The Eva Hakansson Story – in her own words!

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During NZ Tech Week in May, EVolocity partnered with Venture Taranaki, Ara Ake and Kiwifil, to bring one of the world’s greatest electric race bike designers to Taranaki.

Eva Hakansson became the fastest woman motorcycle rider on Earth at 434 km/h in 2014, on Killajoule, an electric motorcycle she built herself in her backyard garage. Eva relocated from the mile high city of Denver, Colorado, USA, to Auckland, New Zealand at the bottom of the planet in 2017 and now her goal is to focus on racing its successor “Green Envy” in 2021.

But if you think this girl is chasing the adrenaline kick from flying across the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats think again. Eva is a hardcore mechanical engineer – she’s in her element in the workshop and she feels that welding is a superhero power. Her mission is to show that eco-friendly is far from boring. She readily admits that her racing is really just “eco-activism in disguise” and she uses the unusual channel of high-speed racing to open people’s eyes and minds for sustainable technology. She also wants to inspire kids to study STEM and to build amazing things with their hands.

Hear Eva’s story, in her own words, at New Plymouth Girls High School in this video!

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