The decision to use a commercially available display offered significant advantages for Volvo Penta in terms of reduced development time and expense.

However, a potential downside of this decision was a costlier bill for materials, as commercial displays typically offer more features than are required.

This was resolved by Volvo Penta becoming the lead customer for a new generation of TeleflexMorse's CANtrak display, the 2600. This was initially developed to meet the stringent cost goals of the automotive industry and exploits advanced technologies to reduce component count and manufacturing costs.

The resulting display platform, although still offering a general purpose solution, proved to be close enough to Volvo Penta's cost targets, allowing them to offer their customers a display alternative providing much more data than is possible with conventional dedicated gauges.

The final application software provides a wide range of multi-gauge and single gauge display screens, accessible using the display's pushbuttons.

EVC is now launched in combination with Volvo Penta's electronically controlled diesel and petrol engines.

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