Michael Bream is, I believe, one of those people that sort of bounced off Jack Rickard. He's apparently hard to get along with. Michael's Youtube channel is
EV West. The videos range from 2 to 5 years old. The last video from 2015 is a conversion of a Fiat 500 Jolly. It's a very well done conversion that bolts to the stock transaxle mounts. I think they use Zelectic kits:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zelectric
His co-host Eric Hutchison is a jerk that blows up clutches and laughs about it.
Jesu Garcia seems like a good guy. His 23-window bus is legendary (wish I still had mine). I like his work a lot.
That Vice link freaks out NoScript with it's cross-site scripting.