Revenge of the Electric Car

Starting Again (photo: Steve Payne)

Over the holidays, the “Revenge” team spent time filming with Greg “Gadget”  Abbott as he moved into a cavernous new warehouse space in downtown LA.

Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric.   He’s also the star of the TV shows “Smash Lab” and “Monster House”- where he’s shown millions of viewers how to build eye-popping structures from the most unlikely materials.  Gadget’s motto is : “If you think it can’t be done, then you’re talking to the wrong people!”

Gadget made a barnstorming appearance in “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and he’s taking a bigger role in “Revenge.”  That’s partly because Gadget’s new 2000 square foot shop is being built out of the ashes of his old shop in Culver City.  Late last year,  Gadget’s workshop was destroyed in a fire.   The blaze took away some of Gadget’s most prized work, including a super sleek electric powered Silver Porsche which featured at PlugInAmerica’s Sept 08 gala fundraiser alongside the Tesla Roadster and GM’s Volt prototype.  Most people would have been knocked flat by such a turn of events, but the fire seems to have made Gadget and his wife, Charlotte, even more determined to push for a plug-in future.

As befits a man with ten Guinness World Records under his belt, (including the world’s largest electric guitar), Gadget’s rising to the challenge.   As 2009 progresses, we’ll be at Gadget and Charlotte’s side as they rebuild their lives.  Stage One is transforming an abandoned LA warehouse and rebuilding his silver electric Porsche into a scalable production vehicle.   Stay tuned…