The last three weeks has seen a whirlwind of activity from CalSol as dozens of us have pushed even harder than before, toiling away mornings and nights to finish all of our carbon fiber layups. Too many nights have the clocks turned to 1am just to be back at 9am that same day, but we …
CalSol has progressed massively since our last shell team update! At our previous check in we had only finished one of our 8 fiberglass molds, completed zero carbon fiber layups, and we had a long way ahead of us. Now every mold has been finished, brought to a perfect shine, and 2 of the 8 …
Every Saturday of every week about 15 or more team members find their way out to the Richmond Field Station working on the solar cars from dawn til dusk. Some members are welding, some sanding molds, some building our oven, some spraying, and some doing strategy calculations. But above all else, everyone is working tirelessly …
CalSol has been hard at work over our Winter Break touching up the designs on our shell, chassis, and suspension but in particular Sam Cohen and Parker Schuh on the Controls team have been working on creating a lightweight, carbon fiber steering wheel. To do this we first needed a 3D model of what we …
The Chabot Space and Science Center is having a grand re-opening of Bill Nye’s Climate Lab on November 17th. CalSol was extended an invitation to not only help staff the event, but also to bring Impulse and have it on display throughout the event! As kids come rolling into the facility they will get to …
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CalSol will be attending the BERC Symposium on October 18, 2012 to show off Impulse to the hundreds of people who have come to discuss the major energy issues and solutions of our time. Come out to see us on display in Lower Sproul Plaza from 6-9pm on Thursday’s portion of the events. You can …
UC Berkeley just completed its homecoming weekend festivities which included us beating UCLA 43-17 at our brand new stadium as well as many of the engineering teams out on display for everyone to see! Impulse was out in front of Davis Hall on Saturday next to the super mileage vehicle, human powered vehicle, and concrete …
CalSol attended the Go Pro Indy Grand Prix sponsored by Sonoma Raceway and got to show off Impulse to hundreds of race car fans and gear-heads alike. We got a prime spot to display the car in front of the autograph booth for the Indy car drivers and we were placed next to an all electric performance vehicle made …
On Monday July 23 we visited 3M’s facility to speak with them about all of their new technologies that could help us build our next solar car. We found many intriguing new tapes, velcro’s, adhesives, and coverings that we will definitely be integrating into our future projects. Thanks again 3M for inviting us to drop …
Sorry for the late blog post but racing has kept every one of us busier than we could ever imagine. We did want to keep everyone up to date on what has been happening though! We began the day in Mansfield, Ohio in a parking lot at Ohio State University with Oregon State with us. …
