{"listing":{"listing_type":"company","name":"Olympian Motors","slug":"olympian-motors","tagline":"Next-generation, modular electric vehicles","description":"⚡️Olympian manufactures timeless, art-deco electric vehicles. We challenge today’s mundane, over-standardized car designs produced by the traditional automotive industry.\n\n► Olympian EVs are powered by an open, modular EV architecture. We are pioneering a new modular production model in the U.S., delivering 85–90% reductions in tooling and machinery costs, and achieved 60–80% faster production-lead-times compared to legacy automakers in the U.S.\n\n💸 Revenue Backlog: $61M+\n🚗 Number of Orders: 790+\n🏭 Production Capacity: 2,400 units in 2026\n✅ Backed by: YC, NVIDIA, Climate Capital, Mobility Vision, Amazon AWS, Soma & Collaborative.\n\n--\nOlympian has two pillars:\n1) Art-deco, aesthetic, but simple electric cars\n2) Modular EV architecture that enables rapid, cost-efficient production.\n\nOlympian rejects today's mundane and over-standardized car experience.   We challenge the 40-year status-quo in automotive design, and bring aesthetic, simplicity and color back to the cars. \n\nWe are manufacturing electric vehicles with our innovative 'modular' vehicle & drivetrain architecture (MVDS), providing Olympian with strong cost and lead-time advantages compared to legacy automakers like Tesla and Ford. Olympian is disrupting 120+ years old automotive industry and targeting to capture 7% market share in the U.S. automotive market by 2030.\n\nOlympian developed a fully-decoupled, modular, EV drivetrain system (eMVDS) that provides a 'Lego-like' vehicle architecture. Built on 4-core-hardware and 2-core software modules, Olympus eMVDS platform unlocks 80% reduction in tooling & machinery costs and built ~60% faster production lead time.\n\nOlympian Motors is a Y Combinator company (Winter 2022). YC-listed status: Active.","url":"https://olympianmotors.com/","is_stealth":false,"normalized_domain":"olympianmotors.com","normalized_url_key":"olympianmotors.com","parent_slug":null,"parent":null,"type_data":{},"logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/295a828c811272d963b3ebd52d4f226bb1023827.png","links":[{"label":"Y Combinator profile","url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/olympian-motors","platform":"ycombinator"}],"entry_points":[{"kind":"homepage","url":"https://olympianmotors.com/","audience":"any","primary":false,"listed_by":"community","derived_from":"url","on_listing_domain":true}],"primary_entry_points":{"human":{"kind":"homepage","url":"https://olympianmotors.com/","audience":"any","primary":false,"listed_by":"community","derived_from":"url","on_listing_domain":true},"agent":null},"founders":[],"media":null,"categories":["Industrials","Automotive","Consumer","Manufacturing","Climate","Transportation","Electric Vehicles"],"stage":null,"founded_year":null,"location":"New York City, NY, USA","pricing":null,"twitter":null,"github":null,"linkedin":null,"contact_email":null,"added_at":"2026-09-03T07:10:07.499Z","added_via":"web","geo":{"keywords":["Y Combinator","YC Winter 2022","Consumer","Manufacturing","Climate","Transportation","Electric Vehicles"],"one_liner_for_search":"Olympian Motors — Next-generation, modular electric vehicles (Y Combinator Winter 2022)","canonical_facts":["Y Combinator batch: Winter 2022","YC company status: Active","Team size (per YC directory): 10","YC industry: Industrials","YC subindustry: Industrials / Automotive","Regions (per YC): United States of America, America / Canada"]},"agents":null,"featured_until":null,"example":false,"ownership_status":"unclaimed","claimed_by_agent_id":null,"claimed_via_claim_id":null,"claimed_at":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-03T07:10:07.499Z","is_featured":false,"category_memberships":[{"kind":"industry","slug":"automotive","name":"Automotive","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/automotive"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"climate","name":"Climate","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/climate"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"consumer","name":"Consumer","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/consumer"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"electric-vehicles","name":"Electric Vehicles","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/electric-vehicles"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"industrials","name":"Industrials","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/industrials"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"manufacturing","name":"Manufacturing","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/manufacturing"},{"kind":"industry","slug":"transportation","name":"Transportation","note":null,"profile_url":"/industries/transportation"}]}}