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Jaunt turns previous gasoline vehicles into electrical automobiles for highway adventures
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These old-school SUVs and four-wheel-drive journey vehicles are nice — aside from all of the waste-emitting gasoline wanted to gasoline them on tenting journeys and scenic drives via nature.
That is the place Australian startup Jaunt is available in, changing previous automobiles just like the 1971 Land Rover Sequence 2a into electrical highway trippers. That is the primary automotive the corporate has raised sufficient cash to revamp. The automotive must be accessible in time for the Australian spring and summer season.
The corporate to this point solely has the Land Rover, named Juniper, but it surely needs to transform extra automobiles to arrange for leases for pre-planned “jaunts” round Australia. Thus far an Indiegogo marketing campaign has raised greater than $10,000 (over A$14,000). In the end the startup hopes to obtain $50,000 to supply extra journeys and vehicles.
Lease the transformed electrical automobile for an Australian highway journey.
Automotive leases can be found for dates beginning as quickly as June in Byron Bay, the Blue Mountains, and different coastal drives and scenic areas of Australia. A rainforest highway journey for a day prices $142 in Juniper, the transformed automobile.
Earlier than anybody can go on an electrical journey in what Jaunt calls an “upcycled” automobile, the primary automotive must be transformed. The conversion course of includes eradicating the engine, gasoline tank, and exhaust system, and placing in an electrical motor, a 100-kilowatt NetGain Hyper9 AC. There’s additionally the batteries, charging system, and regenerative braking that goes into the old-but-new automobile.
It isn’t simply older, beat-up automobiles getting overhauled with a jolt of electrical power. In February, Porsche’s Macan SUV was introduced as the most recent electrical makeover automobile. The Jaguar traditional E-Sort is coming again as an all-electric sports activities automotive as properly.
Jaunt’s transformed Land Rover is simply a prototype (that hasn’t been completed but), but it surely’ll give adventurous drivers a option to discover Australia, electrically.
