Oil depletion and use of vehicles: what are the alternative energies?
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
In our modern society, oil is omnipresent in our habits and plays a significant role. It has several stakes in economical, political and strategic fields. Indeed oil is considered as the best energy source because it is easily extracted, stocked and transformed. Moreover, its energy yield is very...
The Impact of Environmental Issues on Toyota's Strategy
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
This thesis will seek to understand the controversial relationship between environmental factors and Toyota. Indeed, motor vehicle exhaust-emissions notably that of carbon monoxide pollution, is caused directly by the automobile industry. However, these negative impacts changed the position of...
Promoting, Sponsorship, Use of Celebrities and Social Advertisements
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
A green car or an environmentally friendly car refers to a car that consumes less fuel or uses energy that is friendly to the environment (Becker, 2010). Hybrid cars, such as Toyota Prius use both gasoline and electronic sources of energy, and they are, therefore, able...
Marketing a product and determining the market strategy
Thesis - 2 pages - Services marketing
As results of my research on business and society I will identify and describe the four functional market strategies used to entice consumer spending on in-car electronic devices and an adapters. This article clarifies how this adapter includes a main body and components capable of...
Business Plan: Renault
Business plan - 13 pages - Services marketing
Renault was founded in the early 20th century, and over the years, has a huge historical legacy. From its beginning, through the two World Wars to the present day, the brand has cemented itself in French History. Presently, Renault is involved in a partnership with Samsung and Nissan Motors. It...
Group Renault in the Russian Market
Case study - 42 pages - Economy general
Solid and ambitious, the Renault Commitment 2009 plan, revealed by Carlos Ghosn on February 2006, mobilizes the entire company around three strong key commitments: quality (position New Laguna among the Top 3 models in its segment, in terms of product and service quality), profitability (achieve...
General Motors - Strategic management plan
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The development of the automotive industry is probably the biggest revolution of the twentieth century along with Internet and telecommunications. Motor cars were invented in 1769 but we had to wait until 1890 to hear about the word "automobile". Since then, many car companies were...
The design and development of Michelin
Essay - 1 pages - Services marketing
Michelin has reinvented the wheel with Active Wheel technology. The new wheel features a series of devices which reduces consumption while increasing comfort and handling. The weight of 7 kg and technology is that of the wheel is 32 kg, which is below the recommended maximum weight of 35 kg. The...
Study of an innovation: SMART
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
The innovation that I have chosen to study is the car SMART. First, before explaining the reasons for this choice, I would like to delimit the word innovation. Indeed, what is the difference between invention and innovation? One can say that innovation is the successful exploitation of new...
The French motor industry in the world
Essay - 37 pages - Economy general
Since more than half a century, the motor industry has represented, in most of industrialized countries a floret of the industry. In spite of the expansion of the service sector, the French motor industry occupies a very great place in our country. The manpower mass has decreased (in France this...
Marketing & Innovation Business Case: Ladies Taxi Service, Paris
Case study - 17 pages - Services marketing
Nowadays, women do not feel safe in the streets of Paris. In 2008, 10% to 12% of the people interrogated in Paris claimed to be worried about their security in the day-to-day life . Taxis and public transport are not an exception. Some recent events such as the murder of a young Swedish girl by a...
Strategic analysis of Mercedes Benz
Essay - 28 pages - Accounting
Mercedes-Benz is a German brand of automobiles, buses, coaches and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler company (formerly Daimler-Benz), commonly known as Mercedes. Mercedes-Benz is the world's oldest automobile manufacturer and the origin of the company dates back to the 1880s, when Gottlieb Daimler...
Mobilicar case study
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The American car market accounts for 16, 2% of the world's total car market but has experienced a decline in the total number of sales during year 2009 (Datamonitor, 2009). This means that many Americans have become dependent on public transport or other ways of moving across...
Ford case study: Developing a new strategy
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
Ford Motors Company has been founded in 1903 by Henri T. Ford and 11 associates.Over the years, the company developed and expanded its automotive activities (design, development, manufacture, sale and service of cars and trucks). The Company had the credit in financing a wide variety of...
