Essays on Passenger Car

ENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Introduction This study evaluates the operating principles of vehicle fuel systems, vehicle ignition systems and pressure charging of engines. The report attempts to evaluate the operating features of actuators and sensors used in the ignition systems and engine management system of vehicles. It also analyzes the types of pressure charging systems, its shortfalls and how it affects the enhanced power of the engine. The secondary sources which form the bulk of this report are primarily research from various sources. The paragraphs below look into the sensors and actuators and the pressure charging systems.

Sensors and Actuators

Types of Sensors and function The ...

Final Analysis & Recommendations

Final Analysis & Recommendations

Generally, global competition in the vehicle manufacturing notably affects my organization in different ways. Predominantly, the automobile business is often facing aggressive price war during harsh economic situations and recession times as a result of the growing global competition. In this insight, major international automobile producers from all over the world and in particular those countries known to major in vehicle production like Japan thus tend to offer valuable vehicles at competitive prices, thus forcing other automotive companies like my organization to lower our pricing significantly. The distinctive feature of these major automotive manufacturers is the ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Fuel Cell Technologies in Passenger Cars

Fuel Cell Technology The last decade is characterized by the rapid development of research activity in the field of fuel cells, thus, creating the conditions for their uptake in electric systems. The basic fuel cells’ operating principle has been known for 150 years. However, a variety of technical and financial problems had kept them on the margins of technological applications (Brandon & Hart, 1999). The basic difference between a fuel cell and batteries is that while batteries store energy, fuel cells directly convert a fuel’s chemical energy into electricity by an electrochemical reaction (i.e. Without requiring combustion or movement ...

Volkswagen vs Ford

Introduction Volkswagen and Ford are both family businesses working in the global automotive industry. In 2015 worldwide 73.9 million of passenger cars were sold in the global automobile markets along with the 86.56 cars produced. The biggest automotive markets can be found in China and in the United States. The biggest automotive suppliers in the industry are from Asia and Europe and include Bosch with steering systems, Continental in the area of tire manufacturing, Denso and Magna. The size of automotive supplier market worldwide is estimated at €620bn (The Statistics Portal, 2016). Those suppliers are currently faced with the ...

In recent years, policy makers of organizations are using different growth strategies to perform well in market. This research study intends to explore growth strategies of Tata Motors and Jaguar and Land Rover. The second part of research study explores the growth strategies of Wal-Mart, one of the biggest retail grocery stores of the world. We examined the acquisition of pink n pay and we critically analyzed these growth strategies in this research study. For this purpose we collected data from Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover. Data was collected from scholarly research papers, companies’ annual reports and official ...