Updated: KillaCycle is no longer at Forney. [See the KillaCycle at the Forney Museum in Denver, Colorado! ]

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UPDATE: The KillaCycle is no longer at the Forney Museum, Denver. We had the honor to have the KillaCycle displayed that the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles during 2022. After that, it was shipped to its new home country New Zealand, where we (Bill & Eva) now reside.
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Taking the risk of sounding a bit braggy, we have to admit that the KillaCycle is one of the most iconic electric racing vehicles in the history. It set countless of records on the 1/4 mile dragstrip, and was the first electric vehicle in the 10s, 9s, 8s, and 7s, with an all time best ET of 7.62 seconds and a top speed of 174 mph (280 km/h).

For almost a decade, the KillaCycle dominated the world of electric drag racing. The KillaCycle was officially retired 2014 to make room for our land racing effort, which you can follow here: www.GreenEnvyRacing.com and make sure to “like” us on www.facebook.com/EvaHakanssonRacing for the latest news directly in your feed.

If you never had a chance to see the KillaCycle in person, you can now see at the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, Colorado, USA. It will be on display at least through the middle of 2020, perhaps longer.

The Forney Museum is located on 4303 Brighton Blvd Denver, CO 80216, and is opened every day.

Hours and admission:
Monday-Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 12pm to 5pm

Admission Rates:
Adults……………$12.00
Seniors(65+)…..$10.00
Children(3-12)…$6.00
Children under 3..Free

Museum parking is free.

Learn more at: https://www.forneymuseum.org/

Getting ready for the land speed racing season!

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The land speed motorcycle KillaJoule is the new star in the “Killa” family after the retirement of the KillaCycle dragbike.
With the 2015 racing season completely rained out, we are hoping for a much better year this time. Eva will once again be pushing KillaJoule to the limits in hopes of a new record at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials in August.

We’ve been working hard all year getting ready for the race season. We have also two new websites: www.evahakanssonracing.com that contains anything you want to know about Eva and the KillaJoule, and www.HakanssonDube.com where you can learn everything about us.

We would like to thank our friends at Parts Giant and Arai Helmets for the help along the journey!

New websites for the KillaCycle-KillaJoule racing team!

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www.HakanssonDube.com and www.EvaHakanssonRacing.com

If you have previously followed either me (Bill Dube’) here or my wife Eva HÃ¥kansson on www.EvaHakansson.se, you will now find us both under the same domain at www.HakanssonDube.com.

If you are specifically interested in our new land speed racing motorcycle the “KillaJoule”, check out Eva’s website www.EvaHakanssonRacing.com.

www.killacycle.com and www.evahakansson.se will remain online as archives, but will not be updated anymore.

You will always find the latest news in social media:
www.facebook.com/KillaCycle (Note that you don’t have to be a Facebook member – just ignore the annoying prompt to log in.)
www.facebook.com/EvaHakanssonRacing
www.twitter.com/eva_hakansson
www.instagram.com/eva_hakansson

Flat out into the future!

// Eva & Bill

Zero to 100 mph in 6 sec. Drayson B12/69EV – the KillaCycle team designed and built the pack

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Video clip of testing of the Drayson GT race car B12/69EV at MIRA facility in England. (If you are in a hurry, start watching at 1:13 min)

This car clocked zero to 100 MPH in 6 seconds, with very conservative software limits in place for these initial tests.
Drayson has a lot planned for the B12/69EV GT car, so stay tuned…..

The KillaCycle team designed and constructed the battery pack for this vehicle. Mavizen put us together with Drayson and worked all the
logistics. Derek Barger pitched in to help with a portion of the fabrication on this huge pack made from A123Systems cells. Bill did most of the design work, while Eva did most of the fabrication work on the pack.

Some links to more information about the car and about Drayson Racing
http://www.draysonracing.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/DraysonRacing007

Mavizen: http://www.mavizen.com/

This pack uses the new upgraded version of the A123Systems 26650 M1 cells (Called the “M1B” model 26650, not to be confused with “B grade” cells.) In addition to the nifty black stripes printed on the end of the cells, they have more than 10% higher power output and about 10% more energy content in the same size cell. The M1B cells each weigh a touch more than the standard M1 cells.

Bill & Eva

It had to happen eventually. Shawn Lawless just took the top EV record.

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In racing, you never “own” a record, you just “borrow” it for awhile. The KillaCycle “borrowed” the top speed 1/4 mile record for an EV for 10 years continuously, and now, (hopefully briefly,) it is someone else’s turn.

Our feet are to the fire now. The top EV record in the 1/4 mile was just posted by Shawn Lawless on his 900+ HP “Rocket” bike piloted by the famous Larry McBride. They also bested our top MPH of 174 and they are the very first to exceed 175 mph with an EV on the drag strip.

Congratulations to Shawn and Larry McBride. They have worked hard and very much earned the honor of being the fastest EV on the drag strip.

It will be a few months before the weather allows drag racing locally. We are going to spend those months shaving weight from the KillaCycle, and adding just a bit more HP. ;-)

PBS Nova films the KillaCycle at Bandimere

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David Pogue in the pits

The KillaCycle crew spent the day with David Pogue and the PBS Nova film crew yesterday. (July 16th) They are doing a show about advanced battery technology.

Electric Burn-out

Until they actually saw the first run at Bandimere Speedway, they did not fully believe “Zero to 60 mph in less than one second.” The film crew was not prepared for the acceleration on the launch. After the first run, they said, “It was on the starting line…and then it was just GONE!”

The camera crew attached little mini-cams all over the KillaCycle (and the ElectroCat ). They got fantastic action footage. Since the KillaCycle is an all-out racing machine, we did not concern ourselves with AC magnetic shielding or trying to minimize stray fields like you would do on a street EV. (Like you would not add a muffler to a racing ICE machine.) Thus, there were some very weird distortions in some of the on-board video footage. Kind of like science fiction force-field looking effects. I hope they show these “force field” clips.

You can see more photos in the photo album here.

It was a great pleasure meeting and working with the Nova team.