How a Jaunt is built.

You tell us what you're after. Platform, donor car (if you have one), use case, budget, timing. We listen, ask the questions you haven't thought of yet, and tell you honestly whether what you want is possible at the price you're imagining. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say so.

If we both want to keep going, we book a workshop visit, or arrange to inspect your car wherever it is.

The car comes to the workshop, or our assessor goes to it. We check chassis condition, body straightness, suspension, brakes, original wiring. We log every defect with photos and a written note. We confirm the platform, the configuration, and the certification path.

What you get back is a written assessment and a written quote. Itemised. Honest about risk. No "TBC at build time" hidden line items.

We've always approached EV conversions as a user-experience design problem. Sure it's a mechanical and engineering challenge too, but can we package the whole thing in a way that makes a good car for 2026? The brakes, the steering, the throttle response, the cabin temperature, the way the gauges read, all of it. That's the engineering brief.

Battery pack mounts, drive unit cradles, brake hardware, cooling routing, harness layout. All drawn in CAD first, signed off, then released to the workshop. The wiring harnesses are printed one-to-one onto a looming board so they can be assembled in our climate-controlled electrical build room before they ever go in the car.

Compliance documentation runs in parallel. Engineering certificates, ADR sign-off, VASS pre-approval. The car can't be registered without these, so we don't leave them for the last minute.

The shop floor work runs to a 26-step sequence we've refined across 20+ vehicles. Disassembly. Chassis modifications and paint. Body re-fit. Drivetrain installation. Battery pack assembly and integration. Brakes, steering, cabin systems. Charging hardware. Test bench, then road test.

We send you photo updates every couple of weeks. You can visit the workshop any time you're in Melbourne, or we can run a video walkaround if you're not.

Engineering and compliance of a classic car converted to an EV is a complex thing, and it differs by country. It even differs a little between Australian states. Fundamentally everyone's working to the same national standards. The interpretation and processes vary.

The principle holds though: in Australia you can do anything you want to a car as long as you can prove it's safe. So we do the work. We create extensive documentation. We hand it to the approving authority. Multi-stage approval. Once it's done, it's a legal car. As legal, as safe, and as insurable as any other vehicle on the road.

You collect the car at the workshop, or we deliver it to you. Either way, we walk you through the systems, the charging behaviour, the maintenance schedule, and the support arrangements.

Annual service is a workshop visit if you're in Melbourne, or a coordinated visit with a partner workshop if you're not. Most diagnostics happen remotely thanks to the on-board CAN logger.

Where Jaunt differs from a factory service operation: we can open up our own systems and repair the individual component, rather than replace an entire assembly. A failed cell doesn't cost you a battery pack. A failed connector doesn't cost you a harness. And because we manufactured the components in the first place, we can shuffle the production pipeline to support fast-turnaround service work.

Parts are stocked in-house. Software updates happen over-the-air. The car is built to be supported for decades, not years.