October 2011

It’s not every day that you get to visit a world class solar car team in Australia. The Melbourne team Aurora invited CalSol to their facilities on Thursday to explore the workshop and get a close look at several generations of solar vehicles. Martin Brook, the Educational Outreach Leader, kindly spent the afternoon with eleven […]

A lot of people have been asking us to explain what exactly makes our car, Impulse, go. So Martin drew us a phenomenal comic about that very subject!

Okay, so Impulse isn’t a horse, but she sure is decorated, thanks to our sponsor, Signazon. Every decal on Impulse was printed and die-cut by Signazon, an e-commerce marketing company that supplies an immense variety of custom or predesigned banners, signs, window advertisements, and of course, car decals.

Dear supporters, We are so sorry that this blog post is coming up so late. Ever since the race was over, we continued working on miscellaneous logistical details to wrap up the trip and kiss Australia goodbye. On Saturday October 22nd, the team woke up to a thick layer of cloud over our head about

CalSol arrived in Adelaide on Saturday October 22 in the middle of the afternoon after completing 1809 km on solar power. WSC officials released provisional results for the 37 teams that participated in the week long challenge. We are very pleased to be ranked 20th among so many great solar car teams from around the

It looks like the team is out celebrating right now, so let’s do some Facebook stalking of Ryan to get an idea of what happened on the last race day.  Ryan says: Just left the port agusta checkpoint and we’re headed to Adelaide on solar power! The sun is so much nicer today (it still

G’day world, This is Ryan, currently distracted from operating telemetry in the chase car to write a blog post.  This is my first day operating telemetry from the chase vehicle, and unfortunately also the last day too.  Impulse is currently in the final stretch driving towards Port Agusta to hit the end of timing checkpoint, and with

CalSol drove through Alice Springs early this morning through some beautiful (annoying) hills with pleasant sunlight. Impulse had very little battery charge after our sprint to the outskirts of Alice Springs last night so we were very happy that the famous Australian sun could push us through sharp elevation changes. After leaving the bustling downtown

Our good member Ryan has been steadily uploading pictures to Facebook when he gets internet. Unfortunately not everyone has Ryan as a Facebook friend (tragic), but now everyone can see these photos of the team on their Australian adventure. See the full gallery after the break.

To carry on where yesterday’s blog post finished, the team left Tennant Creek with only thirty minutes left to race. As the team was preparing to leave the control stop, the Philippine team’s batteries caught on fire. By the time our team members saw what was happening they had already smothered the batteries with sand