...Ruiz 1 History 12 17 June 2015 Nikola Tesla: The Father Of Electricity Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in what is today the Republic of Croatia. Tesla grew up in a time where young men had two choices in their lifelong professions, join the army or be a priest. His dad being a priest, one would think a young Tesla would follow in his footsteps, but he didn’t. Luckily for Tesla his love and passion for electricity and inventing would lead him to Joanneum Polytechnic School in Graz, Austria. This is where his professor Jacob Poeschi brought a generator to his physics class and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson states in her book ar of The Currents that while W watching the dynamo perform, Tesla thought it was needlessly complicated (page 16). When Tesla voiced his opinion, his teacher didn’t like that very much. Poeschi would spent the rest of the class explaining why Tesla’s idea would not work. Tesla was humiliated by the criticism of his teacher, but he didn’t let it sway him.He believed in his heart that he could make a system for powering machines with alternating current. There is something about great thinkers and the way they use criticism and negative energy to fuel their own inventive power, and Tesla was no exception. One afternoon while walking through the park in Budapest with a good friend. The setting sun brought on a spark of inspiration inside Tesla's mind. Dropping to the ground, he grabbed a nearby twig and started to draw a diagram in the dirt...
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...Daniel Ammar Ziv Livne Guillaume Lesouhaitier Date: 11 December 2013 Group Assignment December 2013 High-Technology Acquisitions DAIMLER | TESLA MOTORS -i- Contents Page 1 2 3 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 5 5.1 5.2 6 6.1 6.2 6.3 7 8 8.1 8.2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 ACQUIRER OVERVIEW | DAIMLER ............................................................................. 1 TARGET OVERVIEW | TESLA MOTORS ..................................................................... 3 STRATEGIC APPROACH AND SYNERGIES EVALUATION ...................................... 5 THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET ................................................................................... 5 DAIMLER'S MOTIVATION TO ENTER THE MARKET............................................................. 6 DAIMLER'S MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE TESLA ................................................................... 6 DAIMLER ADVANTAGE TO ACQUIRE TESLA OVER COMPETITORS ........................................ 7 MOVE FROM PARTNERSHIP WITH TESLA TO ACQUISITION ................................................ 7 TESLA'S MOTIVATION .................................................................................................... 8 DAIMLER AND TESLA SYNC ............................................................................................ 9 TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY MATRIX ............................
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...Political With offering autos in 18 nations of North America, Western Europe and Asia (Tesla, 2014),Tesla Motors need to manage unique political examples affecting its business activities. One of the major political elements influencing the business is ecological insurance laws to impel creation of more natural autos to meet strict emanation levels. The other critical component is US government vitality advance projects for innovative work of new vehicle innovations (Department of Energy, 2010). For this situation, numerous vehicle producers will be intrigued by entering the business sector. US $8 billion project for cutting edge vehicle advances backings building and the production of model S and the advancement of power train innovation. Department of energy conceded $465 million credit to Tesla in 2009 to support in its operation. 3.2 Economic Economic conditions are now improving after GFC.A moderate but steady economic growth with low inflation, readily available credit,low interest rate can be expected. These conditions will inspire and motivate consumers to buy new cars. The buyers who cancelled their sales during recession will reconsider the decision and drive them to the auto market. 3.3 Social Social components are identified with expansion of natural concerns, mentality and accentuation on items that are eco amicable. Purchasers are losing confidence in gas fuel and related cost in generation, attempting to help nature's turf. Also, without a doubt the...
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...FRANK T. ROTHAERMEL DAVID R. KING Tesla Motors, Inc. January 1, 2015. Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla is taking it easy on this New Year’s Day. While having his coffee, he scrolls through some recent issues of The Wall Street Journal on his iPad. A headline from one current story jumps out at him, “Gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record.”1 The slide in gas prices, which began in September 2014, also happened to coincide with the slide in Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock. With increasing oil, and therefore gas, prices, people had an incentive for purchasing electric cars. Now with gas prices drop- ping, the incentive to buy would start to become less of one, and the demand for the product would probably drop. This was one of the challenges facing Musk on this New Year’s Day. In addition to hav- ing to contend with lower selling costs due to rising production, Tesla was also confronting increasing competition and economic headwinds that were likely going to lower the demand for electric cars. Musk is a serial entrepreneur longing to leave a legacy, and he believes that Tesla just might be the company that will help him leave his mark. He has a large profile already and has been described as “Henry Ford and Robert Oppenheimer in one person,” as well as “Tony Stark, the eccentric inventor better known as Iron Man.”2, 3 (In fact, Musk made a cameo appearance in Iron Man 2.) But, with sev- eral pressing...
