2. JAGUAR LAND ROVER BACKGROUND Jaguar and Land Rover are two of the most iconic British brands. Jaguar Cars, founded in 1922, is one of the world’s premier manufacturers of luxury saloons and sports cars. Land Rover has been manufacturing 4x4s since 1948. Its products have defined the segments in which they operate, being known for extraordinary strength and durability. Ford Motor Company acquired Jaguar in 1989 and Land Rover in 2000. In 2008, Tata Motors buys the two brands after ten months
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tool to maximize production and profit. Summary Tesla Motors, Inc. is a company based in Silicon Valley. Telsa designs, manufactures, and sells electronic cars. Telsa is a publically traded company that trades in NASDAQ stock exchange. Telsa became well known after producing the Telsa Roadster, the first fully equipped eclectic sports car. In addition, Telsa also sells power train components like lithium-ion batteries to other auto makers. According to Morris (2012), “CEO Elon Musk announced that
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Electric Vehicle Conversion Literature Review Southern Illinois University Carbondale College of Engineering Senior Design Project Brocton Barras Joshua Day Matthew Griffin Andrew Phegley Nathan Smith Alex Turek 1 ORIGINALITY STATEMENT This paper conveys research pertinent to the design and construction of a unique electric vehicle in a form that is easily understood. Unique characteristics include dual, independently controlled A/C drive motors, elimination of traditional mechanical
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TESLA MOTORS SWOT Analysis Anandita Jindal Tesla Motors is a car company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles. Ian Wright, JB Straubel, Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk founded this public company in 2003. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California, with its main production plant in Fremont, California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla, a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to increase the number of EV’s (Electric
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MARKETING PLAN TESLA MODEL S MKTG 533 – Competitive Marketing Strategy Background Tesla has disrupted the auto manufacturing industry by promoting sales of its lavish vehicles to an upscale market that are car enthusiasts. This niche of luxury electric car maker allows Tesla to be creative in its approach when selling to new customers. With no Tesla dealers, no commissioned salespeople, and a firm price, Tesla has a unique way of attracting customers. Tesla began by issuing a high-end
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56 Future Accomplishments: Waiting for Someone to go First historical perspective, new strategy, people making a difference, powerful idea, social trends, technology trends June 8th, 2012 inShare24 On May 24th, Gary Connery, a 42 year old stuntman from Oxfordshire, England jumped from a helicopter hovering over one mile in the air over southern England, and glided to the earth using a specially designed wing suit. His runway was comprised of a cobbled-up crash-pad fabricated from 18,000 cardboard
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differentiators for the Volvo car company. Another benefit is that once it is put in place, it has no place to go but up and “continue to improve with time”. Volvo Car Corporation transform data into knowledge by creating vehicles with hundreds of sensors and CPU’s embedded throughout the car. “Besides vehicle data gathered by sensors in and on the vehicle, we also collect visual information from four cameras. This gives us a good view of what happened in the car and on the road at any given point
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States, people who die on the road are usually the drivers of automobiles. In the developing world, the most vulnerable, in order, are pedestrians; passengers on minibuses, buses, and trucks; and cyclists. They share the same road at the same time with cars, various motorized two- and three-wheeled rigs, and people riding or driving domestic animals. Traffic safety laws that exist may go unenforced because of a lack of police resources. Drivers’ licenses and road-worthiness inspections of vehicles may
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face many challenges when it comes to capturing, storing, searching, and analyzing Big Data. Big Data is a term used to describe the voluminous amount of structured and semi-structured data generated by companies. This paper will focus on The Volvo Car Corporation and how they were able to face this problem due to its voluminous amounts of data being streamed for their vehicles. I will go over how Volvo was able to integrate Cloud infrastructure into its networks, explain how they transformed their
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Highly-Efficient Battery Chargers with ParallelLoaded Resonant Converters Ying-Chun Chuang e-mail:chuang@mail.ksu.edu.tw Yu-Lung Ke e-mail:yulungke@ms25.hinet.net Shun-Yi Chang e-mail:nickelayu@hotmail.com Department of Electrical Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan Hsien 71003, Taiwan, R.O.C. Abstract—The well established advantages of resonant converters for battery chargers, including fast response, low switching losses, easy of the control scheme, simplicity of circuit configuration
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