Executive Summary: General Motors’ AUTOnomy Project GM’S STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY General Motors (GM) has invested heavily in technology to reduce emissions and vehicles powered by alternative fuels. Interest in alternative fuels was improved, driven by three factors: the concern over greenhouse gas emission, the increase dependency over US on oil and the concern that global demand for fuel would outstrip supply. GM has developed their strategy while facing many uncertainties regarding new alternative car technologies. In 1990, GM begins the development of electric and battery-powered vehicles. Given the high cost and limited range, sales were disappointing.
Lotus Rental Cars Executive Summary Introduction Lotus Rental Car’s Chief Financial Officer is looking for ways to increase profits and the consumer base by adding alternative fuel vehicles to the Lotus fleet. With fuel costs continuously rising, the need for alternative fuel vehicles is more attractive to consumers as a source of lower fuel prices. This appeal is not only to the regular rental car user but for the ecological minded occasional driver as well. Ecology and fuel efficiency are the cause for more people to start shopping for hybrid vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers are able to increase revenue with the sales of hybrids while increasing production to keep up with the demand.
Trucks are better than cars. Cars do have advantage. You get more gas mileage on a car then on a truck. With gas being so expensive, one day everyone would like to find a ways to save money. People struggle to fill up there tanks in a truck the reason why is because of gas prizes coming to their highest.
Hybrids have become very popular and more and more people are converting to them each day. Though the hybrids name, and sales rates are growing, there is always much controversy over the cost and maintenance on the hybrid vehicles. Aside from the controversy and opinions, even though hybrid vehicles have a slightly higher purchasing and maintenance cost, they are still much more efficient and will be cheaper on the owner throughout the vehicles life expectancy. The hybrid has made a name for itself, and when buying a new car, why not get one that will benefit for you most? The problem some people face though when looking for new vehicles is the fact that they don’t know much about the hybrid or electric vehicle, and they will pass by them without any knowledge of what they are.
This economic boom was based around consumer goods-luxury items that many Americans wanted to buy but didn’t really need. The ‘booming’ economy began to self-generate, many industries thriving off the success of each other. As more people were employed, they had more money to spend, which increased the demand for products and resulted further in the economic boom. The average household was beginning to be able to afford new products which were becoming much more affordable as increased popularity caused many products to be massed produced. Making the price of many new inventions and products more affordable for the general public.
Colton Greene Mr. Bates – 6 English Literature 12 12 February 2014 Senior Research Paper – Final Draft How Henry Ford Affected the Lives of the American People Imagine if Henry Ford did not invent the moving assembly line back in 1913. In that time, cars would not have been affordable and people would not have been able to get around as easily. If he did not make the first moving assembly line, most things today would not be as mass produced. Henry Ford directly impacted the lives of the people of his time by making cars more affordable and, without knowing, impacted the lives of many generations to come because the assembly line made it easier and faster to make products. To understand the impact of an assembly line one must first know what an assembly line is.
Was the motor car ownership the most important reason for improvements in the way of life for many Americans in the 1920s? (16) Ownership of a motor car in the 1920s was a factor in the improvements of the way of life for some Americans. There are other factors like new consumer goods, entertainment and prosperity. During the 1920s Americans where buying lots of new consumer goods these goods where was changing there lives. This is because they had access to radios and fridges really cheaply.
Research Paper Word Count: 1274 How successful can a company become before it is an economic danger for our country? That is the question a lot of Americans have begun to ask about the massive super store Wal-Mart. In a struggling American economy Wal-Mart thrives while smaller companies struggle and some even go bankrupt. There is always going to be companies that make it while others don’t, but when do American citizens need to step in and draw the line when one mega company like Wal-Mart becomes too powerful? With Wal-Mart using materials from other countries while its growing and expanding everyday it knocks out smaller businesses everywhere, which in turn hurts the economy and is literally a growing Monopoly in America, which we cannot
A single factory might hire thousands of workers. These jobs brought people to the cities. Third, the factory system allowed ordinary Americans to own all kinds of things. There were more goods to buy, and they became cheaper as methods of manufacturing continued to improve. For example, the first cars were so expensive that only rich people could afford to buy them but cars became cheaper when Ford invented the moving assembly line and the work went faster.
I think so many people have the personal experience. Faced with the mounting traffic problem, fortunately proposition 71 will help California solve the problem because it advise the government increase the investment in public transportation in California to reduce traffic jam and air pollution caused by automobile. Proposition 71 states that the state government should focus their money and energy on improving the California public transportation instead of building more road and freeways. The government should build more subway and bus lines, because public transportation is very convenient for people without a car, and it is very cheap and it is better for the environment and it is a better long-term solution for meeting the transportation demands of future in California. The traffic jams in large cities like Los Angeles are mainly because of the increase of the number of the private cars in California.