Matt Kelly

Pat Cadam is owner of Pat's Garage , an independent auto repair shop located in San Francisco's SOMA district. He and his mechanics work primarily on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight . He's also one of the few "green" auto repair shops in the Bay Area. Not only that, but Pat and his team are part of the A123 Systems Hymotion team , doing all the conversions of hybrids to plug in electric vehicles, for companies like Google.org , as part of their ReChargeIT initiative, (our coverage of the story is here ) Wisconsin Public Power , and others .