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CalSol would like to give Texas Almet a huge shoutout for their donations that helped make our Tachyon the solar car it is today! Texas Almet is one of North America’s leading producers in honeycomb components which are known for impressive strength without added weight overhead.  In fact, the durable yet light honeycomb cells the […]

Huge thank you to Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, for the continuous support since 2013! Recurrent Energy is a leading utility-scale solar project developer, delivering competitive, clean electricity to large energy buyers. Recurrent Energy has approximately 7 GW of solar and storage projects in development in the U.S., and the company is currently

CalSol competed at the 2019 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 4rd to July 7th in Austin, Texas. We raced our first-ever cruiser, Tachyon, and won second place in the cruiser class! We would like to thank all our sponsors for supporting us throughout the process, and we would also like to thank the Innovators

We did it! After a week of intense, around-the-clock work, constant discussions, and sleepless nights, we have finally finished racing Tachyon at FSGP 2019. We received SECOND PLACE in the MOV category, which is much better than we expected! In addition, we received the sportsmanship award during the awards ceremony! CalSol has worked so hard

Today, Tachyon has completed 25 laps around the track, currently in second place in the cruiser class! Click here to access live updates on FSGP team ranks, and we are also streaming the race on Twitch. Tomorrow’s our last day of racing, so we are going to be putting in our all!

Today, we finished up dynamic scrutineering and got our first taste of the COTA track! Tachyon completed 3 laps in the last 15 minutes of racetime, moving up to a second place cruiser spot. Before we get to the photos, here are some important links to keep you updated during the race. Click here to

Today, we finished all of our static scrutineering, getting approval on body and sizing, mechanical, lights and vision, battery protection, and driver operations. In addition, our various subteams worked on finishing up various parts of the car, and CalSol continued onto dynamic scrutineering. Click here to access live updates on FSGP team scrutineering status. We

For the first time, Tachyon has driven under its own power! Our team has completed scrutineering for drivers, safety, and array, and we are working towards finishing our electrical and mechanical scrutineering tomorrow. We gave our drivers a feel for the car during a nighttime road test around the parking lot. Click here to access

We have made it to COTA (Circuit of the Americas) and set up our base camp for the week! The first three days of FSGP are reserved for scrutineering, which is where officials come and survey the car’s electrical, solar, composite, safety, and other requirements. This also involves dynamic scrutineering, in which our drivers must

After we arrived in Texas yesterday, we immediately started working on our car in preparation for day 1 of scrutineering tomorrow. Tachyon has undergone some changes over the past few weeks; the rolling chassis is soon to become a fully integrated solar vehicle! Here are some of the things we have been working on and