Volkswagen debuted a very futuristic concept Hover Car in China. The donut shaped two passenger vehicle doesn't have any wheels because it flies above the ground! The interesting looking vehicle was the result of a contest to design what a car of the future will look like. The Hover Car uses electronmagnetic(think monorails) to float along roads and a joystick is used to allow the car to move forward, backward and from side to side. It can even spin in place! The zero emissions car may be floating down the roads one day in the not to distant future.

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Swiss Engineer Raphael Domjan and three others have succeeded in going around the world in 585 aboard a boat using energy only from the sun. The 37,294 mile journey began in Monaco, in 2010, and circumnavigated the earth to get the most possible sunlight. Called the MS Turanor Planet Solar, it is the world's largest solar-powered catamaran, having 38,000 solar panels. The catamaran docked on April 27th, 2012 having visited 28 countries along the way. Several world records were made with the trip including the longest journey made by a solar powered boat and the first solar powered boat to circumnavigate the earth. The name,Turanor, means "powered by the sun" and comes from the J.R.R. Tolkien book, The Lord of the Rings.