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    powered vehicles are one of the many inventions that have become a huge part of everyone’s lives and has opened up a network of ways to travel and communicate with others from all over the country. On the other hand, petroleum powered cars have posed a huge threat over the years and has emerged as one of the top contributors to global warming. Electric cars have emerged as a way to solve the problem. Although, there are negative effects on the environment caused by all cars, the electric car is working

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    Electirc Car

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    the Electric Car 1832-1839 Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells. 1835 American Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practicalelectric vehicle -- a small locomotive. 1859 French physicist Gaston Planté invents the rechargeable lead-acid storage battery. In 1881, his countryman Camille Faure will improve the storage battery's ability to supply current and invent the basic lead-acid battery used

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    price tag and safety, uncertainties we experience pertaining to these types of vehicles. To illustrate this dilemma, approximately each home in the United States occupies one car fueled by gas. Flying cars like in the cartoon show The Jetsons do not exist; nonetheless, there is a superior solution. People should switch to Electric transportation because they provide ample benefits to our society such as

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    Battery powered automobiles are relatively new within the auto industry. Advancements in battery power technology along with the effect of gas emissions and crude oil prices have made battery power a more possible choice than ever before. Are battery powered cars marketable? That is the question that this research paper intends to answer. If battery power is a marketable alternative to gasoline power, what makes it profitable? Who is the target consumer? With the recent prices of oil, some people

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    Electric cars are becoming very popular in today’s world and are becoming more main stream. One reason for this is the need for automobiles that have a lower or a zero carbon footprint. For the majority of the history of the automobile, the propulsion system was a gas or a diesel engine that would run off of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is very hazardous to our world and also creates much toxic pollution. However, electric cars run off of electricity, which is a very clean and pollution

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    The sustainable Built Environment Research Paper Are Electric Cars Environment Friendly? Author :16042284 Image source: Geneva MotorShow (2013) Abstract : This paper caters to the reality, based on facts of carbon emissions, of electric cars doubting the “sustainability” factor for the claims of the cars. The paper details what exactly electric cars are, their manufacturing , mechanism and the carbon pollution emitted by them in the primary stage ,i.e. Manufacturing. Also, it throws a limelight

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    Tesla Motors, Inc. Essay

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    manufacturing and selling of their luxury electric vehicles (Eisler, 2016, p. 35). Tesla Motors, Inc. has a technological advantage in the battery market industry with their partnership with Panasonic. Panasonic and Tesla collaborated in the development of the Gigafactory, which “is designed to churn out cells for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) with a combined energy storage capacity of 35 GWh per year – more than the total energy storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries produced worldwide in 2013” (Martin

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    Tesla Motors Strategic Analysis Report Industry, Company Analysis and Recommendations on Accelerating Transition to a Solar-Electric Economy By Candela Díaz, Michelle Ikoma, Benton Moss, John Son, David Valenstein Introduction The United States automobile industry is one characterized by incumbent behemoth corporations whose distribution channels span the world. Companies like Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen form entire segments of their respective countries’ economies and have dominated

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    clean running electric vehicles. An EV (electric vehicle) is a vehicle that gets some or all of its power for propulsion from the electric grid. These cars present one of the best alternatives to gas based vehicles as they are environmentally friendly, and circumvent the distribution of harmful elements such as carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Some of the manufactures for the EVs and their models include the Nissan LEAF, the Mitsubishi iMiEV, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (part gasoline

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    The Motor Of The Automobile

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    incredible machine many everyday events could not be possible. The electric car was born and built in the late 1800’s by William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa. Morrison was always considered a “wiz kid” of the battery and was always interested in the chemistry of a storage battery and behind how it worked as a young man. The electric car from its birth to present day has evolved greatly. At the electric cars birth, the electric automobile started out having

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