It is because cars contribute to almost more than one - third of air pollution. These made the car, in spite of its usefulness, a health and nature hazard. Now, steps are being made to find ways in order to make the cars more eco - friendly. These steps resulted to the revival of the concept of electric cars. Electric cars are not new.
If you choose the former option of buying an already electrically converted car you may have to visit eBay, Craig’s List EVFinder or such other websites. And if you happen to make up your mind to convert your own car into an electrically driven one, you would have to spend around $6000 for the components and another $1000 to $3000 for the batteries inclusive of installation charges. The internal combustion engine would have to be totally replaced by an electric motor along with an addition of a new set of batteries. But if you are the kind of person who really care about our environment and the surroundings then the transition is well worth. Although the expense would increase a bit on consumption charges for each mile but the maintenance charges are sure to come down.
The different strategies that they used included the following: Product Line Strategy: With this strategy Tesla has introduced two models that were rapidly advancing through the pipeline. The company’s strategic intent was to broaden its customer base by offering not only a bigger model variety but also by introducing substantially cheaper models. The two new models included The Tesla Roadster and The Model S. Each appealed to different consumers. The Tesla Roadster was the company’s first model and was a 2-Seat convertible that had several different warranty options, but sales for this model ended in December 2012 so that the company could concentrate exclusively on producing and marketing the Model S. The Model S sedan began shipments in June. This was a four door, five-passenger luxury sedan that costs around $128,500.
1. How will Toyota attain leadership in the hybrid electric vehicle segment? Aggressive pursuit of the disruptive HEV technology focusing on the consumers needs. Also focusing on providing extended driving range, higher mpg tan conventional vehicles, even HEVs; and half toxic emissions for Toyotas HEVs. They would also make the Prius look and feel as normal as possible to turn into a mainstream product for the consumers.
Electric cars should become the standard for the future, instead of gas-fueled cars, because the benefits greatly out way the costs. Hybrid cars are based on two technologies working together, the internal combustion engine working with an electric propulsion system. These two systems were combined to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle, or better performance. The basic idea is that using the two technologies together will allow a car to get more miles per gallon of gasoline. Many people have probably owned a hybrid vehicle at some point.
TESLA MOTORS INC. Competitive Position Analysis & Future Growth Strategy CSTR_Group F11 MOONIS AHMED, MANISH AGARWAL, NIKHIL RATANPAL, HARSH SUREKA TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 2 Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 2 Automotive Industry and Tesla Motors .......................................................................................... 3 2.1 2.2 2.3 3 History – The Early Years......................................................................................................... 3 Tesla Motors ........................................................................................................................... 3 Current Market Scenario......................................................................................................... 4 Industry analysis: Electric cars ........................................................................................................ 5 3.1 3.2 Electric Car Industry Structure before Tesla opened up its patents ....................................... 5 Electric Car Industry Structure after Tesla opened up its patents .......................................... 6 4 5 Financial Analysis and Investor’s view ............................................................................................ 7 Tesla’s Competitive Advantage ....................................................................................................... 8 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Innovative Lithium ion batteries ............................................................................................. 8 Large Network of Supercharger stations ................................................................................ 9 Unique direct-to-customer selling model
Gases are non-renewable source of energy and therefore after several decades of the evolution of cars, the world is suffering from depletion. During some time in the early years of the twentieth century, hybrid cars were introduced by Baker of Cleveland and Woods of Chicago. (http://www.hybridcars.com/history/history-of-hybrid-vehicles.html) However, this great invention was soon challenged by the gasoline-powered cars in the sense of noise, weight and vibration. Full hybrid cars are vehicles which were made such as it can run on just engines, or on the batteries, or even better on a combination of both. This is because each hybrid cars contains two motors which also are its strengths and weaknesses.
2) Contrast the traditional Porsche customer decision process to the decision process for a Cayenne or a Panamera customer. Traditional Porsche customer aware of the new model, and they are not sure if the new model has the high-performance of the other model or not. And customer started to test drive the car to see if these models meet the level of their expectation of Porsche. After the trial, customer adopted the new model and remains the loyalty to Porsche because of the wonderful and enjoyable experience of performance and luxury 3) Which concepts from the chapter explain why Porsche sold so many lower-priced models in the 1970s and 1980s? The concepts of Cultural Factors, the values of a Porsche are high and it is a want to customers, when these wants is affordable to customers, they will buy it.
Starting a career in sales is more realistic than jumping to the management and distribution of some of the world’s most luxurious cars such as Bentley and Aston Martin. A well-organized and professional car salesman should be knowledgeable about the cars he or she is
I also think the technology exists to boost up the miles per gallon (mpg) a car can have. I believe this because if we have the technology to clone animals and reproduce children without mothers, than we should have the technology to boost our cars mpg. The benefit of a car with a higher mpg will in turn produce a lower carbon emission rating, which means cleaner air with less carbon dioxide. Driving a car is the most common air polluting act a human commits. They commit this on a daily basis with little knowledge of it.