After 3 years of waiting in anticipation, Green Envy finally managed to make its debut run at Lake Gairdner (Australia) during Speed Week 2023.
(Photo: builder and rider Eva Håkansson with Green Envy at Lake Gairdner in 2023)
As some may know, Eva is a strong advocate for STEM education and has featured previously in publications like STEM Women Magazine:
https://www.stemmagazine.com/swNOV18/7C19FF261A6146851BB8188846172C5E/swNOV18.pdf
Green Envy is a battery powered streamliner motorcycle designed and built to become the worlds fasted motorcycle. It was built in around 6 months ready for its debut in 2020 but due to the pandemic and bad weather it has had to remain in storage up until now. Even this year bad weather stopped play for 2 days out of 5 limiting the number of runs to only 4. Even so, 178MPH was recorded during the licensing runs.
(The sort of speeding ticket you don't mind being presented with.)
I've been following the progress for a number of years now and it has been fascinating. It is like many element14 projects here but perhaps with a little bit more horsepower in the electric motors.
Just about every aspect of the build has been openly shared on-line which could make for a great STEM type study.
