Hi all, Thank you parents, friends, and strangers for giving us so much positive feedback and support in the past few days! We will keep up with the blogging as much as we can, and we are going to seriously miss internet so much after we head into the Outback… We have been working on …
G’day mates, Last night in Port Pirie, we stayed at the Rangeview Caravan Park. The owner Vern was very kind to us; besides offering us a discount for the night and letting us check out late (for us to work on getting Impulse ready for the road), he is also storing our huge fiber glass …
Hiya, it’s Marc and Jessica again! It seems like the team hasn’t had very good internet connection since we have been the only ones posting. After separating from the rest of the team for three days, we have finally reunited today in Adelaide and are now resting together up by Port Pirie. The weather was …
Hi all, this is Jessica! We have finally arrived in Adelaide and acquired a driving permit for Impulse. Thank you South Australia Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure for making this process so smooth and painless! After having a comfortable night sleeping in Captain BlueBear, Marc and I continued driving towards South Australia (SA) for …
We are very pleased to announce that Toshiba is back on our sponsor list in this exciting decade of CalSol! Toshiba once donated a wonderful desktop back in the late 90’s that we used heavily to CAD our mechanical parts. This time, Toshiba has generously given us two ultralight Portege laptops, two THRiVE tablets, and …
G’day mates! Today, on 9/27, the team has finally gathered up in Melbourne and is ready to begin our month-long adventure in this strange continent called Australia. Despite all the hard work we have put into logistics this past whole month, there are still many details that need to be figured out. As we are …
This Thursday, 8/25, Impulse will be officially sailing across the Pacific Ocean to the other side of the world. In the past couple days, we have been dealing with logistical nightmares and trying to coordinate packing, loading and all that jazz. We are very relieved to say that as of this morning on 8/23, Impulse …
http://calsol.berkeley.edu/donate As WSC fast approaching and Impulse being completed, we are now shifting our focus. In order to participate in the competition while keeping our team out of the red, CalSol would like to ask for your support and help us raise $34,000 to cover the cost of the race.
July 12th was a very exciting day for CalSol in many ways. Since we were coming down to the Peninsula to wrap up our registration, we decided to swing by Belmont to visit our awesome platinum sponsor, Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab!
As of yesterday, July 12, Impulse is now legally registered with the DMV! How exciting! In this picture, you can sort of see the VIN sticker that CHP issued us yesterday too! Here I would like to especially thank Redwood City CHP for making the registration process quick and painless. With the sparkling new license …