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...enter business of selling strawberries. • The company wants to create an agricultural engineering business that will focus on factory design, technology that monitors growing conditions, and maintenance. • The company will also begin to sell sensors that will enable companies to monitor the purification of the air. • Shift from consumers to business customers. Since Sharp’s conception, they have had two major shifts in their core business. Originally a mechanical pencil maker, the company has, now, long been known for consumer electronics, namely their TVs. With their consumer-electronics suffering, and reporting of a $5.3 billion net loss, the company could be forced to shift their corporate level strategy. Sharp has started a project in which they will be growing strawberries in a controlled location near Dubai. They will be gathering data on how its cultivation techniques work to “achieve stable production of high-quality strawberries.” The company will not enter the business of selling strawberries, but rather an agricultural engineering business that will focus on technology to monitor growing conditions. With that said, Sharp is shifting from consumers to business customers. Sharp’s concentration is horizontal expansion. It isn’t really addressed in the article, but they have expanded into new segments within their core industry. One example would be Sharp’s TVs, they are in both high-end and low-end segments. Related diversification is present in Sharp because...
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...November 25, 2012 Nikola Tesla Few people recognize his name today, and even among those who do, the words Nikola Tesla are likly to summon up the image of a crackpot rather than an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a genius who is not only credited with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes world-transforming, devices that are even simply amazing by todays scientific standards. Tesla was born at precisely midnight between July 9th and 10th, 1856, in a small Hungarien village. He was born to his father, a priest, and his mother, an unschooled but extremely intelligent women. Training for an engineering career, he attendedthe Technical University of Graz, Austria and was shortly employed in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made his first invention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884, arriving in New York City with four cents in his pocket, and many great ideas in his head. He first found employment with a young Thomas Edison in New Jersey, but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period, during which Tesla invented but lost his...
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...International Expansion Report Tesla Motors, Inc. November 21, 2011 Rio Consulting Group Michael Dawes James Hadel Daniel Ma Simon Qin International Expansion Report | Tesla Motors, Incorporated | Rio Consulting Group Executive Summary Founded in 2003, Tesla strives to design, develop, manufacture and sell high-performance fully electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. Currently, Tesla’s presence internationally is limited to dealerships in Europe and a minor production plant in Britain. In order to be best positioned moving forward, we recommend expanding into Latin America and Asia Pacific to better fulfill CEO Elon Musk’s primary goal to commercialize electric vehicles all the way to mass market. As we predict slow growth for the standard auto industry, we believe the electric vehicle industry is extremely attractive for several reasons, including high oil prices, less greenhouse gas emissions and government incentives. Our best estimates suggest the electric vehicle industry will have average growth rates of 35 – 40% over the next 10 years. International expansion, if done correctly, can help improve upon Tesla’s current strategic position in order to become the global leader in electric vehicles. We have determined that the optimal points of entry for the market are in Brazil and Singapore. In addition to gained access to the two fastest growing regions in the segment, the two locations are attractive for many political, economic,...
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...Wireless Transmission of Energy Using Tesla Coil Submitted by:- Komal Bhorkar (B-1) Pranjali Ramtekkar (B-3) Sonal Thakre (B-7) Satyam Divecha (B-61) B.E VII SEMESTER Under Guidance of:- Prof. J.G.Chaudhary DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING G. H. RAISONI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, NAGPUR. (An autonomous institute under UGC Act 1956 & affiliated to RTMNU) Abstract Tesla coils are unique in the fact that they create extremely powerful electrical fields. Our objective is to use this field to light up florescent light placed at some distance and because of the fact that it is an electric field that goes directly into the light and doesn't use the electrodes; even burned-out florescent lights will glow. The significant part of our proposed plan is that power is transferred wirelessly. The field produced is without any radiations and hence is harmless to human beings. I. Introduction Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla Coil, a type of air-cored resonant transformer, which is used to generate high voltage and high frequency electrical currents. Tesla coils are used to produce high-voltage, low-current, and high-frequency alternating-current. It can produce higher voltages than other artificial sources of high-voltage discharges and electrostatic machines. It takes the output from a 230vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage. II. Basic Scheme of Tesla Coil A Tesla coil is a resonant transformer containing...
