Essays on Electric Vehicles

Agenda

Tesla Motors company profile American market SWOT Analysis Public relations objectives Strategies Tactical programs Tesla Motors Inc Tesla is one of the leading American automakers and energy storage devices. The company's products have infiltrated the global market due to high trust levels and economic costs of maintenance. Additionally, the company offers luxury cars models that suit both the celebrities and the common customers and hence widening its market globally despite the presence of high competition in the motor vehicle industry.

Tesla has two models of electric vehicles for customers' selection.

Model X sport utility vehicles (SUV) which offer features like electronic control, all-wheel drive dual motor operational system, as ...

An Electric Vehicle( EV) is a vehicle that includes an electric motor and runs on electricity. Propulsion in these vehicles occurs by one or more electric motors that are powered by rechargeable batteries. Unlike fossil-fuel powered vehicles, the electricity for EVs can be generated from a wide range of sources including nuclear power, solar power, tidal power, wind power and combination of these. Three main types of EVs include:

Vehicles that are directly powered by an external source of power,

Vehicles that are run on the electricity stored by an external source, and Vehicles that are powered by an on-board electric generator Based on these categories, electric vehicles includes four ...

While sustainable development means meeting the needs of the present and future generations, and a focus on prevention of environmental degradation, several factors influence the attainment of these goals, specifically culture and organizations. Sustainable development as a concept first appeared in the Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Economic Development (Buchanan 29). The Brundtland Commission was established in 1985 to address environmental problems due to economic development. Atmospheric pollution, climate change and global warming, accumulated wetlands, decreased freshwater quality, topsoil degradation, endangered species of animals and fishes, and forest degradation were environmental concerns discussed in the Brundtland Commission ( ...

Introduction and Background

The demand for creativity and innovation at the workplace is common for managers and business executives. Innovation and creativity are common tenets of the business strategies adopted by many corporations. Organizations also used innovation and creativity as the element through which they acquire a competitive advantage. Scholars such as Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) find that the concepts of innovation and creativity have gained enjoyed a lot of interest in the recent past. The interest in the concepts has resulted from a shift in how they are perceived. Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) report that the concept of creativity ...

Executive summary

Tesla is an example of a company that is able to disrupt an industry. Before Tesla, the fully electric car was an idea in the research and development laboratories of gasoline-powered cars. After Tesla, the fully electric car is almost synonymous with the name of the company. The technologies behind the car are still expensive and this means that it is still a niche product. However, Tesla is working towards making it a more mainstream car. This paper looks at the efforts of Tesla to get its Model S into the Singaporean market. This paper begins with an introduction ...

The case study reveals that there are a number of challenges faced by Tesla. These challenges rose up when the environmentalist came up with laws and regulations so as to limit the fuel emission from cars. Then technology chipped in which called out for making car models which are based on the latest form of innovative technologies in terms of fuel consumption. Many international car manufacturers have also joined the automobile industry including the companies from Korea, Japan, and China. Due to the increase in care manufacturing companies, the competition has also soared for Tesla. There were some questions ...

Market Research Report for Tesla

Executive Summary Tesla is currently considered as one of the global leaders when it comes to innovations and the production of electronic vehicles. Some of its famed products include the Tesla Roadster, Model S, Model X, and Model 3. The company under the leadership of Elon Husk, the CEO, ventures into external markets with the aim of maximizing profits. China has been one of the target markets that Tesla has already explored and now aims at ensuring that the company gains a competitive advantage over the existing electronic vehicle companies. This is after China was predicted to offer the ...

External Analysis

The first opportunity was holding a design contest for its first product. In this manner, the company managed to secure the manufacturing and engineering expertise of Lotus cars who brought experience to Tesla Motors. The use of Lotus’ software and tools also ensured that a company that has specialized in the area built the chassis. There were financial challenges that faced the company due to the misleading by the CEO, who lied to the investors about the manufacturing cost of the car. Furthermore, there was a discovery that the technology used was outdated, resulting in safety issues in the ...

