British Startup Longbow Unveils Featherweight Electric Sports Cars

• Speedster and Roadster of Longbow are electric sports cars of the future made with an ultra-lightweight, driver-centric approach that promises to deliver performance without any burden with the latest technology.
• Longbow has specialised aluminium chassis and exclusive production runs to attract the new-age British enthusiast back into the classic heritage of sports cars in a more electrified form.

Electric vehicles are equipped with heavy batteries and interiors embedded entirely in technology, but the British startup Longbow has taken a different approach into account. The Speedster and Roadster mark the comeback of British sports cars with a modern addition, an all-electric approach to bringing back the heritage.

Modern Classic British Engineering

Founded in 2023 by industry veterans Daniel Davey, Jenny Keisu, and Mark Tapscott, Longbow aims to redefine what an electric sports car can be. Their catchphrase? “Celeritas Levitas” – Latin for “The Speed of Lightness.” Unlike many EVs that focus on range or autonomous features, Longbow is all about bare-bones driver-orientated performance in the vein of the iconic Lotus Elise and Jaguar E-Type.

Therefore, you have Featherweight Electric Vehicles (FEV), a brand-new category of sports cars that are all about minimalism, agility, and pure driving thrills.

Speed Above Everything Else

It’s one of the greatest challenges in electric vehicle design: making the performance so good that it justifies the weight of the batteries. Longbow has gone straight to the perplex: a bespoke aluminium chassis, featuring astonishing stiffness and very low weight.

• Speedster: Plummeting straight towards the ground and 895 kg, a mere 3.5 seconds from 0 to 62 with a utility track 275 miles in WLTP.
• Roadster: A heftier 995 kg on this model, doing 0-62 mph in 3.6 seconds. What a bargain at £64,995.

With the lightweight design replacing unwieldy batteries, Longbow provides exceptional handling while making users feel that it’s closer to old gasoline sports cars than the heavier, bulkier EVs of today.

True Driving Pleasure – Nothing More

Longbow hosts minimal, handcrafted interiors with no excessive touchscreens or digital distractions. Everything revolves around the driver. Every car has its history, created strenuously for the sheer mechanical joy of driving so that every twist and turn feels like an event.

Longbow is producing only 150 cars per model in the special Luminary 1st Edition and Autograph Edition variants for true exclusivity. The first customer deliveries are slated for 2026, but reservations are already open.

A Team That Knows EVs Inside Out

Longbow is not an ordinary startup that is trying its luck in the EV market. This team of leaders has proven experience in the industry:

Daniel Davey and Mark Tapscott have worked at Tesla and Lucid Motors, two companies that have taken electric performance to cutting-edge extremes.

Jenny Keisu is a model in marine electrification, implying that exciting technology can take wing without contravening sustainability.

The New Era in British Sports Cars

Longbow’s synergies have ushered in a thrilling new chapter for British automotive history. In a market increasingly filled with complex tech-laden EVs, the spirit of lightweight, responsive driving – from which British sports cars drew their glory – is being rekindled.

With their unique FEV concept, beautiful craftsmanship, and driver-centred approach, Longbow shatters the stereotype that electric sports cars are boring, heavy, or overloaded with pointless technology. Instead, these cars can be fast, fun, and exciting.

Could this be the future of sports cars? It seems to go that way for all the driving purists.