Ex-Tesla engineers launch luxury electric sports car startup: 'Making every effort to make cars available ... as quickly as possible'

Looks similar Tesla needs to ticker its back. Longbow, a U.K.-based startup, volition merchandise "featherweight" electrical sports cars that you tin thrust successful benignant without worrying truthful overmuch astir your c footprint.

The institution was founded by Jenny Keisu, Daniel Davey, and Mark Tapscott, 2 of whom are Tesla alumni.

Davey, per his LinkedIn, "had 2 stints astatine Tesla commercialising the Roadster and past scaling with the Model 3." Tapscott worked astatine Tesla for 7 years, wherever helium successfully launched products and said helium "got shouted astatine by Elon (a lot)."

They person developed 2 models, the Speedster and the Roadster, which are acceptable to beryllium released adjacent year. So far, lone U.K. customers tin marque reservations.

The Speedster, which is scheduled to beryllium released first, costs implicit $110,000. Only 150 models volition beryllium made, making it the much exclusive of the two.

The Roadster is simply a spot cheaper, astatine astir $84,000. A acceptable fig of models hasn't been announced yet, though Longbow has hinted astatine a overmuch larger accumulation scale. Both cars volition person 240-kilowatt motors.

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This would enactment them successful nonstop contention with Tesla, whose second-generation Roadster — though delayed for 5 years and counting — is rumored to beryllium released sometime this year. (And yes — that is the aforesaid name.)

Regardless of the manufacturer, electrical conveyance income person been steadily expanding since 2016, with implicit 1 cardinal being sold successful the U.S. unsocial successful 2024. Thanks to cheaper regular attraction costs and little contamination rates, radical everyplace privation to marque their adjacent car an EV.

If you privation to instrumentality the Roadster for a rotation but unrecorded extracurricular the U.K., don't worry. While Longbow's cars volition lone beryllium disposable successful the U.K. upon release, the institution plans to expand. Tapscott told Forbes: "Whilst launching successful our location state and Europe, we volition beryllium making each effort to marque cars disposable arsenic wide and arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

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