CalSol would like to welcome another Silver sponsor to the team. Smart Solar International focuses on offering Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Systems to be deployed in commercial and utility scales all around the world. Their goal is to lower the cost of renewable energy through CPV technology. The innovative company is expanding to the United States …
Volkswagen Group of America continues to strongly support our work. As we submit paperwork for the 2011 World Solar Challenge we are very grateful for the resources necessary to finish constructing Impulse. With less than nine months until the start of WSC, this support couldn’t have come at a better time. Thank you to Volkswagen …
CalSol is very excited about our recent partnership with the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (VW ERL). Volkswagen has been incredibly helpful with their technical knowledge and will be an invaluable resource for our competition in World Solar Challenge. Thank you Dr. Burkhard Huhnke for Volkswagen’s financial support that makes Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) our …
Thank you MathWorks for giving CalSol a large number of computational tools. MATLAB, Simulink, and the rest of the suite will allow us to create programs that analyze mechanical kinematics and dynamics, optimize our solar array, crunch data from our testing, and help us perfect our race strategy. Thank you for …
CalSol will be at UC Berkeley’s biggest open house on Saturday, April 17. Cal Day is a campus-wide event where the public tour the campus and where new and prospective students see what Berkeley is all about. Enjoy tours, free museums, tons of events, (free parking), and our very own solar car! CalSol will be …
CalSol had a great time at E4K (Engineering 4 Kids). We brought GoldRush to the event and showed the 4-6th graders what motivated students can do in engineering. Thank you to Berkeley’s engineering community for making this event possible. It was a pleasure to share our solar car with the kids and their parents.
GoldRush will be on the UC Berkeley campus at the PLAYgreen Festival 2010. Come check out CalSol’s newest vehicle on Friday, February 26 between 10am and 4pm. You can find us on Upper Sproul Plaza. Update 3/16/10: CalSol is on the cover of the Cal Rec Sports Newsletter! Check out the full slideshow on the …
Thank you Novarm for your software donation to CalSol. DipTrace allows us to design printed circuit boards. Every electrical component on the car will be oriented based on this software. This will be awesome.
CalSol has been working hard on designing every system for our next car. We ran into problems building GoldRush because construction began before every feature of the car had been completely planned. Last year as we approached Formula Sun Grand Prix we found ourselves with increasingly difficult design challenges that could have been eliminated with …
Hello! As CalSol’s new Team Lead I am very excited about the next generation of the UC Berkeley Solar Car Team. Building on our experience at Formula Sun Grand Prix we have critiqued every aspect of our car and are geared up to design something even better. With almost twenty returning members we have much …
