Chip Yates

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chip Yates
Occupation	Inventor
Date Of Birth	Feb 11, 1971(1971-02-11)
Age	53
Birthplace	Portsmouth
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Chip Yates Biography

Chip Yates is one of the most popular and richest Inventor who was born on February 11, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United Kingdom. Chip Yates (born February 11 1971 with the surname of William Morrison Yates III) is an American inventor and pioneer of electric vehicles most well-known for his risky record-setting feats with electric vehicles that he designed himself. He developed and built the world-record-breaking electric motorcycle SWIGZ that in 2011 was able to achieve over 200 MPH, which is eight official record-setting world speed land records. He also set four AMA National Championship Records, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb record and the Guinness Book of World Records title of “World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle”. It was described as “the world’s most powerful electric superbike” the motorbike is currently on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s exhibit , ‘Electric Revolution’, curated and curated by Paul d’Orleans.

The last act of Yates the electric superbike’s campaign was held in the Bonneville Salt Flats in the Utah desert, during the BUB FIM and AMA Speed Trials August 27-September 1st, 2011. The event was a success. Yates together with the team fought an unbroken chain as well as high-speed instability, and an accident that lasted 150 MPH into the mile marker to establish the official record for eight FIM World Landspeed Records, four AMA National Championship Records, and also the Guinness World Records title of “World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle”.

In February, 2011, Yates returned to Auto Club Speedway and announced his intention to set a professional level laptime fast enough to qualify the electric prototype motorcycle for an AMA Pro Daytona SportBike series event despite its claimed 585 pound curb weight. Yates’ best laptime from the gas versus electric race the month prior was 1:39.0, which would require a 3.12 second improvement to get down to an AMA qualifying laptime of 1:35.88. Yates was unable to close the gap, ending the test effort with a best laptime of 1:37.308 and top speed on the straightaway of 163.7 MPH, an improvement of 1.692 seconds over his previous best time, but still 1.428 seconds short of his AMA goal.

Although the electric motorcycle was completed in time to race the 2011 electric motorcycle schedule, the TTXGP and FIM e-Power series both adopted a new-for-2011 maximum weight rule that effectively excluded Yates’ motorcycle from competition based on a lower maximum allowable weight. In response, Yates entered his electric motorcycle in a WERA (Western Eastern Roadracing Association) gasoline roadrace event on January 9, 2011 at Auto Club Speedway in both the Heavyweight Twins Superbike (HWTSB) class, and the Heavyweight Twins Superstock (HWTSS) class. Due to the unproven nature of the electric motorcycle, Yates was required to start both races from the back of the grid. During the races, Yates rode past numerous gasoline-powered superbikes to finish 2nd place in HWTSS, and 3rd place in HWTSB with a top speed on the straightaway of 158 MPH. The act of beating gasoline motorcycles with a self- built electric motorcycle to two podium results was hailed by some members of the motorcycle and mainstream media as historically significant.

Yates also competed on gasoline-powered motorcycles on the international stage through his wild-card invitation as well as participation into the International Federation of Motocyclisme (FIM) World Superbike Championship race held in 2009. It was in Miller Motorsports Park near Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was also the only American to finish and qualify for at the top of the podium in 2009’s World Supersport Race.

Chip Yates Net Worth

Chip Yates is one of the richest Inventor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chip Yates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The family was born in Portsmouth Virginia, Yates spent his first years at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he showed an early interest in mechanics. At thirteen, he was able to disassemble and reassemble motorcycles. When he was fourteen, Yates was sent to Culver Military Academy which was a co-ed boarding institution located in Indiana where he completed the high-school education he needed. Yates later received an advanced degree from the School of Business Entrepreneurship in the University of Southern California where Yates was later employed as an adjunct professor. In 1997, Yates was appointed as the replacement for the automotive design expert Chip Foose at ASHA Corporation in which he developed and licensed an entire series of hydraulic control valves that were designed for the 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. He also started a new company named “SWIGZ(r)” to market his unique dual-chambered fitness bottles.

From 1999 to 2002 Yates participated from 1999 to 2002 in between 1999 and 2002, he competed in SCCA Club Rally and Pro-Rally Series using an 1989 Toyota MR2 that he built equipped with the 1.6 Liter supercharged engine. As of 2001, Yates took home the SCCA Southern Pacific (SOPAC) Group 5 (2-wheel drive class) Rally Championship. On January 7, 2007, aged 36 Yates began a motorcycle beginner’s track training course held located at Auto Club Speedway near Los Angeles, California. Yates was attracted to motorcycling, and earned enough points throughout the amateur road racing seasons 2007-2008 to make the transition to professional racing within 19 months after his initial experience on the track. In 2009 Yates took part at his AMA Pro Daytona SportBike category with telecast professional races on Auto Club Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Laguna Seca, and Heartland Park, before his season was cut short due to fractured pelvis that occurred in the course of a high-speed crash in AMA racing.

After the Auto Club Speedway gasoline versus electric race and AMA gasoline superbike laptime attempts, Yates entered the electric motorcycle in the Mojave Mile Shootout competition on April 10, 2011, setting an unofficial land speed world record of 190.6 MPH. He then entered the 89th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in June 26, 2011, setting the record for the most powerful motorcycle (240 horsepower) of any kind to enter the race in its 89-year history, and setting the official outright record for the fastest electric motorcycle to complete the hill climb, beating the previous record holder’s time by over four minutes.

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His exploits, in more ways than one, in pushing electric vehicle technology earned recognition as a “Pioneer of Aviation” from the State of California in the form of Assembly Resolution #1740, presented to Yates in Sacramento during Senate and Assembly sessions on August 30, 2012 He is also a noted public speaker, having presented several television shows and served as the first national spokesman for the Conrad Foundation, and has delivered a TEDx talk on his philosophy of innovation and risk.

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Chip Ranked on the list of most popular Inventor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Chip Yates celebrates birthday on February 11 of every year.

On October 3, 2013 Yates was named as the first ever Official National Spokesman for the Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge, which celebrates the life and entrepreneurial spirit of astronaut Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon. The program challenges students ages 13 – 18 to use science, technology, engineering and math skills along with creativity, collaboration and entrepreneurship to develop products and services to benefit humanity and address global sustainability. Nancy Conrad, widow of Astronaut Pete Conrad and the founder and chairman of the Conrad Foundation said, “It was Pete’s personal drive and entrepreneurial spirit that propelled him to embrace innovation to achieve his goals, walk on the moon and leave a legacy we are so proud to honor. Pete would have admired Chip’s tireless pursuit of innovative design.”