World’s fastest electric motorcycle
The legendary salt flats of Bonneville are a hive of activity during summer and autumn in America, and this year a new electric record has been setA husband and wife duo has created the world’s fastest electric motorcycle in their Denver garage, with the new record now sitting at 270.224mph.
Eva Hakansson and Bill Dube’s electric motorcycle is called ‘KillaJoule’, and Hakansson was at the controls during the successful pass in early September, where it not only became the fastest electric motorcycle ever built but also the fastest motorcycle with a sidecar.
"The computer model showed a possible maximum speed of 270 mph," Hakansson wrote in her blog. "For the first time ever, practice agreed with theory. We were both pleasantly surprised. It doesn't happen very often, for sure."
Power for the record-setting bike comes from a 500hp EVO electric motor with juice stored in a series of lithium nano-phosphate battery cells from A123 Systems. Weighing in at 699kg, including Hakasson, the KillaJoule is constructed with chrome-moly steel tubing wrapped in pre-painted aluminium body panels. A detailed breakdown of the design is in the second attached image.
Hakansson is a 33-year-old PhD candidate at the University of Denver, and Dube is a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The pair built KillaJoule’ in their two-car garage in Denver, Colorado.
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