currently sells the high tech, high performance, luxury sports car the “Roadster”, which sells for over $100,000. Tesla will be releasing its new “Model S” sedan later this year, which sells at a more attractive $50,000 to $60,000 range. According to an article in Just-Auto, the future success of the company is heavily reliant on the success of the Model S, as the company is currently only receiving revenue from the sale of batteries to two of its investors. The company went public in 2010, and quickly
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established a good value chain by its own network of sales and service centers and Supercharger stations globally to accelerate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The electric vehicles, electric vehicle engineering expertise and the business model highly differentiates the company from incumbent automobile manufacturers. However Tesla’s value chain is subject to certain limitations as high research and development costs and limited
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i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f h y d r o g e n e n e r g y 4 0 ( 2 0 1 5 ) 1 6 2 5 e1 6 3 8 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/he Changing the fate of Fuel Cell Vehicles: Can lessons be learnt from Tesla Motors? Scott Hardman a,*, Eric Shiu b, Robert Steinberger-Wilckens a Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK b Birmingham
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the end of the 2015, they estimate and will build over 200 stations throughout the United States. Meanwhile, they also will expand their Europe market, and China market. On the other hand, they have battery swap service in their superchargers, Model S is designed to allow a fast battery swap, exchanging your battery for a fully charged battery in less than half the time it takes to refill a gas tank. But for this service has one problem is consume want fast or free. I think tesla management depart
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3 Its Model S had sold more than the BMW 7 and Audi A8 combined.4 Tesla raised its Model S sales target for its first full year from 20,000 to 21,000 cars.5 Over the next three months, its stock price almost tripled.6 In its 10 years since founding, Tesla had launched both a high-end limited edition “Tesla Roadster” and its “Model S” production car, and was now taking reservations on its upcoming “Model X” electric crossover SUV. Despite a public controversy about its range, the Model S had
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Elon Musk Business & The Entrepreneur(HKMA) BHS0011 Jackson Wong Table of Contents Table of Contents Page 2 Portfolio Instructions Page3 Man of the Future Page4 SWOT Analysis Page5 Musk’s Methods Page6 Elon Musk: Man with Great Innovations Page7 Historic Moments of Elon Musk’s Companies Page9 Predicable Future Page12 References Page13 Please See Email for Google Drive Link to Portfolio! Man of the Future Elon Reeve Musk is a man of the future. As the co-founder
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Topic: Changing nature of work and implications for managers Introduction For this paper, we begin by looking at the definition of Organisation Behaviour with a focus on job satisfaction and motivation; and see how these two workplace behaviours apply to the employees at Tesla Motors and BMW Group. Furthermore, we determine the implications for managers as a result of the changes in the workplace. Finally, we finish off with a conclusion that allows us to ponder over the changes or adapt
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Tesla Motors 1. Should BMW expect Tesla to grow into a strong direct competitor like Audi, versus Tesla being limited to a niche or being just a flash in the pan? PRO Tesla is already profitable; costs will go down over time (especially battery); incredible product and it will be even more attractive once “newness” factor [fear of something new] goes away; Resale value guarantee; most people don’t need range and battery will improve and can be swapped; hard for traditional manufacturers
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the Tesla Roadster, in 2008. It was priced at $109,000 and could travel more than 200 miles per charge, twice as far as its competition. Tesla stopped producing the Roadster in 2011 as its contract with the key supplier expired, and launched the Model S in June 2012. The car ranges from $50,000 to $100,000 and can travel as far as 300 miles, depending on battery-size as well as the driver’s average speed. *Image adapted from Tesla Motors’ official website Furthermore, it takes about
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Primary Research Method Entering a Japan market, our company, Tesla Motors has decided on using the primary research approaches which is one of the popular market research techniques to obtain the research results that is useful for us. The research area that we are going to concentrate on is the customer in Japan. We will conduct this primary research by formulating a questionnaire as well as face-to-face interview to our respondents. The series of questions in the questionnaire will be created
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