The team determined to build the world’s fastest electric drag bike is to use two motors capable of producing the equivalent of 750bhp.
The Fast Charge bike is the brainchild of Phil Edwards, owner of Weald Technology Ltd. He is a designer, mechanical engineer and manufacturing expert working on a number of special projects relating to electric vehicles.
The project was launched in 2011 after an Edwards machine set a UK record for electric bike drag racing. It ran at the Alternative Energy Racing day at Santa Pod in May of that year and smashed the previous record of 14.99 seconds for a standing start quarter-mile (held by Kingston University) with a best time of 14.124 seconds.
When Kingston University re-captured the UK record in September 2011 at the Brighton Speed Trials, the lure proved irresistible for Edwards. This time, though, he assembled a team to build a bike capable of setting a world record.
American electric drag-bikes are running the quarter-mile in around seven seconds at speeds of 200mph, and that’s what the challenge is all about… to be the quickest in the world.
The original bike will be on display at the Kent Manufacturing Expo at the Kent County Showground (Detling) on 7 October and the new bike will be shown at the Energy Efficient Motorsport Conference at the NEC in January.