Green Gears » Blog http://greengears.net Just another WordPress site Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:50:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Green Gears, ECOtality, and the DOE team to instrument SCAQMD Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrids http://greengears.net/blog/green-gears-quantum-and-ecotality-team-to-build-ford-escape-plug-in-hybrids/ http://greengears.net/blog/green-gears-quantum-and-ecotality-team-to-build-ford-escape-plug-in-hybrids/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:46:13 +0000 Nick http://greengears.net/?p=908 Green Gears, ECOtality, and the Department of Energy collaborated on a vehicle project with South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) . The project consists of 21 Ford Escape hybrid vehicles owned by SCAQMD converted to Plug-in Hybrid drive by Quantum.  ECOtality and Green Gears collaborated on the installation of cellular data loggers to record vehicle fuel economy through funding from the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity contract from the Department of Energy. The vehicles will be operated in the LA area by SCAQMD. A solar parking area provides energy to the vehicles that get exceptional fuel mileage by combining battery power and gasoline power. The cellular data loggers will record fuel consumption as well as electric energy consumption from the solar array to give an accurate picture of how a larger fleet of similar vehicles could affect air quality in the LA area. Pat Cadam, Nick Rothman of GreenGears Jeremy Diez and Nick Fengler of Ecotality The front entrance od SCAQMD in Diamondbar , CA DSC00895 (Medium) DSC00894 (Medium) DSC00887 (Medium) Lisa Mirisola of SCAQMD and Nick Rothman of Green Gears stand in front of some of the advanced vehicles in the SCAQMD test fleet DSC00879 (Medium) Jeremy Diez of Ecotality 12 kwhr battery system in the back of an Escape Hybrid with Cellular data logger installed DSC00922 (Medium) DSC00864 (Medium) DSC00883 (Medium)

]]> http://greengears.net/blog/green-gears-quantum-and-ecotality-team-to-build-ford-escape-plug-in-hybrids/feed/ 0 Felix Kramer gets his PHEV http://greengears.net/blog/felix-kramer-gets-his-phev/ http://greengears.net/blog/felix-kramer-gets-his-phev/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:36:29 +0000 Nick http://greengears.net/?p=778 Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman attended the celebration to commemorate the delivery of Cal-Cars founder Felix Kramers Chevy Volt

Pictured from left to right:

Ron Gremban – Technincal lead Cal-Cars, Andy Frank Professor UCDavis, Pat Cadam Founder of Pat’s Garage and Green Gears, Felix Kramer Founder Cal Cars, Nick Rothman Partner Green Gears

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http://www.greendriveexpo.com/

Click bellow to see a video review of the show from EVTALK.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UouARxsocnU&feature=player_embedded

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