About this project
Baptiste & Samuel (France) took part in The Sun Trip 2021, the long-distance adventure on solar-powered bikes held since 2013.
The machine is a solar trike.
A duo from the solar company Urbasolar: Baptiste Costes, 38, an engineer who has worked in photovoltaics for almost ten years and travelled in Russia, Kazakhstan, Greenland and Kyrgyzstan, and his cousin Samuel Certain-Chambault, 40, a mountaineer, climber and paraglider with expeditions in the Andes and Greenland behind him.
Technical data
| Name | Baptiste & Samuel |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Sun Trip | The Sun Trip 2021 |
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The details on this page are based on the rider’s profile on The Sun Trip website.
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