Solar Impulse 2 starts historic round-the-world flight in March

26 Jan 2015 • engadget.com

If solar-powered-anything doesn’t sound thrilling, let’s put things in scale: the 72m (236 foot) aircraft is wider than a Boeing 747, but at 2,300 kilograms (5,000 pounds) weighs less than an SUV.

Cool. I want one.

Suffice to say, an aircraft that light won’t be terribly comfortable for pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, who will often fly for days at a time in an unheated, unpressurized cockpit.

Uh. Nevermind. I think I’ll keep my SUV with heated interior and heated seats.