{"id":8328,"date":"2013-10-08T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2013-10-08T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T19:56:00","slug":"eva-and-bill-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eva-and-bill-do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva and Bill Do It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eva Hakansson and Bill Dube\u2019 are a husband-and-wife team with a deeply-felt need for speed. Bill races<a href=\"http:\/\/killacycleracing.com\/\"> Killacycle<\/a>, only recently unseated as the fastest electric drag racing motorcycle in the world, capable of seven-second, 170 mph quarter-mile times and speeds. His zero-to-60 time is under one second, somewhat like an aircraft carrier launch in terms of acceleration and the accompanying forces.<\/p>\n<p>Eva now holds the record for the world\u2019s fastest electric sidecar motorcycle \u2013 beating her previous record on the Bonneville Salt Flats. A sidecar in this case is a two-wheeled, streamlined two-wheeler with an outrigger, but not a rider, as on a traditional sidecar.<\/p>\n<p>In-cockpit videos show the finesse with which Eva keeps Killajoule on the straight and narrow with the only indicators of speed being the course markers flicking by.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KillaJoule, World&#039;s Fastest Electric Sidecar Motorcyle:Bonneville Stories\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjaOiO0fkiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here you can enjoy their light-hearted banter about the very serious endeavors in which they invest their considerable intellects and skills.<\/p>\n<p>Eva builds the battery packs for their vehicles, including the one shown in the short video below. What takes a little over 40 seconds in the video consumes over an hour of exacting work in real time. As the notes to the video explain, there are still 23 more modules to go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KillaJoule Battery Pack Timelapse\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQkf7jN2D1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eva and Bill work closely with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a123systems.com\/\">A123 batteries<\/a> and wanted to use \u201cA123\u201d as Killajoule\u2019s racing number. Organizers did not allow characters other than numbers, so the sleek machine races as \u201c123.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8329\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Killajoule-with-students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8329\" alt=\"Eva talks with over 100 Salt Lake City area elementary students about engineering, racing and working hard in school\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Killajoule-with-students-528x396.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Killajoule-with-students-528x396.jpg 528w, http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Killajoule-with-students-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Killajoule-with-students.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva talks with over 100 Salt Lake City area elementary students about engineering, racing and working hard in school<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eva is also a big favorite with students of all ages, letting them know that she owes her exciting life to her abilities with mathematics, science and technology \u2013 then encouraging them to work hard in school. Who knows what dreams she and Bill have inspired in young minds?<\/p>\n<p>It should also inspire those working to achieve electric aviation, and all research and development in any vehicular field helps bring that ideal closer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Feva-and-bill-do-it-again%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva Hakansson and Bill Dube\u2019 are a husband-and-wife team with a deeply-felt need for speed. Bill races Killacycle, only recently unseated as the fastest electric drag racing motorcycle in the world, capable of seven-second, 170 mph quarter-mile times and speeds. 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