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ORA

Key facts

Models
3
Starting price
38,990 €
Best range (everyday)
340 km
Body styles
Steilheck

About the brand

Founded
2018
Headquarters
Baoding, China
Ownership
The electric brand of Great Wall Motor

History

Great Wall Motor presented ORA in May 2018 and launched the brand in Baoding that August. ORA was set up as an electric only brand from the start and arrived with deliberately friendly looking small cars, all of them named after cats. The brand reached Europe in late 2022, and in November 2023 GWM reorganised the names: the Funky Cat became the ORA 03.

EV strategy

ORA was meant to be the electric way into the GWM world, with compact cars and retro styling instead of technical talk. In Europe that has not worked out so far: the ORA 03 was withdrawn in the United Kingdom in spring 2026, and the new ORA 5 comes not only as an electric car but also as a hybrid and with a combustion engine.

Good to know

  • The brand name nods to mathematician Leonhard Euler; GWM also reads it as open, reliable and alternative.
  • Until November 2023 the models were called Black Cat, White Cat, Good Cat, Funky Cat and Ballet Cat; then numbers replaced the cats.
  • A brand founded as electric only now sells its newest model with a combustion engine too.

Sources:en.wikipedia.orgautonews.gasgoo.comgwmcars.co.ukelectrive.com

Models

3 models

  • ORA Funky Cat 300

    Orderable new 2023
    260kmRangeEveryday
    Electricity cost about 7.0 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesElectricity costEveryday
    38,990€New price from

    ORA Funky Cat 300

    Orderable new 2023
    260 kmElectricity cost about 7.0 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesNew price from 38.990 €

  • ORA Funky Cat 400 Pro

    Orderable new 2023
    340kmRangeEveryday
    Electricity cost about 7.1 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesElectricity costEveryday
    44,490€New price from

    ORA Funky Cat 400 Pro

    Orderable new 2023
    340 kmElectricity cost about 7.1 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesNew price from 44.490 €

  • ORA Funky Cat GT

    Orderable new 2023
    330kmRangeEveryday
    Electricity cost about 7.1 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesElectricity costEveryday
    49,490€New price from

    ORA Funky Cat GT

    Orderable new 2023
    330 kmElectricity cost about 7.1 euro per 100 kilometres, at 0.35 euro per kilowatt-hour of home electricity, measured at the socket including charging lossesNew price from 49.490 €
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