Nearly 500 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the globe using nothing but renewable power, Swiss engineer Raphael Domjan and French sailor Gerard D’Abouville are preparing to repeat Elcano’s journey in an all-electric boat powered by the energy gathered by 470 square meters of solar panels. [More]
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