Electric motor

The mission of Tesla Motors is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy (Tesla Inc. 2016). Initially, Tesla’s mission statement focused on acceleration to ‘sustainable transport’ but the updated mission statement mission statement to ‘sustainable energy’ implies the shift in the organization’s business to a new direction, addressing renewable energy opportunities in the market (Hines 2016). Tesla’s mission statement can be broken down into three simple components: sustainable…

Electric cars only run on one battery, there is no internal combustion engine, muffler, gasoline tank, air or fuel filters, or any other parts needed to run a gasoline powered car. There are no tailpipe emissions, it creates fewer greenhouse gases, and they are cheaper to fuel per mile, 2 cents per mile compared to 12 cents per mile. Electric cars drive shorter distance, they only go 100 miles compared to 300 miles, and are not easy to operate. It takes hours to recharge an electric vehicle…

General Motors introduced the EV1 in 1996, after over 30 years of testing and exploration. The EV1 was a battery powered vehicle, called the Chevrolet Electovair. The vehicle was principally announced to fulfill the California zero-emissions decree. However, when state guidelines reformed, General Motors allowed their customer leases elapse and terminated manufacturing the EV1 2003. In the end, the EV1 cost GM over $1 billion. General Motors created a model for an electric car that they…

This paper discusses electric vehicles and fuel cells vehicles. Most people use fuel cells vehicles. We tend to think that electric vehicles is better than fuel cells vehicles. In particular, we think that electric vehicles can move using electricity without fuel cells and are environment conscious. Both of them have merits and demerits. I discuss the differences between them. Electric vehicles are propelled by one or more electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs. They have several…

A hybrid vehicle uses two or more distinct types of power, such as internal combustion engine and electric motor. While there are many types of hybrid vehicles, this paper will mainly focus on hybrid electric vehicles. Hybrid cars are a combination of electric and gas powered engines, and combine the best of both to be much more practical than just a simple gas powered or fully electric car. In the world today there are hundreds of ways to travel, like trains, planes, boats and cars. The most…

dioxide into the atmosphere. To combat this problem manufactures are starting to create electric cars, but most electric cars today make compromises in range, thus making them impractical. To decrease the environmental impact of gasoline cars, electric cars need to stop compromising. The purpose of this project was to create a car that can wirelessly charge off of pads on roads while driving, which would allow an electric car to surpass gasoline cars in range. First a wireless charging system…

Mission Statement: Tesla Motors’ mission is to create and sell vehicles that will aid in the ability to better the environment. We want to move the world towards sustainable energy. The mission statement above is a great representation of what the corporation is aiming towards. Tesla develops and sells electric cars. The corporation was created in 2003 for that sole purpose. Tesla is working towards proving to the world that electric cars can be better than gasoline automobiles. The corporation…

Electric cars have been around since the 1830’s, but saw a major decline during the 1900’s when the Model T was introduced and mass produced killing any hope for electric cars until now[]. As we all know electric vehicles run off batteries becoming more environmental friendly. Figure A shows a general outline of what an Electric vehicle consists of. Electric motors get there power from a controller, while the controller gets its power from rechargeable batteries. Batteries come in many different…

Are Electric Car Green? In the article Electric cars: are they really more polluting than gas? Stephen Puddicombe tells us about the possibility that electric cars pollute more than gasoline powered cars. Puddicombe explains how certain provinces in Canada do not have eco-friendly methods of producing electricity. Some provinces burn coal, some burn natural gas and some use hydro electric damming to make electricity. Puddicombe has come to the conclusion that electric cars are greener in certain…

efficient and enable transportation of a big number of passengers at once. This research focuses on electric trains that use the 25Kv AC railway electrification system. The current state-of-the-art electric train systems High-speed (HS) train technology is the current state-of-the-art in electric train transport systems. High-speed trains are inter-city trains that operate at high speeds and have traction motors in almost all the cars, that is the driving car and the passenger cars, which allow…