Solar Impulse Team

The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi.

The Solar Impulse 2 team hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi.

The team behind the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane on Tuesday said it needed an additional 20 million euros ($22 million) to complete a historic round-the-world flight, after battery damage grounded it for months.

A solar-powered plane halfway through an attempt to circle the globe will be grounded in Hawaii for at least nine months because of battery damage sustained during its record 118-hour flight to Oahu from Japan, the project team said on Wednesday.

Solar Impulse 2 is not expected to take off on the next leg of its journey until late April or early May 2016, the team said.

A solar-powered plane that has been trapped in Japan for three weeks by the rainy season is set to take off for Hawaii early Wednesday, the team said.

A solar-powered plane that got stuck in Japan during an attempt to fly around the world is fixed and ready to go - as soon as the weather gets better, a spokeswoman said today.

Sunshine-powered Solar Impulse 2, which has made an impromptu stop in Japan on its way around the world, was under cover in its mobile hangar Wednesday as the team waited out the weather before heading to Hawaii.

After several delays, as the world's first solar plane finally took off from Ahmedabad for Varanasi - the only stretch in India it will fly - the team that was to receive it in the temple town was still stuck in Ahmedabad.

Two Swiss pilots will attempt to take their solar-powered aircraft around the globe, to demonstrate the promise of clean energy and would stop over at India also, among various countries, during the flight.

The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi.

The Solar Impulse 2 team hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi.

The team behind the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane on Tuesday said it needed an additional 20 million euros ($22 million) to complete a historic round-the-world flight, after battery damage grounded it for months.

A solar-powered plane halfway through an attempt to circle the globe will be grounded in Hawaii for at least nine months because of battery damage sustained during its record 118-hour flight to Oahu from Japan, the project team said on Wednesday.

Solar Impulse 2 is not expected to take off on the next leg of its journey until late April or early May 2016, the team said.

A solar-powered plane that has been trapped in Japan for three weeks by the rainy season is set to take off for Hawaii early Wednesday, the team said.

A solar-powered plane that got stuck in Japan during an attempt to fly around the world is fixed and ready to go - as soon as the weather gets better, a spokeswoman said today.

Sunshine-powered Solar Impulse 2, which has made an impromptu stop in Japan on its way around the world, was under cover in its mobile hangar Wednesday as the team waited out the weather before heading to Hawaii.

After several delays, as the world's first solar plane finally took off from Ahmedabad for Varanasi - the only stretch in India it will fly - the team that was to receive it in the temple town was still stuck in Ahmedabad.

Two Swiss pilots will attempt to take their solar-powered aircraft around the globe, to demonstrate the promise of clean energy and would stop over at India also, among various countries, during the flight.