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A British carmaker called Longbow plans to start producing its hand-built electric sports car, the Speedster, at Mira Tech Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire next year. Backed by £3 million from a government fund, the project aims to create over 200 jobs and produce more than 10,000 cars annually. Longbow's co-CEO Daniel Davey emphasizes that the UK is uniquely suited for building such specialized vehicles due to local expertise and supply chains.
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A British carmaker named Longbow plans to start production of its hand-built electric Speedster in Nuneaton, Warwickshire at Mira Tech Park next year. The West Midlands Combined Authority is providing £3m from a government fund, which will be matched by Longbow, aiming to manufacture more than 10,000 cars annually and create over 200 skilled jobs. Daniel Davey, co-CEO of Longbow, emphasized that the Speedster cannot be built anywhere else in the world due to unique supply chain needs specific to the UK. The car already has a waiting list of international buyers willing to pay around £85,000 per unit.
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A British carmaker has unveiled plans to start production of its hand-built electric sports car in Warwickshire.
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Longbow is to start production of its limited-edition Speedster at Mira Tech Park in Nuneaton next year.
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Longbow → start → Nuneaton
West Midlands mayor Richard Parker, who backed Longbow with £3m from a government fund, said the project will be followed by the firm's Roadster model, creating more than 200 skilled jobs.
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Daniel Davey, Longbow's co-chief executive officer, said the region was the best place to build the cars.
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"It's not just the supply chain; you've got the talent here and the know-how," he said.
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Davey said: "You cannot build this car anywhere else in the world.
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And if you did, you would be importing UK components to it.
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"So you can get heavy components elsewhere, and you can get high-volume components elsewhere; what we're looking for is low-volume, high-quality, low-cost, low-weight."
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The Speedster has a waiting list of prospective buyers from across the world, waiting to spend around £85,000 on the sports car.
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At the test track at Mira, the all-British creation silently demonstrated how a lightweight sports car can go from an idea to a vehicle in less than two years, helped by regional expertise.
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Longbow said the UK was good at building lightweight sports cars.
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"Our designers are just up the road in Leamington Spa, engineers from across the West Midlands and further afield," Davey added.
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The project was backed by £3m from the government's £50m West Midlands Supplier Readiness and Transformation fund, external, which aims to accelerate the UK's transition to electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing.
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Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the £3m was to strengthen the supply chain and the industry.
West Midlands Combined Authority said the money would be match-funded by Longbow, which plans to manufacture more than 10,000 cars a year.
Parker said: "We've been building cars here in West Midlands for 130 years, so what better location for a new generation of carmakers like Longbow.
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They know this industry inside out and are investing here because this is quite simply the best place in the UK to build a car."
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Car industry expert Professor David Bailey said: "They're trying to do what Tesla first did many years ago with a sort of lightweight, fast electric sports car.
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So I think it's great; it shows we have great research and development skills.
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We can probably compete, I think, in terms of low-volume, high-margin cars, but more broadly we need to be doing a lot more to support the auto industry in the region and enable it to continue growing."
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