Car News: Solar car completes 1st ever round-the-world trip

Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, greets journalists as he arrives in a solar taxi to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, Thursday,

Dec 4, 2008. The solar vehicle, built by Louis Palmer from Switzerland with the help of Swiss scientists and driven by Palmer has traveled around the world setting a world record of 52,000 km, or 32,300 miles through 38 countries using only solar energy. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)


Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer arrives with his solartaxi in Hamburg November 21, 2008. Palmer arrived in Hamburg for a stopover from his journey around the world which he started in Lucerne, Switzerland, in July 2007. The solartaxi, which can travel at a maximum speed of 90 km/h (55 mph) on its three wheels, is powered 100 percent by solar energy obtained through the vehicle, which includes a trailer on the back with solar cells. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY)
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