Fast Facts – Longbow Featherweight EV
🏎️ Power: 322-hp single-motor electric drivetrain
⚙️ Performance: 0–60 mph in just over 3 seconds
⚡ Weight: 1,973 lbs (Speedster), 2,193 lbs (Roadster)
🔋 Battery: Lightweight pack (capacity undisclosed)
💰 Price: Approx. $92,600 MSRP (Europe launch)
📅 Availability: Launching 2026, Europe first
The Return of the Lightweight Roadster
I have always been a big fan of the classic British roadster, those light two-seater sports cars that can take twisty canyon roads like they are attached to rails. What could be more fun to pilot than an MGA, an Austin-Healy 3000, a Jaguar XK120 or nimble Lotus 7?
Now that radical experience of piloting maneuverable lightweight road racers has been extended to the EV world thanks to Longbow Motors. According to the company website, “Adding lightness is the open secret to true speed – not just in a straight line, but in every nuance of motion.”
The Longbow Motors site informs us that, “With its pioneering lightweight technologies, Longbow introduces an entirely new species of automobile: the Featherlight Electric Vehicle (FEV); a predator with a silent heartbeat, it hunts in territories where electrification has long feared to tread.”
Longbow Motors: Born From British Performance Heritage
That boast is a lot to live up to, but I was extremely impressed by the company’s attitude, design philosophy, and dedication to creating a light new British roadster. Longbow is the world’s first true electric sports car manufacturer in the UK, with offices in Covent Garden, London.
Its three proud founders have collectively launched and scaled multiple iconic companies including Tesla, Lucid Motors, Uber, Polestar, and BYD. Jenny Keisu, Daniel Davey, and Mark Tapscott are building elegant, light, and very fast EV sportscars that will be available in both left hand and right hand drive models, launching first in Europe, and proceeding to take over the globe.
The current EV market is filled with heavy cars with heavy battery packs. But Longbow packs light. Its open top Speedster and hardtop Roadster models are very light, coming in at 2,193 pounds for the Roadster and just 1,973 pounds for the open-air Speedster.
Longbow co-founder and CEO Daniel Davey tells us, “We have lost something important. Many modern ‘sportscars’ tip the scales at 1,500kg (3,307 pounds) and BEVs can reach almost double that (For instance, the Lucid Air weighs in at 5,300 pounds). There is a need for a more driver-oriented, featherweight, electric sportscar.”
With the Longbow two-seaters, the company has reached all this and more. Its new EVs are lighter than a Mazda Miata or BMW Z4. They are lighter than a Tesla Model 3 by over 1,100 pounds. So, the new Longbow Speedster and Roadster models are light, nimble, sure-footed, and powerful. In fact, the company says both cars are powered by a single 322-horsepower electric motor that can blast you from zero to 60mph in just over 3 seconds.
Featherweight Speed and Design Philosophy
The company’s motto is Celeritas Levitas, or “the speed of lightness.” The Longbow team has drawn inspiration from such epic British motoring icons as Lotus and Jaguar. The hope is return drivers to the experience of tactile driving but in an all-electric format. “Longbow is the next chapter in that story,” says co-founder Mark Tapscott. “British engineering and automotive craftsmanship have a long history of developing lightweight sportscars with great commercial and competitive success.”
The first hand-built Longbow to hit the streets will be the Speedster, which reminds me of my own favorite sportscar I ever owned, a 1966 Model 2 Lotus 7 with a Lotus/Ford Twin Cam motor. It is the only car I have owned that I wish I had never sold. It still has my heart.
The Longbow Speedster will be available in Europe in 2026 and reservations are open now. The company says that it will be priced at around $92,600d MSRP.
Find out more at longbowmotors.com
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