News & Events
Solar Taxi visits CITRIS at Berkeley
| Themes | Energy and the Environment, Intelligent Infrastructure |
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| Campuses | UC Berkeley |
- July 14, 2008: 10:30am - 11:30am
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
For the first time in history, a solar-powered car is driving around the world without any carbon emissions. Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer is taking a small blue environmentally-friendly taxi around the world. The solar-electric two-seat taxi with attached trailer is an attempt
to call attention to global warming while providing solutions for oil
independency.
With a full component of batteries, the Solar Taxi has an autonomy of
almost 200 miles. With additional energy from the solar cells on a
sunny day, it can travel almost
260 miles. The vehicle has a top speed of 60 miles an hour and needs no gasoline at all.
By the time the Solar Taxi travels the Earth, it will have been to 40
different countries upon five continents, including the United States.
COME WIN A CHANCE TO RIDE IN THE SOLAR TAXI!
Read more about this project at http://www.solartaxi.com/mission/.
(click to enlarge smaller photos)
Louis Palmer with his globe-trotting solar taxi.
Louis Palmer and team. Left to right are: Louis Palmer, Erik Schmidt, Frank Loacker, Heinz Gubler, and Thomas Gottschalk.
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