Elements Tesla’s initial goal was to manufacture exquisite electric sport cars, Roadster, with superior performance, however, on the verge of bankruptcy as each Roadster cost $140,000 to produce and sold for $109,000, Mr. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, shifted from the niche market sports car design of the Roadster to an elegant, modular, and flexible four-door sedan, Model S. In addition, Tesla persuaded Daimler to convert their Smart cars to electric by buying…
are asked ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’, and there is always a wide variety of answers, such as a police officer, a professional athlete, an astronaut. One of the conveniences of being a child is not having to worry about a mortgage, a car, and a responsibility to put food on the table. As we grow older, we get a dose of reality, we begin to worry about more aspects to a career than the childish principles of it sounding ‘cool’ or ‘fun’. Each job presents their own unique challenges…
IB Candidate Number: gwv306 Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Findings and Analysis 4 III. Synthesis of tools 8 IV. Conclusion 8 V. Supporting Documents 8 VI. Bibliography 9 Introduction After going public with their first car, the Tesla Roadster, in the United States, Tesla quickly became an internationally recognized innovative and progressive company in the green technology market (Radius World Wide). As an internationally renowned company in the sustainability…
lost, the disposal of the lead within the battery must be dealt with appropriately. An analysis by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon found that the mass production of electric cars using lead/acid battery packs would exponentially increase the public’s exposure to lead pollution (Peters, 1995). According to the study, electric cars would create more than 60 times the amount of lead pollution as compared to vehicles burning leaded gasoline (Peters, 1995). In addition to problems associated with lead…
Elon Musk has never been shy to spend an exuberant amount of money in order to fulfill his ambition. Musk spent over $100 million in SpaceX, over $70 million in Tesla Motors, and over $10 million in Solar City upon entry into these markets without foreseeable returns (Vance, 2015). Musk dedicates large sums of money towards creating production facilities. Making up for the equipment expenditure relied on profits made from the Tesla electric vehicles and investor confidence (Vance, 2015). The…
road with them. One of the many issues revolving around self-driving cars is the question of safety. How much can we trust in computers to keep us safe? The main system that is used in self driving technology is a computer, and computers tend to have their moments of malfunction. For a piece of machinery…
powertrains and electric components. Tesla is a pioneer of electric technologies for cars as well. The company also owns their own service centers and supercharges stations. In addition to electric car manufacturing, the organization has designed and developed electric components for other car manufacturers. For example, Daimler AG, also known as Mercedes Benz, purchased electric methodologies for its sub-compact model the “Smart Car.” Tesla also develops charging technologies for home…
vehicle is no longer something exotic and futuristic to become a present need. The massive purchase of cars in emerging economies imposes a solution to avoid the irreversible deterioration of atmosphere , and the rising oil price, dwindling We Aboca an economy totally unsustainable. It is time to change the supplier by the plug. The figures are staggering. Today there are nearly one million cars circulating in the world, and in less than 40 years, the fleet will have doubled . Exponential growth…
pay little attention to what they do on a daily basis. Driverless cars introduce a safe way that humans can be on the road and multitask. They are reliable and proven to be safer than humans driving on the road and help benefit the flow of traffic. They do this by allowing a system of computers to determine what measures should be taken and what precautions to be looking for on the road that regular people can’t foresee. Driverless cars provide a new, safe alternative for people and allow us to…
in the future development and effect of transportation planning decision. This paper would also analyze impact on car ownership, mobility, traffic congestion, parking demand, traffic safety, public transit, land use, energy conservation, integrated infrastructure, job market and pollution in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). There is five criteria to satisfy over the conventional cars which are congestion problem solution, safety improvements, less impact on environment, economic feasibility,…