The issue of the pollution of the environment has been an issue that has always been addressed in different forums. This is mainly due to the fact that the continuous pollution makes the world less inhabitable for man. Pollution may be on different components of the earth; from water, to air to the ground itself. Various mechanisms have been developed as a way of ensuring that we are able to conserve the environment (Shaw 14). These may include measures like ensuring that the citizens use biodegradable products in order to prevent the instances of soil pollution, or ensuring that ...

A History of Innovation

Tesla was founded in 2003 by engineers who wanted to capitalize on the growing market for electric vehicles (Tesla, 2016). Tesla was named after Nikolai Tesla, and the corporation uses several of his patents in the construction of its vehicles. Our major production was the Tesla Roadster, created in 2008. The Roadster could go from zero to sixty MPH in 3.7 seconds, making it one of the quickest vehicles on the market, let alone one of the fastest electric vehicles. The company would sell 2,400 of the Roadsters in total. In 2012, the company launched the Model S ...

Background

The past several years have been graced with an increase in the production and use of hybrid cars. Numerous automobile companies are exploring and introducing hybrid electric vehicles to the market, with several other companies to follows soon given the demand. It is imperative to outline that the introduction and the fast embrace and use of hybrid electric cars over the past few decades have been stimulated by several factors. Apart from the increasing demand for hybrid cars based on their advantages, the increase in production of these vehicles has been stimulated by the declining fuel reserves and concerns ...

It is the duty of each and every person to take care of the environment and further to have in place an environment that will enable the world regenerate and in turn be favourable for the day to day living of man today and the future. Various measures have been put in place in order for this to happen. These include the coming up with the bio-degradable products and further, to look for the alternative sources of energy that reduce the amount of harmful emissions. One of these methods is the coming up with the green cars which are ...

The current growing dependence on electric infrastructure accompanied by a rapid change in generation side as well as demand-side technology ensures a reconsideration of the mandatory design principles as well as the operational concept of the grid (Kok and Steve 38). In its current state, the grid is accompanied by central generation connected with high voltage transmissions and one-way power flows along distribution feeders, providing electricity that meets transportation and the need for additional personalized energy options hence creating the need for more resilient as well as modular design and agile operational impression. The dramatic decrease in prices of ...

Briefing: Climate Change

Global warming is an environmental issue which effects every single one of us. The past 50 years has seen the fastest increase in global temperatures in recorded history; since the year 2000, 15 out of 16 of the hottest days since temperatures have been recorded happened ("Global Warming 101", n.p.). The scientific explanation for global warming is that carbon dioxide (CO2), as well as other pollutants, get into the atmosphere and trap sunlight and solar radiation, causing an increase in global temperatures ("Global Warming 101", n.p.). The two major sources of CO2 are coal-burning for energy and emissions from ...

A Fossil fuel power station is a plant location where fossil fuels are burned producing electricity. Such fossil fuels include petroleum, natural gas, and coal. There are power plants which are designed for continuous operations for large scale purposes called central station fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel plants in many countries are used in the provision of electricity. They have machines for conversion of heat energy from combustion of fossil fuels into mechanical energy that operates an electrical generator producing electric currents (Camus et al. 154). The Samso Island is planning to exhaust the application of fossil fuels ...

Tesla Motors Inc. is American energy storage and the automotive company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicle powertrain components and battery products. Tesla Motors is also a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol TSLA (Carlson & Robertson, 2014). Tesla Motors company manufactures home and office battery charging equipment and has also installed a network of high-powered Superchargers across North America, Asia, and Europe. The company also operates a destination charging program where shops and restaurants among other venues are offered fast chargers for their customers. The market structure in which Tesla Motors competes ...