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...who their main competitors were, they replied our current competitors for Faraday include Tesla and Apple, even though Apple doesn’t have a car. Faraday Future’s (FF) vision is focused on the equal importance between automotive and technology. The company wants to build a brand that will change the world by making intelligent vehicles. This will certainly be a challenge for Faraday’s design team who claim to have a pioneer spirit and don’t need a safety net. The designer’s enthusiasm reflects the company’s vision in technology and design which could make a difference in the way cars are made in the future. New technology in vehicles could actually improve safety and reduce auto-related fatalities. Faraday is ready for the challenge and making a difference. Tesla Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars. With instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions, Tesla’s product would be cars without compromise. Each new generation would be increasingly affordable, helping the company work towards its mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transportation. Tesla’s engineers first designed a powertrain for a sports car built around an AC induction motor, patented in 1888 by Nikola Tesla, the inventor who inspired the company’s name. The resulting Tesla Roadster was...
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...Corporate strategies for Tesla 1. Open patents As an electric car pioneer, Tesla had always playing a traditional IP game, holding more than 1,400 patents. However, on June 12, 2014, Tesla CEO Elon musk surprised all by releasing its patents and said that the company would not challenge infringements on most of its patents (Musk, 2014). Some say that this particular strategic move of Tesla will make the company suffer in the end since all its competitors could get access to its IP. But Elon Musk thinks different in his announcement by saying that instead of the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, the true competition is the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories everyday. The whole electric car industry and the world would benefit from a common, rapid-evolving technology platform (Musk, 2014). We perceived this strategy to be really effective and try to analyze impacts of this move on both the EV industry as a whole and on Tesla itself. * Creating affordable mass market of electric vehicles. By opening its patents, not only some small or medium-size car manufacturers but also some high-end premium car manufacturers like Mercedes could use Tesla’s technology to build EVs thus enlarge the EV market. Also that makes Tesla technology becomes a standard and most companies producing electric vehicles will dependent on Tesla’s improvement. * Promoting standardization. Tesla could set the industry standard...
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...A person who invents a particular process or device is considered an inventor. An invention’s impact on humanity is what separates it’s inventor from others. Of the many inventions by Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943), it is commonly accepted that his invention of Alternating Current (AC) and the AC Generator changed the way humans live indefinitely. With such a great impact to humanity it is surprising that the average person does not recognize his name or what he did. Over the next few paragraphs the research will discuss Nikola Tesla’s career which includes the invention of alternating current, his ongoing quarrel with Thomas Edison, and his controversial recognition. According to the myth, Nikola Tesla was born at midnight on July 10, 1856 during an electrical storm (Ancient, 2010) in an expiring Empire of Austro-Hungary, modern day Croatia. Milutin Tesla, his father of Serbian origin, was an Orthodox Priest. Nikola wanted to study engineering in a renowned Austrian Polytechnic School but was constantly oppressed by his father who wanted him to also join priesthood. After Nikola contracted Cholera, his father promised him that if he survived he would allow him to pursue his dreams of becoming an engineer (Tesla, 2004). Duka Mandic, Nikola’s mother and also of Serbian origin, was a hard working woman of many talents. She was also an inventor whom made tools and devices for her weaving, carpentry, and other handiwork (Glenn, J, 1994). She was descended...
