The ORCA project aims at improving the hybrid architecture of heavy duty vehicles in the following aspects: reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to the same level of [...]
The ORCA project aims to enhance the performance of European hybrid Heavy-duty (HD) vehicles. The better performance can be realized by overall objectives such as 10% reduction of system costs [...]
The ORCA project investigates electrical axles for trucks due to the potential to improve the total cost of ownership (TCO). In the ORCA solution improvement of the TCO is accomplished [...]
The optiTruck project hosted a webinar on ‘Challenges facing predictive Powertrain technologies’ on 6th February 2018 during which the ORCA project has been presented. At the webinar examples of innovative [...]
The next ORCA presentation on the “Technical Assessment of Hybrid Powertrains for Energy-Efficient Heavy-Duty Vehicles" will take place at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) on 17 April in Vienna, Austria. [...]
The ORCA project will take part in a webinar aimed at providing information on and discussing the "Challanges facing predictive Powertrain technologies" organized by the optiTruck project. Join us at the [...]
ORCA project set several ambitious goals for its two demonstrators: an IVECO multimodal hybrid bus and a VOLVO distribution hybrid truck: extended full electric range from 10km to 30km; improved hybrid powertrain efficiency [...]
Specifications and requirements The ORCA project aims to improve the performances and reduce the total cost of ownership of European heavy-duty hybrid vehicles. Within this framework, Work Package 1 (WP1) [...]
Optimisation Framework and Methodology The ORCA Work Package 2 (WP2) (led by the Vrije Universtiteit Brussel) started in April 2017 and is still in progress. The WP objective is to [...]
On 17th October 2017, 25 experts of the ORCA consortium came together at IVECO’s premises in Turin, Italy for the 1st Internal ORCA Workshop to discuss [...]