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Monday, April 4th, 2011

Motor Age magazine cover!


Monday, January 31st, 2011

Watch NOVA “Making Stuff: Cleaner” Feb 2nd!

The NOVA show is going to air on PBS this Wednesday evening at 8 PM MST. They will include footage of the KillaCycle at Bandimere Speedway and of me and Eva in our home shop. It was fun to work with David Pogue and the film crew, so that should result in an entertaining segment.

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Thursday, December 16th, 2010

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

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 […]

Monday, July 26th, 2010

KillaCycle Racing now on FaceBook

It was inevitable…..
Eva did a pretty nice job. Check it out:
KillaCycle Racing FaceBook page

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

PBS Nova films the KillaCycle at Bandimere

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.

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 […]

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

New Zealand Success

The KillaCycle New Zealand Tour was a huge success! We not only demonstrated that electrics can be fast and sexy, the tour also brought together EV people from all over NZ. An “EV movement” seems to already have started in NZ in the surge of the tour.

Picture: Meremere dragway in Auckland. Most of […]

Monday, December 14th, 2009

KillaCycle 1/9th Scale Model Electric Motorcycle SOLD! on Ebay

SOLD! Rider’s Discount, the folks that provide the top quality helmets, gloves, boots, back protectors, etc. for Scotty and Eva, won the bid. Our loyal fans bid it up and gave a welcome boost for Eva’s electric land speed program.
Please visit Rider’s Discount if you are shopping for motorcycle gear and show your […]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The fastest EV on the dragstrip, AGAIN! 7.864 @169 MPH

Scotty Pollacheck on the KillaCycle set the overall world record for an electric vehicle in the 1/4 mile, once again, while Eva Hakansson on her ElectroCat set the 48 volt division street-legal electric motorcycle record. What a perfect birthday present for me at Bandimere Speedway.
Here is a terrific video by Steve Ciciora from this weekend […]

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Get your own KillaCycle Apparel!

We have filled up the KillaCycle web store with brand new KillaCycle shirts, hats, posters and postcards!
By supporting the KillaCycle team YOU will make the world’s quickest and fastest electric motorcycle even FASTER!
SPECIAL OFFER
You get a signed KillaCycle postcard with every order.
Click HERE to go to the KillaCycle Web store

Team Apparel

Friday, October 24th, 2008

New World Record at Bandimere 7.890 second (also 174 MPH!)

The KillaCycle®, ridden by Scotty Pollacheck, made drag racing history AGAIN at Bandimere Speedway October 23rd, 2008. 7.89 seconds @ 168 MPH is a new official National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) record and makes KillaCycle® the world’s quickest electric vehicle of any kind in the quarter mile! This was the very last run down […]