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...products. A paramount challenge for Tesla and our potential launch as competition in the electric vehicle market is meeting realizing the break even point is possible given production capacity. Demand for functional, quality electric vehicles is high and one consideration that has given stockholders pause in considering their investment is determining whether Tesla can meet production requirements to break even and eventually profit. There is a strong demographic for customers of electric cars as there are many Americans interested in saving money on fuel consumption and being more ecologically responsible with lessened emissions and carbon footprint. California is a stronghold for the electric automotive market because of higher gas prices and belief system of those who live there. The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing fairly rapidly according to new analysis from the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — with more than 320,000 new EV registrations in 2014, bringing the total global market up to 740,000 vehicles. These numbers will continue to grow as fuel prices continue being instable and as new EV makers figure out ways to capture potential buyers with state of the art design and performance technology. Generating enough units in production to satisfy the break even point has been a key consideration for Tesla and any future electric car company would certainly have to compare their startup process to that of Tesla motors. Tesla Motors is a technologically advanced...
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...MAR 675: STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING CASE STUDY: TESLA MOTORS 2/16/2015 1. Introduction * Background and summary Tesla Motors (TSLA) is an automobile company founded in 2003 in San Carlos, California. It mainly produces electric vehicles and electronic vehicle power train components. Tesla’s first product is the Roadster, which is the first fully electric sport car, and gained much widespread attention. Then it delivered a five-seat vehicles Model S in 2012 and seven-seat Model X and 3 in 2014, which all sell well in the United States and worldwide. Tesla is worth more than 25 billion in 2014. Tesla has the direct automobile manufacturer competitors including Ford Motor Company, General Motor, Honda Motor and etc. Also, it has the other pressure coming from the traditional gas propulsion manufacturers. * PESTEL Analysis P (Political Factors): The environment protection laws in the United State have heavy influence on the car industry. Since electric cars save a significant portion of the energy and make less pollution to the environment, especially pure electric cars like Tesla’s, they are kindly accepted and supported by the government. E (Economic Factors): In the awake of the 2008 financial crisis, the consumption of vehicles in the United States increases with the GDP increases. However, because the gas price is decreasing in recent years (See the chart below), traditional gas-based cars take an advantage in the vehicle industry. Also, because Tesla’s...
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...teslaTesla Biography NIKOLA TESLA THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD Nikola Tesla symbolizes a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the name of peace and science. He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development. New York State and many other states in the USA proclaimed July 10, Tesla’s birthday- Nikola Tesla Day. Many United States Congressmen gave speeches in the House of Representatives on July 10, 1990 celebrating the 134th anniversary of scientist-inventor Nikola Tesla. Senator Levine from Michigan spoke in the US Senate on the same occasion. The street sign “Nikola Tesla Corner” was recently placed on the corner of the 40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. There is a large photo of Tesla in the Statue of Liberty Museum. The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey has a daily science demonstration of the Tesla Coil creating a million volts of electricity before the spectators eyes. Many books were written about Tesla : Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O’Neill and Margaret Cheney’s book Tesla: Man out of Time has contributed significantly to his fame. A documentary film Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Lit the World, produced by the Tesla Memorial Society and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Orson Welles), BBC Film Masters of the Ionosphere are other tributes to the great genius. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856...
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...SECTION I: Introduction/Executive Summary Tesla Motors, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. Named after the scientist Nikola Tesla, Tesla Motors ($TSLA) was founded in 2003. Exactly who founded Tesla Motors can be discussed, but it was probably by a group of intrepid Silicon Valley engineers Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Wright. Their goal was to build an electric vehicle with the same performance as a Porsche and more environmental friendly than a Toyota Prius. The problem was that the founders didn't have the money needed to realize their idea, so they contacted Elon Musk, who decided to invest in the company. Elon Musk had earlier founded the companies Zip2, PayPal, and SpaceX. The difference between Elon Musk and the founders was that Elon Musk wanted Tesla Motors to become an improved General Motors with several car models, while the original founders wanted to design only a sports car. Elon Musk became interested in electric cars because he is well aware of peak oil. The idea behind peak oil is that oil is a finite resource we will run out of. Elon Musk believes the production of oil will begin to decrease after year 2020. As the production of oil decreases, the price of oil will increase and more people will buy electric cars SECTION II: Current Situation Tesla Motors headquarters is in Palo Alto, California. Its goal is to speed up this transition from gasoline cars to...
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