ENGL 303-005: Technical Writing

Feasibility Study on Solutions to efficiently power an electrical vehicle Abstract “Feasibility Study on Solutions to Efficiently Power and Charge Electrical Vehicles” The future of electric vehicles needs to shift toward the use of solar charging stations which can increase the feasibility of electric vehicles outside of urban areas. The solar powered charging stations can revolutionize the way the world views vehicles powered by renewable energy sources. These solar stations can be placed in rural areas which can allow the drivers to store and charge their vehicle, which will minimize the prevalence of vehicles being stranded without access to ...

Delta case describes the change in prices of options in financial security market of the underlying stock at the time of sale or towards its maturity period. Options used in security market are call options and put option. Delta explains the relationship between an option price and price of the underlying stock hence. In a call option, a rise in the price of an underlying asset results in a proportionate increase in the price of that same option. For a put option investors purchase their assets with an expectation of a fall in the future for the underlying instrument ...

Various stakeholders have a different interest concerning the electric vehicles. Ideally, this can be due to the uniqueness the technological design has adopted. The essence of having hydrogen fuel cell is the need to salvage the environment from harmful emissions. The various stakeholders were particularly interested in the outcome of the usage. Notably, the key stakeholder is the environmental activists lobby groups. The projection depicted by the outcome is environmentally friendly. The NGO push for such devices to be used in the current world. Ideally, global warming has been the major catastrophes that the environmentalist desire to resolve. The ...

SUMMARY

Global warming is a serious issue that threatens the survival of future generations. Various methods are being devised to reverse the effects of global warming such as the use of green energy. Motor vehicles running on fossil fuels produce greenhouse gases which are a major cause of global warming. Therefore, it’s almost impossible to address the issue of global warming without considering emissions from the transport industry. Electric vehicles are a viable and environmentally friendly alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles that combust fossil fuels. The vehicles are powered by a rechargeable battery that drives an electromagnetic motor. ...

Introduction

Tesla Motors Company is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells electric cars as well as components of electric vehicle powertrains. Tesla Motors is also a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange using the symbol TSLA. The stock exchange of the company has been recently rising tremendously. In the year 2014 the stock of the motor company rose up to nearly 70% and in the last 12 months, the figure incredibly rose up to 618%. Tesla Motor Company was founded in California's Silicon Valley and was incorporated in July 2003 by two individuals, namely Eberhard ...

A brake is a device that produces artificial resistance to the moving part of a machine to stop or slow down its motion. Any machine or its part that is in motion possesses kinetic energy. As per physical laws, energy cannot be destroyed; its form can only be transformed. The brake system converts the kinetic energy of the moving machine or part into thermal, potential or chemical energy. Brake systems are of various types utilized in different applications in industries, home appliances, vehicles, railway trains, and other sectors. This paper has focused on the brake systems used in vehicles, ...

Industry Analysis-Tesla Motors Company

Industry Analysis-Tesla Motors Company

Overview

The automobile industry is a very cyclical business. It is closely tied to the economical prices and cycles as well as other key macro factors. In comparison to the traditional segment, the alternative fuel segment has benefited heavily from the increasing prices of oil (Hoffmann & Coste-Manière, 2012). They are highly dependent on the technological or the political environment regarding supporting different government innovations and initiatives that can drive the prices of vehicles down. After almost a century of fueling vehicles using diesel and gasoline, the automobile industry is in a sharp transition towards obtaining ...

A clean energy vehicle, popularly known as green vehicle, is a motor vehicle that makes minimum harmful effects to the surrounding environment in comparison to conventional vehicles, which use either gasoline or diesel as fuel for their internal combustion engines. Clean energy vehicle technology focuses on bringing spectacular improvements in vehicle technologies with the intention of reducing the dependence of running vehicles on nonrenewable energy sources like oil and improving the fuel efficiency. The areas in which the technology concentrates are: bio-fuels, energy conversion, clean combustion, electrification of vehicles, advanced batteries, lightweight materials integration of vehicle grid and analysis ...

