"Solar taxi" pulls into Ann Arbor

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Source: The Ann Arbor News

Vehicles usually use extra energy to pull trailers but one car that recently stopped in Ann Arbor depends on its solar trailer to give it the energy to go.

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For Louis Palmer, traveling around the world in a solar car is "the experience of a lifetime."

Palmer, of Lucerne, Switzerland, rolled into the parking lot of the Whole Foods Market on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor on Thursday afternoon in his two-passenger all-electric "solar taxi." The taxi was pulling a 16-foot-long trailer covered with 65 square feet of solar cells to supply power.

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