Business Management Internal Assessment (SL) Should Tesla develop e-bicycles to sell in the United States to expand its presence in the sustainability market? 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…
Solar Power for Everyone, or a Brand New House on Mars? “Zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, 250-MPH top speed, 620 mile range” (Siler 1). Those are only a few descriptions of the sleek 2017 Tesla roadster created by the company owned by Elon Musk. Musk is an entrepreneur and businessman born and raised in Africa. He attended numerous schools, the most notable of them being the Wharton School of Business. At a young age Musk was interested in computers and was already learning the skills he would later…
1.1 Introduction: Company Overview Named after the inventor Nikola Tesla, Tesla Motors was founded in Silicon Valley on July 2003. It is an American motorized and energy conserving company that designs, develops, and sells electrics cars and vehicle powertrain gears and battery merchandise made in their factory in Fremont, California. The founders wanted to introduce electric cars to the world which are environmentally friendly with no emissions and incredible power to show that electric cars…
The increasingly intensive scarcity of fuel resources is making an energy innovation race among vehicle manufacturers. Therefore, electric vehicle is considered as a sufficient solution for a sustainable transport industry. In the recent year, the number of electric vehicles sold out has been increased significantly throughout the world. This pattern has been formed by the awareness and action on reducing gas emission for the environmental benefits, simultaneously decrease the burden…
Tesla Tesla was born in 2003, in Silicon Valley, the engineers wanted to prove to the world that Battery powered vehicles where better then gas powered cars. Not only prove to the world that this technology would work but would also give off zero emissions. Tesla took a slow and painful entry into the car industry, it wasn't until 2008, when they released their first product the Roadster. The Roadster wasn't a huge success at all they only sold twenty-four thousand models which weren’t cheap.…
Introduction of the Organization Incorporated in 2003 and named for genius, Nikola Tesla, who invented the AC induction motor used in the Tesla Roadster, Tesla, Inc. was the brainchild of Silicon Valley engineers. The founding partnership between Martin Eberhart and Marc Tarpenning expanded to include fellow engineer, Ian Wright and product designer, Malcolm Smith. Several rounds of significant capital funding began when Elon Musk provided the initial financial investment, and became the…
Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) is an automaker, energy storage company, and solar panel manufacturer based in Palo Alto, California (Burns, 2015). The company is named after the famous electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla and was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, two engineers who wanted to prove to people that electric vehicles could be better, quicker, and more fun to drive than gasoline cars (Tesla, n.d). During the early years of its incorporation, Tesla…
Tesla motors was found by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003 by engineers in Silicon Valley. Tesla is the newest successful American motor company since Ford motors 111 years ago. These engineers wanted to prove to the world that electrically powered cars could be better than gas cars. Tesla’s first design was a sports car powertrain built around an AC induction motor which was patented in 1888 by Nikola Tesla. Then in 2008 they released this car as the Tesla Roadster. It amazed the…
Who you are? Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of Silicon Valley engineers. In addition to the three electric car models -Roadster, Model S, Model x- that Tesla makes, it offers SuperCharger and BatterySwap services. The Model S is a four-door premium sedan with a range of 265 miles on a single charge. Designed from the ground up as an electric car, the Model S combines superior vehicle engineering with Tesla's advanced electric powertrain technology. The Tesla Roadster accelerates…
Tesla Model S Sedan: An example of ad Project Management (Disclaimer, I am a huge fan of the Tesla product line) Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, has put together something no one previously thought was possible. An electric car that is practical and luxurious. Tesla sales have increased, 52% in Q2 2015 and are expected to continue to rise as more people become fed up with the oil industry and want to make a positive impact on the environment. Additionally Tesla cars have scored the highest…