Louis Palmer’s global tour in a solar powered vehicle

Louis Palmer from switzerland wanted the solar taxi to be the new way of mobility in cities.Louis Palmer wanted to fill the the gap between a car and a motorcycle with the solar taxi.He set off on a world tour in his solar powered vehicle on 3 July 2007.The tour’s mission was to spread knowledge about the dangers of global warming and to demonstrate to the world that solutions are available to combat global warming.He travelled across Mumbai,New Delhi and Kolkata during his world journey. He will be reaching Wangerei New zealand on 11 Jan 2008.

Louis Palmer and his solar taxi:

The solar taxi has zero CO2 emission.It was a childhood dream of Louis palmer.When he was 14 years old(in 1986) he dreamed of driving around the world with a solar powered car.
Louis Palmer said:

Between 1994 and 2001, when I travelled through five continents, I experienced the first signs of global warming in front of my eyes: In Africa, there were droughts like never seen before. In South America the rain was falling at an all-time high. In Afghanistan, dryness and hunger prevailed like at no time before.

Thereupon I decided, not to wait 20 more years, until anyone creates a car, which doesn’t emit any CO2. I decided to build it on my own. With this round-the-world-trip, I’d like to demonstrate, that there are solutions against global warming. As a well travelled man and a teacher, I didn’t have any clue, how to construct such a solar vehicle, of course. Due to the help of the Technical University Lucerne, the HTA Lucerne, four students started to build a solar vehicle, which was supposed to survive a world trip. Their names were Tobias Berchtold, Michael Fischer, Martin Kneubühler and Beat Schmid.

Carbon facts:

4,874,940,000 tons of crude oil are used each year. With constant extraction, the ressources will be exhausted in 41 years.

2,689,000,000 m³ of natural gas are extracted each year. With constant extraction, the gas will be exhausted in 65 years.

About 4,000,000,000 tons coal are used for producing 40% of the worldwide power requirement. The coal ressources will be exhausted in 230 years.

Louis Palmer is definitely a man with a mission.Techblissonline Dot Com wishes him all success in his journey.Don’t you think this technology is very desirable and needs support from governments across the world.Let the manufacturers build cheaper solar cars and let the governments not continue to look at making money by selling petrol/oil/natural gas to its people.Keep track of Louis Palmer and cheer him at Solartaxi Dot Com

Louis Palmer in India during his world tour:

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