The ORCA consortium developed and published its second project brochure. Download the new ORCA brochure to get information on the recent developments related to energy management and to the advanced [...]
After the Paris Agreement, the EU committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. This reduction includes 43% decrease in ETS sectors, and 30% [...]
On 4 October, at the HVTT15 in the parallel session on “Electrification and hybridization” the ORCA project results have been presented by Steven Wilkins (TNO). The presentation provided details on [...]
The third ORCA General Assembly meeting On the 30th and 31st of October 2018, the ORCA consortium held its third General Assembly meeting at Volvo’s premises in Gothenburg, Sweden in [...]
ORCA will be presented at the International Symposium on Heavy Vehicles Transport Technology (HVTT) on 4 October, 2018 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Session: Electrification and hybridization Date & time: 4 [...]
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. [...]