Swedish Biker Babe Does Electric Motorcycles

Nov 23

Written by: Aaron Turpen   5,453 views    

Published on November 23rd, 2008 in Electric Motorcycles, Featured

Eva Hakansson

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.

Eva Hakansson

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.

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6 Responses to “Swedish Biker Babe Does Electric Motorcycles”

  1. bewlaybrutha said on November 23rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    “babe”?? not bloody likely

  2. Sebastian Schepis said on November 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    Speak for yourself buddy, I happen to think that Eva’s beautiful and talented.

  3. motorbike batteries said on November 25th, 2008 at 5:19 am

    wow, looks like eva is at the cutting edge on these bikes. Best to keep an eye on her then. and i want one of these btw, or maybe the killacycle, or maybe the…

  4. mrtobo said on November 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    the term “babe” is an insult to her intelligence, person, and gender.

  5. Aaron Turpen said on November 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    Oh, ya, better not be politically incorrect here! The term “biker” might also be construed as negative or demeaning, since that word is associated with evil gangs. Ooo, Swedish is a bad word too, since it could mean she’s “neutral” in all things, which she may not be. Oh, and what about those electric motorcycles, which may prefer the term “electron-enhanced” instead?

  6. Sebastian Schepis said on December 1st, 2008 at 1:00 am

    @mrtobo - in response to your comment, please check out the following link:

    http://www.evahakansson.se/#category5

    ’nuff said. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

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