About Jaunt

The car you imagine.
Not the car it was.

The Story

Keep everything people love. Lose everything they don't.

The vehicles people fall in love with rarely came with great drivetrains. Land Rovers. Mokes. Kombis. The shapes are iconic. The character is everything. The engines, the gearboxes, the wiring? Those were always the compromise.

We started Jaunt because we believed you shouldn't have to choose. These vehicles could keep everything people love about them, and lose everything they don't.

We founded Jaunt at the end of 2018 and built our first vehicle, a 1971 Land Rover Series IIA called Juniper. She was the proof. A vehicle with the soul of the original and the performance of something entirely new.

Today, Jaunt is Australia's largest electric vehicle engineering operation of its kind. We design and build complete EV powertrains for vehicles that no global manufacturer has any plans to electrify.

Jaunt Land Rover Series, the original Juniper build

Jaunt workshop in Melbourne, vehicles in progress

Jaunt vehicle in the Australian landscape

What We Do

A design and engineering company that happens to build cars.

We develop electric vehicle powertrains and battery storage systems. The software, the electrical architecture, the mechanical engineering, the user experience. All from the ground up.

Then we put those systems inside specialty vehicles built for Australian conditions. Classic Land Rovers and Defenders for people who want to explore without compromise. Minis and Mokes for people who want something genuinely joyful to drive. Porsches for people who want the definitive version of an icon. Commercial coaches for operators who need to electrify fleets that nobody else can service.

The thread connecting a 1958 Land Rover to an eight-tonne electric coach isn't classic cars. It's the vehicles that the world's major manufacturers will never build. And the engineering required to make them brilliant.

How We Think

A thousand details nobody notices.

We care about every detail. Not as a line on a wall. As a way of working.

We spend time on the typeface for the gauges. The feel of every switch. Suspension tuning, brake response, the way the steering loads up through a corner. Every wire in every vehicle is labelled with its function. Every connection is sealed and tested.

We question every component: does the person driving this experience it? Should we design it differently?

That thinking runs through everything. The mechanical engineering. The electrical systems. The software. The interior. A thousand details nobody notices. Collectively, they define the experience.

Our goal isn't to do everything ourselves. It's to build the best possible product. We source the best components and work with the best partners wherever they are, because the vehicle you drive matters more than who made every individual part.

What We've Built

From a 1958 Land Rover to an eight-tonne coach.

Across seven years, we've built and engineered electric vehicles on platforms most manufacturers wouldn't touch. Each one started with the same question: what would this vehicle be if the drivetrain stopped fighting it?