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Britain's Longbow - Is This The Roadster We've Really Been Waiting For?

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Imogen is joined by Daniel Davey, joint CEO of Longbow Motors. He reveals how his team of Tesla, Lucid, and BYD alumni are creating Britain's next generation of electric sports cars. Could Longbow Motors be the future of Britain's Electric Sports Car? Listen Now! 

00:00 - Who are Longbow Motors?

02:00 - Speedster vs Roadster explained

04:07 - Why change how Earth feels about sports cars?

06:45 - Why EVs are perfect for sports cars

09:15 - The right timing for electric sports cars

10:15 - From Tesla to Longbow

12:55 - Tesla Roadster

16:00 - The advisory board

18:45 - Why Longbow will succeed where others failed

21:10 - The importance of co-founder relationships

23:30 - Manufacturing and supply chain

27:00 - Product philosophy

31:45 - Customer base

35:00 - Design process

37:30 - Why the UK is perfect for electric sports car manufacturing

40:00 - Future goals

41:20 - Final thoughts

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Everything Electric podcast, where today I'm going to be joined by Daniel Davy, the CEO of Longbow Motors. Now, if you've never heard of Longbo Motors before, first of all, go and give them a little Google. They are a company based here in the UK on a mission to create an electric roadster and speedster.

0:26.0

Now these two cars will be priced at 85K and 65K respectively and will offer a 275 miles of range

0:32.3

and both will weigh less than a ton.

0:35.6

Now in Longbow's words, they will be the purest expression of a

0:38.5

British sports car, unlike anything that has come before, the spirit of the past, engineered for the

0:43.5

future. Now, with the name of the Rosed to perhaps being a not-so-sustle swip at Tesla, it should come as

0:49.8

no surprise that the Longbow team is composed of Tesla, Polestar, Lucid, Uber and BYD alumni,

0:55.8

who all felt a proper electric sports car was missing from the EV lineup. Now in this episode,

1:02.1

we're going to be finding out how on earth the Longbow team are going to bring these

1:05.7

rather beautiful cars to fruition without falling foul of some of the woes that have troubled

1:10.3

various EV startups

1:11.6

and OEMs in recent years.

1:13.6

Now all of that to come, but first a very quick advert break.

1:17.6

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1:41.2

Daniel, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. I guess first things first,

1:45.9

for those who might not have, you know, quickly gone to Google and Googled Longbow during

1:50.8

the introduction, can you give us the pitch, paint a picture for us, what are these two

1:55.6

fabulous vehicles that you're currently creating? Yeah, so Longbow, our mission is to change

2:00.8

how the earth feels about sports cars.

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