
Chapter 44
Solar Bicycles, Mercedes,
Handcuffs—PlusEnergy Buildings
Gallus Cadonau
Swiss Solar Agency, Waltensburg/Zurich, Switzerland
44.1 A Worldwide Unique Solar Decision: Tour de Sol
44.1.1 CO
2
-Free Hotel Ucliva in the Swiss Alps: 1st Solarcar
Race of the World
On October 27th, 1984, a worldwide unique decision was taken in
the CO
2
-free, ecological Hotel Ucliva in Waltensburg, approximately
100 km north-west of St. Moritz in the south-eastern part of
Grisons/Switzerland. In 1985, the world’s first solarcar race, the
Tour de Sol, shall take place. With a solarcar race from the Lake of
Constance to the Lake of Geneva, the power of solar energy shall
be