The ORCA movie has been released!
The ORCA movie has been released! Watch it now to get an overview on the ORCA objectives, the developed innovations and the project partners. .
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09, 2021
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07, 2021
Invitation to online final event
The ORCA Consortia is inviting you to its online final event scheduled for 22 September 2021 at 09:30-12:30 CET. The ORCA project aimed at designing clean, efficient, and green plug-in hybrid heavy-duty vehicles that are cost-competitive within the market: [...]
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06, 2021
Save the date: ORCA project final event on 22 September 2021 (online)
When: 22 September 2021, between 9:30 & 12:30 am (CEST) Where: online Topic: ORCA Project - final event Register: here On 22 September, starting at 9.30 am, the ORCA team will [...]
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06, 2021
The economic and environmental assessments of the ORCA vehicles have been completed
The ORCA project aims to design clean, efficient, and green plug-in hybrid heavy-duty vehicles that are cost-competitive within the market: an IVECO Multi Modular hybrid passenger bus and a VOLVO [...]
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05, 2021
Successful testing of the ORCA truck at the Vehicle Feature Lab
The ORCA truck has been successfully tested in the Vehicle Feature Lab at Volvo. From the 19th of April to the 3rd of May, the Volvo engineers have been busy [...]
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02, 2021
General Assembly meeting
On 29 January, the Consortium held its General Assembly meeting online. The technical progress have been presented and discussed in detail, special attention was payed to the progress towards the [...]
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10, 2020
Flash news: Bus Demo on roller bench
Before summer vacations the ORCA Bus demonstrator has been tested on roller test bench in electric mode using new multimodal driveline. Soon the vehicle will be completed with the installation [...]
21
09, 2020
Flash news: Regional Distribution Truck in full electric mode
A major milestone has been achieved in WP4 just before summer vacations started, the ORCA truck can finally be driven in full electric mode. Now the focus of the team [...]
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09, 2020
Update: Optimisation Framework and Methodology
The work on ‘Optimisation Framework and Methodology’ is still progressing well, despite minor Covid-19 delays. An extensive comparison between CNG and Diesel engine has been performed to assess the impact [...]
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03, 2020
Update: Regional Distribution Truck
ORCA is developing a distribution Plug-In Hybrid truck to be able to cope with future ZEZ (Zero Emission Zones) restrictions in cities and urban areas. The truck hardware build has [...]