About
A small team,
built around
one vehicle.
Kentus is a Canadian mining vehicle company founded in 2025 to design and manufacture battery-electric personnel carriers for underground hard-rock operators.
Shop Floor
Build
Cab roll cage, partial
Location
Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Year
2026
03 / Program Roadmap
Build cadence.
May 2025 ✓ Complete
Operations Begin
Kentus begins operations in Toronto, Ontario.
June 2025 ✓ Complete
Core Team Assembly
Core engineering and advisory team assembled.
Q3 2025 ✓ Complete
Phase 1: Concept and Feasibility
- Vehicle concept definition
- High level feasibility studies
- Initial packaging and requirements
- Regulatory pathway exploration
Q4 2025 ✓ Complete
Phase 2: Architecture and Prototyping
- Moved into prototyping space in Chatham-Kent, Ontario
- Platform architecture design
- Engineering, CAD and design
- Early structural prototyping
- Supplier and component evaluation
- Electrical design and iteration
Q2 2026 In progress
Phase 3: Functional Prototype Development
- Integrated vehicle prototype
- Subsystem integration
- Initial functional testing
Q4 2026 Planned
Phase 4: Structural Testing
ROPS / FOPS test campaign across the full crew envelope.
Upcoming Planned
Phase 5: Vendor Demonstration
First underground demonstration with a host operator.
The Pilot Program
Built around your mine.
How your operation shapes the vehicle, and what we'd want to learn about yours.