An Insider’s Look at the CalSol Warehouse
The Daily Cal journeys to UC Berkeley-owned Richmond Field Station, where campus club CalSol plans and builds their award-winning and innovative solar-powered cars.
UC Berkeley solar-powered-car team works into the night months before next race
RICHMOND — At 2 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, while many UC Berkeley students gathered to watch the Cal-Arizona football game, about 40 of their peers crowded around a silver UFO-like vehicle in the middle of a field in Richmond.
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Glamorama is a stylish show of acoustics and acrobatics
Few events besides Macy’s Passport Presents Glamorama can integrate such diverse performances as the runways of leading fall and winter collections and performances by Sheryl Crow, the Summer Set and even the acrobats of Cirque du Soleil. For the past 30 years, Macy’s has held Glamorama in different cities to raise awareness
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CalSol solar powered car wins fourth place in American Solar Challenge
UC Berkeley’s Solar Vehicle Team, CalSol, placed 4th out of 16 teams in the American Solar Challenge, which ran from July 6 to 14 from New York to Minnesota.
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UC Berkeley solar car team overcomes obstacles in international race
Though the sun shone in the Australian outback, Impulse, the solar car from UC Berkeley, struggled. The car, engineered by students from the campus solar vehicle team CalSol, had been plagued by battery problems that left it with very little power as it pushed toward the finish on the last
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CalSol to enter solar car in international race across Australia
Fueled solely by energy from the sun, a car engineered by UC Berkeley students will embark on a transcontinental sprint across the Australian outback next month. As part of the biennial World Solar Challenge, about 20 members of the campus solar car team CalSol will compete against teams from around
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