The Solar Impulse team has announced that its round-the-world trip will be delayed until 2016, after batteries overheated during the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii.
The Solar Impulse 2 suffered the damage during the first ascent of the record-breaking flight after the plane’s lithium batteries overheated due to “over insulation of the gondolas”, the team said in an announcement. Temperatures remained high for the majority of the flight that lasted for 4 days, 21 hours and 52 minutes covering a…
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