhead — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:13:00 +0000

Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman of Pats Garage and Green Gears converted two vehicles to Plug-in Hybrid for Wisconsin Public Power Institute. WPPI is a large public utility that distributes power to other smaller utilities in the area.

This picture is of Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman with Kelly and Anne Rodriguez of WPPI after the installation of one of the PHEV systems.

UC Davis Plug-in

greengearhead — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:39:00 +0000

The following article was printed in the San Francisco Chronicle after UC Davis gave a press release concerning their PHEV demonstration project. Green Gears installed the pack on this Plug-in Hybrid

Prius

NORTHERN CALIFORNIAPlug-ins going for a spin
100 Northern California households to put modified Priuses through their paces
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Link to article

This photo shows the vehicle wrap as well as UCD dignataries pictured in the side view mirror.

San Diego Gas and Electric

greengearhead — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:31:00 +0000

This conversion of a Toyota Prius to Plug-in Hybrid drive was performed live during a press conference.
This install made the front page of the San Diego Tribune. Link to article.

This is the second converted vehicle.