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Tesla Motors Overview Tesla Motors was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning with Elon Musk joining the company in February of 2004 providing the majority of the company’s financing in the beginning. The goal of Tesla was and still is to create affordable electric vehicles to the mass market. The initial goal was to start with a premium sports car for early adopters which would then help to finance the company’s sedans and compacts. Today, Tesla has established itself as…

With growing concern for the environment, multiple corporations have attempted to make their products eco-friendly and efficient. For the automotive industry, electric cars have taken a new stand and are gaining popularity. Audi, in particular has put together an advertisement that strives to give their first ever plug-in hybrid vehicle an honorable and superior title. In this TV commercial, the setting, events, music and body language all contribute to the main claim and goal, which is to…

Tesla Model S is regarded as an “evolution in automobile engineering” (Teslamotors.com, 2015). With its dual motor feature at the front and rear wheels (see Figure 2 above) resulting in “unparalleled traction control in all conditions”, Tesla Model S is a definite enhancement on a usual conventional four-wheel drive system. (Teslamotors.com, 2015) Every individual Model S is constructed to be lighter, smaller and more efficient to provide both faster acceleration and improve range, enabling the…

Exploratory essay My goals in life is to have a family and friends, next I want to be able to make enough money to support my family and hopefully donate money to less fortunate families. In the meantime One of my goals right now is to complete the HCC welding program and go threw a two year auto class. This summer i'm going to complete a 3 month basic training through the national guard and receiving 200 dollars and more a month depending on my current rank. Value My values are very important…

Economics Essay Outline Introduction: The world’s economy is heavily affected by the price of oil. Economic growth, especially in developing countries, is dependent on oil, the demand from those nations is gradually increasing and for developed countries such as Canada to maintain their economic growth switching to electric cars is imperative. Ending Canada’s economic dependence on oil is undoubtedly going to benefit the economy. Thesis: Switching to electric cars will provide new jobs, more…

Walser is a company that owns multiple dealerships throughout Minnesota. Most of them have service garages attached to them which repairs and checks out cars. When theses garages need a part to fix a car they have to call it into the hub, which is the warehouse that has all the parts. The warehouse fills out the order and delivers it to the service garage that need the part. The hub uses to be an old auto part store before Walser bought it and was the best place I ever worked at. The Hub is…

I believe that the american muscle cars are better then tuners/supercars/imports. Are muscle cars are louder, heavier and meaner than any other cars i know of. Super cars are built for speed and precision but muscle cars make them sound like lawn mowers. They are very aerodynamic and the muscle cars are lean heavy and built to take a hit. If you were to wreck a ferrari or lamborghini they would smash and cost you thousands maybe millions. Plus you can't really work on it yourself you have to…

Climbing into the cockpit of Shelby American's 50th Anniversary Daytona Coupe is very much like like going back in time. only it's a bit more comfortable. Only, this time it’s a bit more comfortable. The steering wheel has a fat leather rim metal spokes and a metal badge at its center. The dashboard looks like a '60s-era science project with plainly labeled knobs and switches set into a flat black surface. The only clues that this is a modern vehicle and not a 1965 race car are the switches for…

“The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I relate to this thought in my quest to find sustainable technologies because the work of an engineer is to “enable the future” not merely to “foresee” it. As a mechanical engineer and a founder & head for a sustainable technology based start-up I realized the importance of technology enabled sustainability for a healthier…

In the last decade, our population has seen the greatest innovation ever experienced in technology. There are smartphones which combines a computer’s operating system with the cellular feature in a pocket size device. There are also electric cars which are vehicles that are propelled by one or more electric motors, using electrical energy stored in rechargeable batteries. I believe both technology have changed people’s lives and stimulated economic growth however it also holds a major privacy…