Louis Palmer was born in Budapest, Hungary. He came to Switzerland with his parents when he was 16 months old, where he grew up and later visited gymnasium and the teacher training school.

Since he graduated in 1993, he regularly gives up his ordinary life and finishes his job as a teacher and then travels to see world with his own eyes. His first journey led him to Africa, where he crossed the continent from Kenya to Cape Town by bicycle, crosssing some of the greatest National Parks in the world. But seeing drought and climate change changed his vision of a peaceful world.

In 1996 he started a journey across the United States with an ultralight airplane. For this flight he won the prize for the "most outstanding flight of the year" by the American Ultralight Association, USUA.

In 1998 he wanted to see the condition of the Brazilian rainforest and then crossed South America, from Argentina to Manaus, by the smallest airplane that ever crossed South America.

In 1999 he was a tour observer at the World Solar Challenge in Australia.

In 2001 he crossed Asia by car, from his home town Lucerne all the way to Nepal and back. On the way home, he visited Afghanistan.

In 2002 he went back to Afghanistan for a summer, and in 2003 he led a tourist group across Afghanistan to raise money for the reconstruction of the Arkandi School.

In 2004 he started the solartaxi project. Since his childhod he wanted to go around the world without polluting and destroying planet Earth with fossil fuels. With the help of four different Swiss universities he managed to build the car, find supporters and sponsors and take off for a 18 month tour across 38 countries. He wanted to show to the world: Yes, we can change from fossil fuels to renewable energies! These new technologies are affordable, reliable and ecological!