Author name: Jessica Chang

CalSol drove down with Impulse to the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab today to give an end-of-year presentation on what we have learned, how much we have grown, how far we have come, and where we are heading next.  We’d like to thank everyone at the ERL for being there, supporting us, and inspiring us to […]

On August 19th of last year, literally days before the car shipped off across the Pacific Ocean, SunPower courteously invited us to an ice cream social event they were having at Richmond their office to wish Impulse bon voyage.  We were very honored to be there and extremely surprised to be welcomed by nearly 200

Howdy friends!  It’s been a while! I have finally returned to our beautiful golden state, California!  After getting back to school and sorting out all sorts of miscellaneous logistical issues, I couldn’t help but noticed that our blog is TERRIBLY out of date!  To start off a series of blog posts to come, I’d like

While it is important to get a car built, run, and tested, it is absolutely essential to successfully get the car across the Pacific Ocean in order to participate the Veolia World Solar Challenge in Australia. The team began looking into shipping logistics in April, with very little luck. We have talked to many freight

After our strong finish on the last day of raycing, we packed up the car and headed over to downtown Adelaide. We parked our support vehicles at the fairground parking lot and waited for our turn to cross the finishline at Victoria Square. The team gathered at the finishline and nervously waited for Mike to

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

Three days into raycing, the team began to realize why this is a Challenge as opposed to a Race. Like a WSC official commented yesterday at the Dunmarra Control Stop that we unfortunately missed by a minute, “all kinds of sh*t happens when you rayce a solar car across the Outback!”  In the past couple

Hello everyone! This is Jessica, Nicole, Abhay, and Martin from Scout, Maroon 5! Just in case you’re wondering, this is the same Jessica as the one from Captain BlueBear in the past few days. Everyone has been car-hopping, so here I am, in Maroon 5 Due to the lack of technology in this car in

Hello from Mike, Marc, and Jessica in Captain BlueBear! We stole Mike from the rest of the caravan mostly because we needed a cameraman to snap all the beautiful sights we’re seeing and his pictures for the blog posts in general (FYI, Mike is the mediaman for the trip). Since we were already packed up

We would like to add an addendum to what happened to us after we left Coober Pedy yesterday, and we believe the following video pretty much sums up our evening.  We sincerely hope you enjoy this short film as much as we do. For the record, we changed the tire and fixed things up in