SWOT Analysis: TESLA MOTORS By Xin Xiong August 10th 2014 Company Overview Founded in 2003 and based in Palo Alto‚ Tesla Motors is one of the leading high-tech automobile companies‚ which produce the fully electrical vehicles and powertrain elements. The company runs operations in 31 countries and hires over 6‚000 staff around the world. Tesla Motors has an increasingly high growth rate‚ recording its revenues of 2‚013‚496 in 2013 (See Figure 1). Sales of its current model‚ Tesla Model S‚ reach
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"Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla ’s work‚ the wheels of industry would cease to turn‚ our electric cars and trains would stop‚ our towns would be dark‚ our mills would be dead and idle. Yes‚ so far reaching is his work that it has become the warp and woof of industry... His name marks an epoch in the advance of electrical science. From that work has sprung a revolution..." -B.A. Behrend If you were to go to an encyclopedia and tried to find
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In 1882‚ Nikola Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field‚ a fundamental principle in physics and one of the greatest discoveries of all times. In February‚ 1882‚ Nikola Tesla was walking with his friend through a city park in Budapest‚ Hungary. Tesla was reciting stanzas from Goethe’s Faust‚ the sun was just setting‚ when suddenly the elusive solution to the rotating magnetic field‚ which he had been seeking for a long time‚ flashed through his mind. At this very moment‚ he saw clearly in
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Executive Brief for Tesla Motors Inc. To: Elon Musk‚ CEO of Tesla Motors‚ Inc. From: Yuan Gao (kiki) Re: Strategic Improvements for Current Situation Date: 5th Aug‚ 2012 Executive Summary Tesla Motors is a relatively new Silicon-Valley based company that designs and produces electronic vehicles. The company aims at producing consumer affordable price electronic automobiles with zero emissions in the next decade. Currently the CEO Musk is working on introducing the new electronic
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vehicles. With this “game changer”‚ new entrants like Tesla who focuses in the manufacturing of fully electric vehicles (EV) grew its presence and is now acknowledged globally as the market leader in the EV marketplace. Many big players also began to enter the electric vehicle market to meet the growing demand of sustainable technologies and retain market share (Chan‚ 2007). This assignment will examine the macroeconomic factors that affect Tesla Motors through the PESTLE analytical framework. Political
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Nikola Tesla By Karoline A. Woodhouse Introduction Although the use of electricity dates back to Benjamin Franklin’s days‚ it was not practical for use in the home until one person changed the way science thinks about it- Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla’s childhood‚ greatest inventions‚ and position as the electrician for the World’s Fair all shaped how he revolutionized the use of electricity and brought it to everyone in America. Childhood and Personal Life Born in a farm house on July 9‚ 1856
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TESLA MOTORS INC FORMReport) 10-K (Annual Filed 03/07/13 for the Period Ending 12/31/12 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year 3500 DEER CREEK RD PALO ALTO‚ CA 94070 650-681-5000 0001318605 TSLA 3711 - Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies Auto & Truck Manufacturers Consumer Cyclical 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2013‚ EDGAR Online‚ Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online
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INTRODUCTION Company Mission Statement: "We fulfill dreams through the experience of motorcycling‚ by providing to motorcyclists and to the general public an expanding line of motorcycled and branded products and services selected market segments" Company Vision Statement: "Harley-Davidson is n action-oriented‚ international company‚ a leader in its commitment to continuously improve our mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders (customers‚ suppliers‚ employees‚ shareholders‚ government
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451 Sr. Design Tesla Turbine | | MLP’s MARE 451 Sr. Design Tesla Turbine | Table of Contents Duties and responsibilities Page 3 Discussion of Tesla Turbine Page 4 Brian’s Responsibilities Page 7 Drag Force equations Page 7 Torque equations Page 9 Horsepower equations Page 10 Pump specifications Page 11 Pump equations Page 12 Bearing selections Page 15 Pro E Modeling Page 17 Tesla Turbine Results Page 25 End Remarks
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April 9‚ 2013 E Block The Madness Of Nikola Tesla ! In “Tesla Man Out Of Time” by Margaret Cheney‚ Nikola Tesla was personified as an erratic and eccentric innovator . Along with crazy electric experiments and bizarre OCD fits‚ Tesla did invent marvelous inventions. These include the radio‚ Tesla Coil‚ alternating current (AC)‚ X-rays‚ and arguably a death ray. The radio was not invented by Tesla‚ rather it was revolutionized by Tesla. In the late 19th century radios were almost like telegraphs
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