What could be hotter than a Swedish blond biker babe? How about one who does electric conversions of those motorcycles? Ooooh ya!
Meet Eva Hakansson and her Electrocat. She’s self-described as a “hardcore EV geek.” She built Electrocat with her father, Sven, and it’s the first documented street-legal electric motorcycle in Sweden. The bike started life as a 1990 Cagiva Freccia C12R, but now it’s all Eva’d out.
The motor, batteries (lithium-ion phosphate cells), and controller are all housed where the big motor and fuel tank on this bike used to be. The bike has a 50 mile range when averaging 44mph. How fast will it go? She can’t legally say that, since its top speed is illegal in Sweden. Really.
That’s not all, though. The father-daughter team also was instrumental in the record-breaking KillaCycle, which recently broke the world’s record for fastest electric vehicle at 168mph. Incidentally, that’s the fastest drag-racing motorcycle record too. Nice!
Find out more about Eva by heading over to her blog.
Tags: electric motorcycle, electrocat, eva hakansson, Featured, killacycle
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