Innovation and Technology Management Individual Report

Innovation and Technology Management Individual Report

The research idea selected is the tesla Model 3 electric vehicle. This vehicle the most recent innovation in the transport industry since it offers environmental sustainability as a benefit to users. The company has developed the vehicle as an electric vehicle with zero carbon emissions. It is expected by Tesla Motors that the new and innovative vehicle will be ready for shipping to consumers by the end of 2017. According to the Tesla website, the vehicle is highly efficient in energy consumption since it allows a range of up to 215 miles per ...

Introduction

The development in the automotive industry has resulted in the production of various sustainable technologies. The paper is going to examine the problem of the pollution and contribution to reduction of the automotive industry to the climate change in carbon dioxide emissions. The partial solution for the transport industry has already been introduced with the technology of electric vehicles. The sustainability of the technology will be examined with the shortcomings and disadvantages of the battery production of electronic vehicles. The thesis of the paper is that electric vehicles are more sustainable than the traditional cars and use sustainable technology ...

Tesla’s business model is very difficult to put into practice in the current general environment, because there are many factors that influence the development of technology and automotive industry upon which Tesla’s strategic decisions depend. The company introduced very innovative and costly cars and now it is important that in the key markets there will be a very strong upper middle class. If the global economy and the economies of the developed countries continue to grow, Tesla will have much many business opportunities. One more economic factor that is going to have a very positive impact on ...

Abstract

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) are a type of motors that have permanent magnets mounted on the rotors instead of the rotor windings. This particular design gives the motor a few advantages over ordinary induction synchronous motors. The magnets attached to the rotor do not require excitation, which reduces the power consumption in PMSM. This gives the motor high operational efficiency and reduces the motor active diameter. PMSM are therefore associated with applications that require high torque but have limited operation space. The permanent magnets suffer from flux leakage and are therefore aligned in a pattern that minimizes flux ...

Electric Transportation for personal, industrial, and public transportation is the largest investment that will prepare for the future financial stability of any utility company. Many utility companies across the globe have already begun the transition and many more will follow. Now is the time to get in on this new technology that is assuredly bound for complete integration into society during this century. The United States has been a leading nation in many technologies, now is the time to lead with electric transportation and the American utility companies can be that leader. Everyone knows that the fossil fuel industry ...

Motivation for the Study

Many automobile manufacturers in car producing countries are taking an interest in the renewable fuels as an alternative energy source for vehicles. This is due to the challenges caused by the difference in demand and supply of conventional energy sources like fossil fuels and the environmental degradation associated with them (Liu, 2015). Renewable fuels are more efficient than the current fuels used to power vehicles and their use will significantly reduce the fuel costs incurred by consumers. Renewable energy sources cause minimal environmental pollution, and its utilization will reduce the world’s pollution levels. The use of renewable fuels ...

An automotive engine is a propulsion system responsible for moving automobiles from one place to another. An engine converts energy from a fuel or a battery to the mechanical energy used to spin the wheels, thus setting a vehicle in motion. There are different types of engines used in the automotive industry today. These include internal combustion engines and electricity driven vehicles. The internal combustion engines burn fuels such as petrol, diesel, natural gas or propane. Electric engines are fitted with electromagnetic motors that are powered by electric currents from storage batteries on the vehicle. The sole purpose of ...

INTRODUCTION

The electric car was introduced to the market over a hundred years ago. The car used a battery to power most of its applications during operation. There are two varieties of the electric vehicle in the market. First, the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) has a battery and a system of the electric drive but has no capacity to plug in. The second type is a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) which obtains its energy from liquid fuel or the battery and has a plugin. Over the years, the performance capacities of these cars have been improved up to 300 hp ...

Introduction

The recent trends have had a major impact on the UK (United Kingdom) petroleum retail market. The trend impact has been on the number of petrol filling stations (PFS). The UK Petroleum Industry has undergone major changes since 1970. The changes impacted a decline of PFS with a closure of more than seventy-five percent of PFS and a further decline of twenty-nine percent in 2011 although there has been some reduction in the decline in last five years (Study of the UK Petroleum Retail Market., 2012). Independent dealers had a lot of pressure from the hypermarkets, and this has ...