Cycling and calendar ageing tests are currently being performed at the VUB to characterise the bus prototype battery storage system with relevant State of Charge and State of Health algorithms. [...]
The fourth ORCA General Assembly meeting The fourth General Assembly meeting took place on 24 and 25 October 2019 at VUB’s premises in Brussels, Belgium. The main focus has been [...]
The last challenging stage of the ORCA project has just started: developed concepts and solutions are to be validated/verified through virtual and experimental testing. Laboratory based testing of both the [...]
ORCA will produce two hybrid demonstrator vehicles: a truck and a bus. They will be exhibited at the project’s final event. The Regional Distribution Volvo Truck ORCA is developing a [...]
Within the ORCA project, various methods and tools have been developed and applied to improve the design and specifications of hybrid powertrain components leading to better efficiency and to downsize [...]
ORCA will participate in the poster session of GHOST and iModBatt’s workshop. The workshop will be held on 18 October in San Sebastian and it will focus on reducing the [...]
The ORCA project will produce two hybrid demos: a truck and a bus. All components of the truck are ready, and assembly has started in the Volvo workshop. The control [...]
ORCA partners are pleased to announce the addition of Bluways to the ORCA project. Bluways’ expertise is in optimising energy storage life cycles, performance, stability, and reliability in the scalable [...]
ORCA project partner Vrije Universiteit Brussel will present two project related papers at the upcoming EVS32. Researcher Duong Tran will present his paper, Co-Design Approach and Optimization for Plug-In Hybrid [...]
In the ORCA project special focus is given to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Optimisation Framework for heavy-duty vehicles therefore two co-desing methodologies [...]