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Green Gears partners with Coulomb Tech, City Car Share and San Francisco to bring infrastructure to city hall
March 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
Green Gears works with George Barris on Custom Prius
March 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom commits to bring infrastructure, electric vehicles to the San Francisco Bay Area 11/20/08
November 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
Green Gears coverts a vehicle to PHEV for Center Point Energy and attends the Austin Altcar Expo
November 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 PHEV conversion.
Green Gears converts 2 vehicles for Puget Sound Energy and Enterprise
November 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Green Gears was contracted by Enterprise Rent a Car and Puget Sound Energy to bring two PHEV vehicles to the Seattle area. Both vehicles were equiped with advanced V2Green data loggers and will be part of an ongoing study managed by Idaho National Labs to test the performance of PHEVs Nick Rothman prepares the battery […]
Hymotion Receives Carb Approval
September 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Installation of Hymotion PHEV pack is in full swing now that the Hymotion PHEV system is full approved by CARB as well as crash tested. Initially customers were given experimental permits but now CARB has granted full approval of the Hymotion PHEV system. John and Richie are moving a crate into place for installation. Richie […]
Plug in 2008 Conference
July 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Plug in 2008 Conference held in San Jose was an excellent opportunity for consumers and Fleet buyers to learn more about Plug in Hybrid technologies. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News ran articles that helped inform people who missed the show. Link to San Francisco Chronicle article Link to San […]
Rob Lowe’s Prius
June 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Pat Cadam and Nick Rothman of Green Gears met with actor Rob Lowe in Santa Barbara to convert Lowe’s Prius to PHEV as well as provide driver’s training and vehicle support to maximize vehicle Mileage. Hymotion PHEV units are currently available for both individuals and fleets.
UC Davis Vehicle conversions
May 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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.
