The Wired
Articles, profiles, and written coverage of Reverend Gadget’s work and impact.
LA WEEKLY COVER STORY BY JUDITH LEWIS
Who’s Resurrecting The Electric Car?
LA Weekly’s cover feature captures Reverend Gadget at the forefront of the early EV-conversion movement.
Reporting from his Culver City workshop, the article follows his work on Tommy Chong’s all-electric 1946 Oldsmobile and traces the origins of Left Coast Conversions. It highlights Gadget’s mission to make electric vehicles accessible, his collaboration with pioneers in the drag-racing and alternative-energy community, and his belief that independent builders could do what major automakers refused to attempt.
This piece stands as a defining snapshot of Gadget’s influence long before electric cars entered the mainstream.