Catavolt Electric bike some History and records

CATAVOLT WIN FIRST EVER AUSTRALIAN ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP
Newcastle’s Team Catavolt is proud to announce that they are the outright winners of the first Electric motorcycle championship to be conducted in Australia 2011.
Battle
Jason Morris (Catavolt) & Daniel Sailer (Ripperton)
Picture by Tony Castley.

March 2010 Catavolt reaches 177kph at lake Gairdner

Wed, 03/04/2009 - 05:59 — Andy Marsh www.evmotorcycle.org

Catavolt 2010

Catavolt sets the record

On Friday 12th March 2010 Team Catavolt set the World Record for a Modified Partial Streamlined Electric Motorcycle and the Australian Land Speed Record for an Electric Vehicle on the Australian Salt Lake event, Speed Week 2010.

The Catavolt bike saw speeds of 115kph during testing on a 72V system but reached 177kph when run at 144V. Not bad for a forklift motor running at six times its rated voltage limit! The 48V Nissan electric forklift motor was expertly rewound to 24V (yes 24 volts) by Kenshaw Electrical at Newcastle. Under load the Odyssey 925 lead acid batteries fed the Curtis Controller with the 400 amps required to propel the bike and rider to 177kph.