If you read anything I write at all, you’ll know I’m not a big fan of electric vehicles. I don’t like the silence, the screens, the emotionless designs. I want to feel emotionally connected to the car I’m driving. However, talking with Longbow Co-Founder Mark Tapscott may have changed my mind about EVs. Almost. I met up with Tapscott at the Petersen Automotive Museum, where a two-toned racing green prototype of the Longbow Speedster was on display right in the lobby. He was a bit late due to a fiasco with Uber, but this gave me a chance to watch many museum-goers stop to admire the car. Many seemed drawn in. One guy took photos of it for a good 15 minutes. One kid even kept touching it, which was horrific. But again: people were drawn to the Speedster. When I started speaking with Tapscott, he talked a lot about “theater,” his term for making the vehicle engaging despite the lack of an engine. This included a stick shift and no screens in the interior, giving it a nearly perfect 50/50 weight distribution. It was built to be a sports car that happens to be electric, rather than a sporty electric car. I was basically pretty convinced that Longbow cracked the code. It created a vehicle that bridged the gap between electric vehicles and driver’s cars. But then we came to a disagreement. Longbow doesn’t want to show emotion, it wants you to feel emotion While discussing the design of the Longbow, Tapscott said it is just an “aesthetic demonstrator.” It will maybe look a bit different during production. Definitely cleaner. But the overall design philosophy would stay the same. The front is expansive, the skin stretched without breaks or sharp lines, creating a classic 1960s feel. It does have