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Google and Solar Impulse are teaming up for what\’s being described as \”a high level partnership\” that will see the Silicon Valley-based Internet company become Solar Impulse\’s official Internet technology partner.
To mark the new deal, Solar Impulse will take their Google+ URL — http://www.google.com/+solarimpulse to new heights on the side of its Swiss Solar Impulse airplane.
The move is an important step in bringing Solar Impulse closer to its ultimate goal of flying around the world using only solar energy (2015).
Dr. Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, Co-Founders of Solar Impulse, said: \”This partnership is a unique occasion to promote mutually shared values like pioneering spirit, innovation, engineering excellence and clean technologies allowing to protect natural resources. With Google on board, our reach with the public, younger generations, media and political and business decision makers will be significantly enhanced.\”
The partnership also comes about after the successful collaboration between Google and Solar Impulse this past summer during the Across America Mission. Solar Impulse will continue to leverage its multimedia and online activities across various Google platforms including YouTube, Google+, Google Glass and Google Earth in order to better communicate with its supporters.
Google+ will be Solar Impulse\’s preferred social media channel and Google Hangouts — which will broadcast live during flight missions — will bring the public closer to the pilots.