Briggs Automotive Company

Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) was founded by brothers Neill (Director of Product Development) and Ian Briggs (design director) in 2009. The Briggs brothers consulted for car brands including Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley and Ford on design and engineering projects, until they decided to expand their creative potential with a product from scratch.

The result was the BAC Mono, a lightweight, single-seater, open-top, road-legal sports car.

The first BAC Mono was produced in 2011 and made its inaugural public appearance at the Retro Classics show in Stuttgart, Germany.

BAC conducts research and development into lightweight automotive technology, especially for the use of graphene in the car body.

Combining graphene within carbon fibre enhances the structural properties of carbon to result in fewer sheets being needed to meet functional performance targets. With BAC Mono and Mono R panels, the addition of graphene ensured panels required two sheets of carbon fibre, rather than three.

A panel set that weighed 41 kg before the use of graphene weighed 32 kg after use of graphene.

In 2020, BAC was awarded UK Government funding to undertake its latest nano element R&D project, exploring the use of niobium in the structure of BAC Mono. The project is sponsored by CBMM, a manufacturer of niobium products.