Electric vehicle design and engineering. Built for Australian conditions.
Some of the most iconic vehicles ever made were designed for Australian conditions — the heat, the distances, the terrain. Land Rovers. Mokes. Kombis. They were built for a country where the nearest anything is a long way away.
But the things underneath — the engines, the gearboxes, the wiring — were always fighting against you. Unreliable. Loud. Thirsty. Hard to maintain. Hard to justify.
We started Jaunt because we believed you shouldn’t have to choose. That these vehicles could keep everything people love about them — the shape, the character, the way they make you feel — 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 that the idea worked: a vehicle with the soul of the original and the performance of something entirely new.
Since then, we’ve grown into Australia’s largest electric vehicle engineering operation of our kind — designing and building complete EV powertrains for vehicles that no global manufacturer has any plans to electrify.
We’re a design and engineering company. We develop electric vehicle powertrains and battery storage systems — the software, the electrical architecture, the mechanical engineering, the user experience — 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 the 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.
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. We spend time on the feel of every switch. We spend time on 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 design. It’s 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.
A team of 15 designers, engineers, fabricators, and mechanics in Melbourne — working across software, electrical, mechanical, and everything in between.