"My vision is a clean world, where everybody is using clean energy”. Guy Nègre´s dream seems to come true in the future. The French engine designer wants to supply the whole world with the cheapest commodity in the world – compressed air.
AIR! Can you imagine?
Ok, the idea ist not completely new. Already in 1860 compressed air was used for huge drills to build up a tunnel between France and Italy.
While in Europe they still working and testing on prototyps, India kicks it off.
Last year India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors, announced to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. This summer about 6000 Air Cars are scheduled to hit the streets in India.

The Air Car uses a motor powered by compressed air. The uniqueness about the so called City Cat is its claim to offer zero emissions at the tailpipe without batteries or hydrogen fuel. Just to make it clear: Zero (0!) emissions. Even a dog has more emissions at the “pipeline”!The Air Cars can be refueled at “Air Stations”. Filling up the car’s carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air takes about two minutes and costs only around $2 (!). Ok, in India that almost a monthly salary, but for us it`s like a can of beer. With a speed about 68 mph the City Cats have a range of 125 miles.
Deals have been signed to bring the Air Cars to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa.
So, is the CATvolution really taking over and saving the world from a climate catastrophe?! Or is it just a drop in a bucket and should we rather banish cows from the grassland?
Watch a Video about the Air Car hereImages: hybridarenews.org

In the last episode from our solartaxi tour, we get to see how innovative and forward thinking the Indians and their Governments are about their future. We meet Dr Gon Chaudhiri, the Secretary for Power in the Government of West Bengal. We also go on a tour of the “Journey to the Sun” park, where children (and adults) are able to learn about solar power, bio-fuels and renewable energy. I will be in Bali next with the solar taxi, so stay tuned.Watch the last leg of our adventure.

Times can become quit dangerous for solartaxi pioneer
Louis Palmer and his solar powered vehicle on our trip through India. The Bihar region proves too dangerous to cross, as is Nepal for political reasons, and the South has bad driving conditions. We come up with a novel way to get across the troubled hot spot. This video also features some magnificent scenes of the dramatic Ganges and the life that goes on around it.Watch Episode 5.

While the solartaxi and our team have to deal with many dangers on our travels, such as political strife, wars and disease, nothing can be as dangerous as the Indian “Holy Cow”. Louis shows us his in-genius invention to deter the cow and other traffic hazards, and I get an unexpected go at the sliding driving wheel!Watch more of Club of Pioneers Erik's solartaxi trip across India with pioneer Louis Palmer .

Also, if you have any questions you want to ask me- just do it by emailing redaktion@clubofpioneers.com
I will post the answers on my blog as soon as I can.

Even diseases can't stop the crew of the solartaxi from driving around the world! In this video you still can see the marks of the nasty disease that worked its way through our stomachs. We, the crew, finally got back on our feet to introduce some rough technical features of the solar taxi for those who just tuned in - also giving you a short history of when and how the idea of the solartaxi started...

12 037 kilometres into the journey of the solartaxi and it’s been anything but boring. Challenges pop up on a daily basis. Watch to see why the solartaxi was not allowed to enter the site of the Taj Mahal and what one needs in case of a solar breakdown.

If you want to know more about the solartaxi and our travels, stay tuned. The next video will be up shortly!!!Also, if you have any questions you want to ask - just do it at redaktion@clubofpioneers.comI will post the answers on my blog as soon as I can.

Dr. Pachauri, the latest Nobel prize winner, the Swiss president driving in the solartaxi – all in India and all in just one week! Sounds impossible - but it isn’t if you are on tour with Louis Palmer, the Swiss adventurer and driver of the solartaxi.
Palmer is on his way to making his dream come true: to be the first to travel around the world using only solar power as his fuel. With his solartaxi, he has already journeyed from Lucerne through Germany, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Dubai and onto India – where I met him and joined him on his trip to document his adventures for Club of Pioneers.Over the next few weeks I will send back videos documenting our travels, giving you a taste of what it feels like to be on a pioneering, 100 percent sustainable mission, meeting different cultures and fascinating people every day. Here is my first episode featuring none other than Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Nobel prize winner and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change!!!
If you want to know more about the solartaxi and our travels, stay tuned. The next video will be up shortly!!!Also, if you have any questions you want to ask - just do it at redaktion@clubofpioneers.comI will post the answers on my blog as soon as I can.