The Company

Purpose-built by people who have done it before.

A diverse team, globally trained, exceptional at
high-growth commercial vehicle development.

Experience drawn from teams at

PorscheBentleySaabMcLarenMaruti SuzukiRicardoDENSOMicrosoft

Our beliefs

The Superlight Manifesto

  1. Consider virtually any object: the shirt on your back, the coffee cup on your desk, the screen you are reading from. Before that object reached you, it lived in the back of a truck. Not once, but potentially a dozen times across its lifecycle — moving from raw materials to production to regional processing, sorting hubs, and distribution centers, and finally - to you.

    Because every atom must travel along our road networks, humanity pays an invisible, compounding levy: a logistics tax.

    Between 10% and 20% of the cost of everything we purchase, wear, and consume is not tied to design, materials, labour or even profit. It is simply the price paid to cross physical distance. For millenia, global commerce has accepted this friction as an immutable law of physics and economics. We've treated the cost of moving matter as an unavoidable overhead on existence, settling for fractional percentage gains eked out through route optimisation software or incremental fuel and energy efficiencies.

    But what if the vast majority of this tax exists because the primary instrument of physical commerce is built on an obsolete paradigm?

Our history

A decade of first principles

2016

Founded with a thesis: optimise commercial transport around the mission, not legacy machinery.

2020

The first OV-1 prototypes entered road trials.

2021

Commercial pilots began with major logistics providers.

2023

Moved into the AI-defined factory in Yateley, UK.

2025

Production intent refined through more than 500,000 kilometres of powertrain mileage.

Today

Building for early fleet access from a UK manufacturing facility near Heathrow.

Supply chain

Blue-chip supply chain

With a decade of active EV development and platform iterations, Superlight has mature supply relationships and active contracts in place with Tier-1 automotive suppliers poised to support.

Investors

Backed for industrial scale

Engine Ventures
2150
Avila Ventures

Careers

Join the team building what comes next

At Superlight, we're in a unique position to change the physics and the economic efficiency of the middle mile.

This platform does more than just secure a margin advantage for our customers, it triggers a powerful, virtuous sequence.

Profound savingsrapid fleet adoptionenvironmental transformation

We are hiring engineers and operators who want to transform a foundational global industry.

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