Wind gives you wings
With the goal of building the world’s first wind-powered car and truck carrier, Orcelle designed wind-harnessing vertical sails known as wings. The wings are being installed on two physical demonstrators, a one-wing retrofit of an existing cargo ship and a newbuild multi-wing vessel. The project is confident that its innovative wind propulsion systems will achieve an energy efficiency gain of more than 50 %, and even as much as 100 % in ideal sailing conditions.