Build Movie Vehicles on an Open EV Platform
Picture cars, stunt rigs, hero vehicles, military, sci-fi. Drive-by-wire and remote-capable. Silent on set, repeatable take after take, ready to drive in under two months.
The shape is yours. The chassis arrives drivable — and, when the shot requires it, drives itself with no one in the cabin.
PRODUCTION GUIDE
A picture car is a problem in three parts: get the right silhouette, make it drivable, make it safe enough for set. The Olympus EV platform solves the second and third before the production starts. You bring the body. We bring the chassis — drive-by-wire, remote-capable, automotive-grade steel, and silent enough to mic the scene around it.
Why an EV Platform for Picture Cars
The traditional picture car is a donor vehicle, hand-modified in a shop, pushed past what the original drivetrain was designed for. It works — until the engine refuses to start on take twenty-two, the wiring melts under a stunt load, or the production sound team gives up because the carburetor will not idle quietly enough to mic the scene.
The Olympus Skateboard is an open, modular EV platform built with automotive-grade steel and safety-tested in-house. The chassis arrives drivable — battery, motor, suspension, steering, brakes, and the cockpit electronics already integrated. You bring the body and the production design; the platform does everything underneath.
0 dB
Engine noise. Mic the dialogue, not the motor.
< 2 mo
In-stock delivery. From greenlight to set.
100%
Repeatable. Take 22 drives like take 1.
Drive-by-Wire & Remote Operation
Olympus is drive-by-wire from the ground up. No steering column. No master cylinder. No mechanical linkage between the driver and the wheels — only signals. Steering, throttle, and brake are electric actuators commanded by the vehicle ECU.
The practical consequence: every input the platform accepts can also come from a remote. The cabin can be empty, the body can be a shell, and the picture car can still drive the take. Stunt rigs become safer because the stunt driver is in a chase car, not the burning one. Hero shots can be framed without a body obscuring the steering wheel. Sci-fi cabins with no controls visible can still drive on camera.
THE CONTROL CHAIN
Remote pilot to wheel · low-latency, repeatable, programmable
01
Remote Pilot
Operator with handheld or chase-car control. No driver in the seat, no stunt double risked.
02
RF / Wired Link
Low-latency control link to the vehicle ECU. Bluetooth and CAN exposed for custom integrations.
03
Vehicle ECU
Translates pilot inputs into precise throttle, steering, and brake commands.
04
By-Wire Actuators
Steering motor, throttle motor, brake actuator — repeatable to the degree, frame after frame.
Empty Cabin
Body shell can hide the controls — the car still drives.
Stunt Safety
Pilot in a chase car, not in the burning one.
Repeatable
Frame-perfect repeats for VFX plates and multi-cam.
WHAT THIS UNLOCKS ON SET
Stunt Rigs
Run a chase or crash sequence with the driver seat empty.
Hero Shots
Frame the talent and the body — no operator visible.
Sci-Fi Interiors
Cockpits with no visible controls. The car drives anyway.
Bluetooth + SDK
Programmatic control. Script throttle and steering to a timecode.
Silent Drive
Production sound captures dialogue, not engine idle.
VFX Plates
Repeatable paths for clean composites — no driver to paint out.
How Easy It Is to Build
Building a picture car the traditional way is months of donor hunting, fabrication, and prayer. The Olympus way is mount the body on top of the chassis — that is it.
THE HARD WAY
Donor car + a shop + luck
- ✗Hunt for a donor car that matches the era and the script.
- ✗Strip, modify, fabricate — rebuild a forty-year-old drivetrain to last a shoot.
- ✗Rig stunt safety on a machine that was never engineered for it.
- ✗Mic the scene around an idling combustion engine.
- ✗Pray the picture car starts on take twenty-two.
THE OLYMPUS WAY
Platform + body + go
- ✓Order the platform; spec the wheelbase to the body the production designed.
- ✓Mount the body on top of a tested, drivable chassis. That is it.
- ✓Drive-by-wire from the start — no steering column, brake-by-wire, throttle-by-wire.
- ✓Silent electric drive. Sound mix the scene, not the engine.
- ✓Repeats are identical. Take twenty-two drives like take one.
- PlatformOlympus EV Skateboard Kit v3.0
- ConstructionAutomotive-grade steel chassis
- Wheelbase105″–153″ · configurable
- DriveSteer-, throttle-, brake-by-wire
- ControlDriver, remote, or SDK
- Power110–130 kW
- Battery54–72 kWh
- Range188–255 mi
- Top Speed121 mph
- Noise0 dB
- ConnectivityBluetooth · CAN · T-Box
- DeliveryIn stock · under 2 months
Greenlight
Production designer locks the silhouette. We spec the wheelbase to match.
Chassis Ships
In-stock platform delivers to your shop in under two months. Already drivable.
Mount the Body
Fiberglass, aluminum, carbon, foam, fabric — the platform does not care. Published hardpoints, real drawings.
Wire the Remote
Drive-by-wire, brake-by-wire, steer-by-wire. Pair a remote pilot rig or script inputs via SDK.
Day of Shoot
Silent electric drive. Mic the dialogue. Roll the cameras.
Strike, Re-Skin, Reuse
Same chassis underneath the next production. Rebrand the body, redeploy the platform.
What You Can Build
A short list of what the platform happily becomes. None of these are scripts you have to talk us into — the chassis was designed to disappear under whatever the production designer draws.
Hero Car
The vehicle the audience remembers. Retro-futurist, custom silhouette, the production's signature piece.
Stunt & Action
Chase rigs, crash bodies, jump cars. Run them remote with no one in the seat.
Tactical / Military
Armored silhouettes, SWAT trucks, near-future enforcement vehicles. The platform's ground clearance carries the look.
Sci-Fi / Near-Future
Cabins without visible controls. Vehicles that should not obviously be driven by a human. The remote does the rest.
Period & Replica
60s coupes, prewar hot rods, 70s wedges. Configurable wheelbase (105″ to 153″) and any body shell on top.
Episodic / Series Reuse
One chassis under multiple bodies across a season. Re-skin between episodes; keep the warranty.
Specs & Pricing
Production-grade hardware, indie-friendly pricing. The Lite tier costs less than the donor car most builders start with.
54–72 kWh
Battery — a full shoot day, no swap
110–130 kW
Power, instant torque, no idle
121 mph
Top speed — chase scenes covered
By-Wire
Steering, throttle, brake — all electric
105–153 in
Wheelbase — sized to your body
CAN + BT
Programmable. Scriptable. Remote-capable.
THREE TIERS, ALL DRIVABLE
Lite
$27,500
Skateboard, 54 kWh battery, assembly manuals. For indie productions and shorts.
Standard
$37,500
Ready-to-drive chassis, 54–72 kWh, three-year / 100,000-mile warranty. For series and feature productions.
Developer
$50,000
Full SDK access, NVIDIA integration, L4-ready. For VFX houses, picture-car shops, and effects studios.
RELATED RESOURCES
Bring the Script. We Bring the Chassis.
We invite production designers, picture-car coordinators, stunt teams, and studio R&D shops to visit Olympian Motors and test drive the platform. Stock chassis on the floor. Delivery in under two months.
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