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Eva Håkansson

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Swedish mechanical engineer, lecturer at the University of Auckland and world's fastest woman on an electric motorcycle

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According to Wikipedia, Eva Håkansson is a Swedish mechanical engineer and lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 2014 she became the world's fastest woman on an electric motorbike. Early life and education Håkansson grew up in Sweden. She studied Business Administration and Environmental Science at Mälardalen University College. Her father, Sven Håkansson, used to build motorcycles and her mother was the family mechanic. In 2007 she converted a motorcycle into an electronic bike with her father and the ElectroCat became the first registered e-bike in Sweden. In 2007, whilst writing a book about motorcycles and electric vehicles, she called Bill Dube to ask for the permissions to use a photograph of his electric bike. She became part of the team that created the KillaCycle, and married the creator Bill Dubé eighteen months later. In 2010 she delivered a TEDx talk at the University of Denver, where she discussed environmentally friendly ways to race quickly. She completed a PhD in corrosion at the University of Denver in 2016.

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