Mountain america4/2/2023 ![]() Less noise pollution is a good thing, less air pollution is a good thing,” Miller said. “We believe that better technology will lead us to a better future. The social benefits, though, are seen as a plus. Hypercraft has found a spot in the community by avoiding any “politically contentious narrative” about electric vehicles, Miller said, and just highlighting the performance and power the systems provide. Five years ago, the founders joke, it would have been the other way around. On a post by Sierra Cars, a race car dealer in Murray using Hypercraft’s systems, about 80% of comments were positive compared to 20% negative. The company has seen a far more positive reaction to its work among the general public than was expected. “You take these pieces, you bolt them in, you plug them together, you plug your computer into it, and, and you go,” he said. Being surrounded at the Mountain America Expo Center by hundreds of classic vehicles and thousands of enthusiasts of all ages, to Miller, is a sign of what’s to come. To Miller, the intrigue at their company and acknowledgment within the industry shows they are at “the tip of the iceberg.” He envisions a future where electric vehicle systems are more readily accessible and more home-builders will seek out these products as opposed to traditional gas engines. At the Championship Auto Shows Autorama in Sandy, thousands of potential customers and automotive enthusiasts saw the company’s systems up close and inside a select group of show pieces.Īttendees breezed through the company’s square of carpet, eyeing everything from an all-electric 1953 Chevy owned by Draper-based TV personality and car customizer Dave Kindig to the BC Customs hybrid electric SXV, an all-terrain light military vehicle. On Saturday and throughout the weekend, a handful of Hypercraft employees brought their products directly to their targeted audience. ![]() In its space at the Provo Towne Centre mall, the company is building battery packs, designing and building junction boxes and wiring while the motor manufacturing is done at Hypercraft’s secondary location in California. The company was also named a Startup of the Year by Silicon Slopes in January. Hypercraft now boasts around 60 employees, over 50 working in Utah, and already raised $6.5 million in its first seed round with enough offers they were turning people away. The world has only grown in the year and a half since the conference. “I think that was the one moment that we said, ‘The timing is right, we’re doing the right thing. “We went to SEMA thinking that we were going to have to go convince people that EV was the future and that you could buy a powertrain system to build an EV and what we were met with is hundreds of builders and performance shops and everything that had been waiting for somebody to come up with a solution,” Hawksworth said. By the time it came to a close, the company had over 400 leads. Their hope was to walk away from the conference with 10-12 people or companies interested in the technology. Hypercraft’s founders were at 2021’s SEMA convention, the world’s largest for specialty automotive equipment. We’re thrilled to partner with Hypercraft, as it disrupts the rapidly growing EV sector in a variety of industries.” “Their leadership team combines innovative manufacturing experience and real-world business ingenuity to provide vehicle manufacturing a path to electrification. “Hypercraft is a high-growth company that we’ve had our eye on for over a year now,” David Mann, managing director at RevRoad Capital, said in a press release. In layman’s terms, the company designs and manufactures systems to power electric vehicles, or EVs. “I think, at a high level, Hypercraft exists to create end-to-end turnkey powertrain systems for vehicle applications,” co-founder Jake Hawksworth said. Every day, Provo’s Hypercraft moves its world forward. Hypercraft employees pose together in this undated photo.Įvery business tries to handle the present and plan for the future. ![]() Hypercraft employee Logan Tanner cleans the shaft of the company’s electric powertrain system at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Hypercraft co-founder Jacob Hawksworth talks to car show attendees at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023.Ī Hypercraft power system inside an all-electric 1967 GT 500 Shelby E1 is displayed at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023.Īuto show attendees point at the Sierra Cars all-electric Echo RX3 powered by Hypercraft at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Hypercraft’s electric powertrain system is displayed at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Hypercraft displays vehicles powered by its systems at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
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