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The KillaCycle, created by inventor Bill Dubé, is the world’s quickest and fastest electric motorcycle. The KillaCycle was originally created in 1999 as a concept vehicle to show off electric motor and battery technology, and has since set and broken world speed records whenever it has competed. Driven by Scotty Pollacheck, the KillaCycle’s technical specs certainly describe a drag-race-only vehicle:

The KillaCycle is basically a giant cordless drill on wheels. It is driven by two custom-wound DC series motors which crank out over 500 HP of power. The battery pack is custom-build, has a 9.1 kWh capacity, and contains 1,210 lithium iron nano-phosphate cells made by A123 Systems. The bike is driven by a direct chain drive on the rear wheel and costs about $0.07 for each run down the quarter mile strip, including the burn out.

KillaCycle driver Scotty Pollacheck does a burnout before a race.		The KillaCycle team posing with their creation.

The KillaCycle is crazy-fast: it can do 0-60 mph in under a second, and has a top speed of around 170 mph. The total weight of the bike is about 653 pounds. At maximum acceleration, the KillaCycle generates 2.89 G of force - that’s almost three times free fall. The electric charger for this beast puts out 12 kW of power.

Some other interesting KillaCycle facts:

• Is the quickest and most powerful electric motorcycle in the world.
• Has since 1999 continuously set and broken its own world records.
• Has made the fastest (mph) and quickest (ET) 1/4 mile pass ever made by any electric vehicle of any kind (7.824 s @ 168 mph, Pomona, November 2007). No other electric vehicle of any kind, past or present, has ever gone this fast or this quick in the 1/4 mile.
• Has been the world’s fastest (mph) electric powered vehicle of any kind (mph) in 1/4 mile drag racing since August 2000
• Was the first electric vehicle to break the 8 seconds barrier in drag racing (November 2007)
• Was the first electric powered vehicle of any kind to go over 150 mph in a 1/4 mile (August 2000).

Driver Scotty Pollacheck with the KillaCycle

For more information about the KillaCycle, visit the official KillaCycle Website.

Check out this video of the KillaCycle setting the 168 mph world record at last years AHDRA:

The KillaCycle also seems to live up to it’s name - watch this video of the KillaCycle almost claiming inventor Bill Dubé’s life: