FINC 664W University of Redlands Capstone Paper General Motors and Tesla Merger Juan Carrillo‚ Shane Cheek‚ Jeffrey Haynes‚ and Peter Delacruz February 23‚ 2013 Dear Fellow Shareholders: A meeting of Shareholders is scheduled for Saturday‚ February 23‚ 2013. Enclosed is a copy of our proxy statement. At this meeting of shareholders‚ the Board of Directors will be seeking approval to acquire Tesla Motors. The Board of Directors believes that this merger will provide General Motors
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introduced by Toyota Sakichi .This brought about the Japanese word‚ Kaizen meaning continuous improvement . By using the Kaizen theory of continuous improvement‚ Japan caught up the U.S. auto makers during the 1980’s. Toyota has also introduced it’s newest hybrid power car‚ Toyota Pirus‚ at the 2003 New York Auto Show and hit the dealerships in the fall of 2004 (Toyota). In September of 2003‚ orders for the new and improved Pirus totaled 17‚500 which is five times more then the company target of 3000 (MSNBC)
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began to rise. In the beginning‚ electric cars were very slow. They took a long time to reach high way speed and they could not travel very far. But when gas prices began to rise the need for an alternative increased. The most popular option was a hybrid. This was a car that had both a gasoline engine and electrical engines.
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Honda Introduction and Overview Honda Motor Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1948 and originally manufactured and sold motorcycles (Whiston‚ 2012). Today‚ Honda is known for its manufacturing of many items – motorcycles‚ power products‚ engines (boat‚ generators and lawnmowers); and even private jets and robots (Whiston‚ 2012). For purposes of this research‚ however‚ we ’ll focus on Honda ’s auto-manufacturing abilities. During fiscal year 2012‚ Honda sold 15.7 million cars and motorcycles; automobiles
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Electric Vehicle (EV)‚ Diesel and Fuel Cells. However‚ a new standard of source of vehicles power has not been established yet. As the result car manufacturer tend to develop several new alternative power sources. Honda for example‚ while developing Hybrid Electric VehicleHEV (the Insight) it also develop a fuel cells vehicles (FCV). The purpose of this report is to analyze the business situation regarding the development and marketing of alternative-fuel vehicles in the US and proposing a new product
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Order Qualifiers and Order Winners for Toyota: Order Qualifiers can be described as aspects of competitiveness where the operation’s performance has to be above a particular level to be considered by the customer. Order Qualifiers may not be the major competitive determinants of success but are important in another way. (Jones‚ Robinson 2007) Order Winning Factors are those things which directly and significantly contribute to wining business. They are regarded by customers as key reasons for purchasing
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zero. Many believe that electric cars can solve all the problems‚ and help the environment and economy in the process‚ but could electric cars have a dark side nobody thinks about? Hybrid cars require less gasoline‚ therefore using less of the fossil fuels. “The Prius often ran on battery power”(David). Because hybrid/electric cars have batteries‚ and are powered by electricity‚ they do not use much‚ if any fuel in a stop and go environment
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DOE/ID-11069 Octoberr 2003 FreedomCAR Battery Test Manual For Power-Assist Hybrid Electric Vehicles Disclaimer This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof‚ nor any of their employees‚ makes any warranty‚ express or implied‚ or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy‚ completeness‚ or usefulness of any information‚ apparatus‚ product‚ or process
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department. It is better to have a research and development offices around the world according to their sales market to meet the local demand which will lead to rise in the net revenue. One of the most powerful and reliable products that Toyota has is the Hybrid cars‚ which helped the company to recover from it crisis. So Toyota should meet the demand on the environmental cars by finding new and creative environment friendly cars such as the electric car. Toyota is the world’s largest automaker‚ which means
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station on Weston road and I thought the car would be better than my VW Jetta but it wasn’t to me. Her Toyota Prius was slow and annoying to drive. I rather stick with my Jetta. I wonder if vehicles that run on gasoline are better than electric or hybrid cars? Now let me tell you some fun facts about vehicles that run on gasoline. Combustion engines have been around many years the first combustion engine to be in a car was back when henry ford came out with the first vehicle called the Model T in
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