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And we are all GREEN! CalSol ended Day 2 with a high, successfully passing all scrutineering tests with greens. This included passing the dynamics test like the slalom test below: Passing these tests makes us track eligible for the circuit segment of FSGP on Thursday. Free of any tests on Day 3 (Wednesday), we seized the […]

The first few stages of FSGP went really well for CalSol, passing all static scruntineering stations with greens. This includes the daunting Electrical, Battery Protection System and Mechanical scrutineering tests. Making minor adjustments on-the-fly, the team managed to convert all yellows to greens within a short period of time. The next challenge for the team will

After a 4 day journey from California to Texas, Zephyr has arrived at the Circuit of the Americas; primed and ready for the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) 2017. Throughout the next week, Zephyr will undergo 3 days of intense scrutineering by race officials before hitting the track and racing other teams. Registration was extremely

  Zephyr is ready to ship after a year of hard work, and departed for Texas this afternoon! She will arrive at Circuit of the Americas in Texas on Sunday July 2nd. While Zephyr still needs a few final adjustments after her multi-day journey, we are confident she will be ready for Scrutineering on Monday.

We are excited to announce Mun Manufacturing Co.’s sponsorship for Tachyon! Mun Manufacturing is a machine shop in Oakland, California, and is run by dedicated owners Dennis and Jeanne Lee. They machined the tooling foam plug for our practice mold this summer, and we look forward to a very rewarding and productive partnership with Mun

We are very happy to announce DUNA-USA Inc.’s sponsorship for Tachyon! DUNA-USA Inc. manufactures a large range of low and high density foams, as well as chemicals and equipment for utilizing these foams. They have sponsored CalSol with high-density tooling foam and specialty adhesives for joining the foam into larger blanks for milling, and we

In addition to all of our generous sponsors for Zephyr, we would like to thank some of our new and returning sponsors for our upcoming 9th generation vehicle, Tachyon. We are proud to present Airtech Advanced Materials Group’s sponsorship for Tachyon. Airtech Advanced Materials Group is the largest manufacturer of vacuum bagging and composites tooling

Sunpower, a commercial solar company based in nearby Richmond, CA, has been designing and manufacturing state-of-the-art solar cells and modules since 1985.  Thanks to a generous discount, we were able to use their high-quality E-60 cells for Zephyr, which, in addition to some valuable advice from their engineers, allowed us to create our most efficient solar array yet.

Bay Area Circuits, a printed circuit board manufacturing company based in Fremont, CA, has been a dedicated sponsor of ours for 4 years. We custom-design almost all of the PCBs on our car, and Bay Area Circuits’ sponsorship has been critical to our development cycle. We know we can count on their rigorous testing process

Summer is drawing near. Tender green buds and new spring grass are giving way to lush spring growth, while the summer sun shines ever brightly in the cloudless sky. Well, this being Berkeley, the weather is like this most of the time. Still, you get my point…   The coming of summer also reminds us