MKT 615 – MARKETING PLAN
Tesla Motors Marketing Plan
GROUP 4
Mathalikunnel, Sebastian Sunny
Medipally, Krishna Chaitanya
Medishetti, Naresh Kumar
Ogunrayi, Olufunke
Pan, Yiran
Patel, Kiran
Patel, Malaykumar Shashikant EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background
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 motors is creating new generation of cars that would be increasingly affordable, helping the company to work towards its mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transport.
Tesla’s headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California and has over 2000 employees. It has 31 stores and service locations spread across the globe with more stores expected to open in the future. Tesla engineers first designed a powertrain for a sports car built around an AC induction motor, patented in 1988 by Nikola Tesla, the inventor who inspired the company’s name. The result was the launch of the Roadster, a solely electric operated sports car accelerating from 0 to 60mph in 3.7 seconds and achieving a range of 245 miles/charge of its Lithium ion battery. Tesla hereafter expanded its technological advantage to the luxury sedan market with the launch of Model S, a sustainable luxury sedan with zero emission.
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Goals
“To accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing
Tesla Motors Inc. is an American public company which is known worldwide because of its experience in designing, manufacturing and also the selling of electric cars and electric components for vehicles. The motor was started back in the year 2003 in San Carlos, California in the United States (Teslamotors.com, 2014). The company had its headquarters in Palo Alto and at the time of its inception, Elon Musk was its chief executive officer (CEO) (Hunger, 2010).
Tesla Motors was founded during the year of 2003 in silicon valley, with one goal; to create a more sustainable way to power vehicles. Tesla strives to produce high quality electric cars at an affordable price. Tesla produces three models; the model s, the model x and the model 3, a wide price range allows anyone to make the transition from gasoline powered vehicles to electric powered vehicles.
We design, develop, manufacture and sell high-performance fully electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. We have established our own network of sales and service centers and Supercharger stations globally thus creating a unique business model in the automobile industry. We
Tesla is one of the newest car companies around, but they have had a long road to where they are today. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors in July 2003
Founded in 2003, Tesla is an electric car manufacture company that started in California, they are considered leader in its category. Tesla electric cars not only outsold Nissan Leaf and GM electric cars in US. Their latest Model S had also outsold BMW 7, Audi 8. Tesla is also targeting SUV consumers with their Model X.
Tesla Motors, Inc. is US based Company which designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and
Tesla Motors Inc. was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers, one of whom is now the current CEO, Elon Musk. The company was founded on the ideals of not having to compromise to drive electric. These vehicles would be “better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars” (About Tesla). Tesla launched its first car in 2008, the Tesla Roadster. It is known as the first car to use a lithium-ion battery and revealed Tesla’s cutting-edge electric powertrain. Since then, Tesla has been able to expand with the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 (that has just begun production this year). Not only do they build electric cars but have expanded into scalable clean energy generation, storage products, and charging stations.
Tesla Motors based in Palo Alto California, was founded in 2003 by Jeffrey B. Straubel, Elon R. Musk and Marc Tarpenning. This American company designs and manufactures electric-powered automobiles and operates as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), manufacturing electric-based power plant components for other automakers. Tesla is currently investing in the design of battery-efficient, cheaper, mass-market electric car models.
This paper presents a marketing plan for the Electric Car Corporation (ECC); a first mover in manufacturing an electric car in the United Kingdom. The paper starts with a brief introduction to the company, its product offerings, and areas of operations and then explains why a marketing plan is essential in the strategic planning process of an organization. Afterwards, the process of new product development at ECC has been discussed. The marketing plan starts with a comprehensive situational and SWOT analysis of the company as well as its new product offering. In this paper, the SWOT Analysis is done to analyze the company's core strengths, major weaknesses, potential opportunities and threats which can be helpful for its short term and long term marketing planning.
Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the Series A round of funding. Both men played active roles in the company 's early development prior to Elon Musk 's involvement. Tesla was founded in 2003 by engineers who had a mission to change the way the we thought of cars, and to convince our world that we can produce an electric car better than gasoline powered cars. In 1888 Nikola Tesla invented the first powertrain for a sports car built around an AC induction motor, which was later patented and inspired the company’s name. The Tesla Roadster was launched in 2008 with speeds of 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds and with a range of 245 miles per hour. (Tesla Motors) Later in 2012 they launched Model S the first premium electric sedan. Robotic manufacturing of the Model S at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. Tesla manufactures the Model S in Fremont, California, in an assembly plant formerly operated by NUMMI, a defunct joint venture of Toyota and General Motors, now called Tesla Factory.
Tesla Motors is a global enterprise specializing in the design, production, and marketing of electric powered vehicles founded in 2003 by the young businessman, Elon Musk. Elon is well known for co-founding paypal, and now he amazes the world again with his incredible vision of Tesla Motors, and being the main product architect. Tesla Motors appeals to the environmentally friendly market, by currently being the only company to sell a zero-emission sports car. Tesla’s fundamental motive and selling point is producing only electric vehicles, as opposed to competing companies, producing a combination hybrid, or diesel car.
Between 2003 and 2013 Tesla was arguably one of the most controversial companies. An innovative company with a breakdown idea, had no financial success in its first decade. With the addition of Elon Musk in 2008, Tesla had a fresh new face at the stern of its company and was poised to make big strides into the future. Those strides finally broke through in 2013 with its first truly positive financial year. However, this year was not without trouble as Tesla found itself in the news for the wrong reasons. On several occasions their Model S design had issues with car fires. Though this did not cause a complete catastrophe, it cased questions to the true safety of their vehicles. Tesla would fight back by arguing the safety of their vehicles saved the drivers lives in addition to unforeseen circumstances that caused the fires. Because of these incidents, investors did get spooked and expectation for the remainder of 2013 and projected 2014 were lowered, yet once again Tesla powered through and had their best year of existence. With these above factors, Tesla is at a true crossroads: do they continue the uphill climb that 2013 presented, or do they falter and fall pretty to its competitors.
Without wishing to belittle the other car manufacturers, Tesla Motors has gained in his ten years of life can be considered the brand of electric cars. Thus, he was born in 2003 as a manufacturer exclusively of 100% electric cars, with an eye to the future and investing with determination and no little risk for them.
Tesla Motors Incorporated, an American company that designs, produces, and sells electric vehicles and their electric components, has become one of the fastest growing car companies in recent history. The company’s main goal was to start creating electric vehicles that were accessible and affordable to the public. Founded in 2003 and taking off successfully by 2009, Tesla Motors started selling the first mass-produced vehicle to use lithium-ion battery cells and hold a range of greater than 200 miles on just one charge. Along with building their own electric vehicle models, Tesla also builds electric powertrain components for vehicles from other automakers including cars such as the Toyota RAV4 electric vehicle. Tesla has begun to maximize
Tesla Motors Inc is one of the leading companies for designs, develops, manufactures, and selling electric cars and energy storage products. Founded in 2003 the major specialization of the company is software for automated cars, cars powered by electric energy and solar for home power.