A free Public Charge Station

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Green Gears now offers customers and individuals a place to recharge for free. Were are in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco

Green Gears signs contract with San Francisco City College Automotive Program

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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 [...]

Green Gears Teams with Luminalt Solar at San Francisco Green Fest

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Brendan Cadam and Joe Hall of Green Gears explain the benefits of Plug-in Hybrid electric vehicles to attendees of the 2010 San Francisco Green Fest.

Green Gears trade show wrap up 09

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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

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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

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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 [...]

UC Davis Vehicle conversions

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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

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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 [...]

Green Gears Vehicle Build Up

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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

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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.