领先的电力和自动化技术公司ABB很荣幸能陪伴太阳能冲动及其机组人员在飞机周围的飞机上，只有由太阳的能源提供动力。
总部位于瑞士的太阳能冲动宣布将在2月下旬至3月初在阿布扎比开始其历史性飞行。2014年，ABB和太阳能冲动成立了创新和技术联盟，以促进减少资源消耗和增加可再生能源的使用的共同愿景。
ABB首席执行官Ulrich Spiesshofer说：“太阳能冲动将激发新一代，采用创新和技术来解决地球的最大挑战。”“ ABB将与太阳能冲动团队每一英里的旅程与。”
Three ABB engineers have joined the Solar Impulse team, where they are contributing expertise and passion. Their work includes improving control systems for ground operations, enhancing the charging electronics for the plane’s battery systems, and resolving obstacles that emerge along the route.
On the plane’s 40,000-kilometer route, pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg will share duties as the aircraft stops in cities including Muscat, Oman; Varanasi and Ahmedabad in India; Chongqing and Nanjing in China; and Phoenix, Arizona in the U.S. It will also stop in Europe or North Africa.
任务于2015年中期在阿布扎比结束之前的挑战之一将是从中国到达夏威夷的五天和夜晚的一次不间断的飞行。这架飞机由17,248个太阳能电池提供动力，每天将高于珠穆朗玛峰的飙升，同时为电池充满电，以便在夜间保持高空。
ABB’s enthusiasm for Solar Impulse stems not merely from shared faith in innovation and technology, but also from the company’s credo: “Power and productivity for a better world.” Solar Impulse’s ethos mirrors ABB’s aspirations of helping boost operational efficiency, reduce resource use, enable sustainable transportation and increase penetration of clean, renewable energy.
作为世界第二大太阳能逆变器的供应商，也是风能行业最大的供应商之一，ABB是将可再生能源有效地整合到电力网格中的领导者。ABB正在帮助在欧洲建立最全面的电动汽车快速充电网络，并正在为中国电动汽车的全球最大的快速充电器网络提供关键设备。
皮卡德（Piccard）表示，增加了ABB的领先技术，可以从可再生项目以及提高效率的能源发电，从而使太阳能Impulse的团队增强了努力的能力，可以证明创新和清洁技术的力量。
瑞士航空先驱Piccard说：“这就是世界所需要的。
如果nce 2010, Piccard, the project’s chairman, and Borschberg, its chief executive officer, have combined to set eight international aviation records including for duration, altitude and distance flown as they crossed Europe, North Africa and the United States in a prototype plane powered only by the sun.
ABB salutes and shares this vision as the journey’s next step kindles new interest in aeronautics, clean technology and renewable energy. “Together, we need to run the world without consuming the earth,” ABB’s Spiesshofer said. “In very simple terms, that’s what we stand for.”
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