General Motors: Strategic Management
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
General Motors is a 100 year-old company which has built a big holding that owns many different car manufacturing brands distributed all around the world. During this century, GM has become the biggest car manufacturer in the world, with a turnover of more than a hundred billion...
Battlebot - Minitron
Case study - 18 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The "Minitron" battle bot is made by Group 1, comprising of 7 members from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and material science. Principles of product design, electrical circuits, and report writing were inherent in the group due to this. Minitron weighs in at 2.3 kg, with a...
Website evaluation : Audi
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
Audi is a German car manufacturer and a part of the group Volkswagen AG. The official name of the company is Audi AG, and its registered office is located at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The name Audi is the acronym of Auto Union Deutsche Industrie. This name also comes from Latin audi...
Automotive industry: China
Thesis - 25 pages - Business strategy
In China, the government does not offer premiums to the purchasers of new cars contrary to the US government or to other European governments. Massive infrastructure investments have been realized by the Chinese government to accompany this development. With more than 2 million km of...
Strategy and organization of the Ford group
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
While developing a strategy, a company no longer considers each supplier, customer or competitor as enemies who will undermine its immediate benefits. Automakers around the world now share this vision, which is why they have completely changed the nature of their relationships with their...
Automatic parking systems: PLC and SCADA
Dissertation - 41 pages - Journalism
Automatic parking systems are a contemporary answer to the increasing number of cars and the limited number of free space available for purposes, especially in city areas. Savings in construction volume of up to 50% is characteristic for automatic parking systems based on their compact...
Hybrids incorporated into Jaguar's inventory?
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
These days it is no longer the cost of the vehicle and the insurance that cause people to be weary when purchasing a car. Now there is another variable taken into account, skyrocketing gas prices. In order to ease the pain of affording a car, a new adjusted automobile is gaining a...
Porsche and the marketing analysis
Case study - 30 pages - Services marketing
This document is dedicated to the automaker who was born in 1948 in the village of Gmund in Austria; the builder won all sorts of competitions, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans 16 times; the builder who has created a myth by his range of Cars: Ferdinand Porsche. Today everyone knows the...
Fuel cells
Essay - 7 pages - Physics
What are the limiting factors in the introduction of PEM fuel cells into mobile power generation? What areas of research are being carried out to address these limitations and which of these do you feel will have the biggest impact in enabling the various types of fuel cells systems? Proton...
Study of DC drives
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Physics
In general practice in industrial applications machine tools make use of motors for their feed applications where in, speed of this motors are controlled in conventional methods i.e., Ward-Leonard system, multiple voltage control, rheostatic control method etc. However, these methods are...
Alternate modes of personal travel
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Purdue's campus in West Lafayette is trying to achieve something that at this moment in time seems impossible. They are trying to make it a bus-free campus. However, given how public transportation has became a part of life just as much as breathing and eating it is understood that this is a task...
Market Research: The launch of a hybrid diesel engine by PSA group
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
In 2004, Toyota launched a hybrid car: Prius. The principle of this car is the addition of an electric motor to the traditional petrol engine. The objective is to request the electric motor with starting and low speed and to request the petrol engine at higher speeds....
Organizational development Daimler Chrysler: a failed merger
Case study - 14 pages - Management
When Daimler and Chrysler announced that they would merge, it was seen as the main industrial merger seen since a very long time. This merger was expected to give birth to a new industrial giant which was supposed to become the fifth largest automobile manufacturer worldwide. The merger between...
Leadership, governance and sustainability: case study of GM
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
On July 10 2009, the firm went through Chapter 11 reorganization after the firm had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 8th the same year. The government offered a loan to GM that would be converted into shareholding at the new firm which was formed General Motors Corporation. The sales of GM...
General Motors Company : an analysis
Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy
It is hard to imagine that General Motors, one of the leading car companies, occupying 15% of the automobile market and that in 2003 alone earned $3.8 billion on record revenue of $185.5 billion, was founded in the small town of Flint, Michigan, by an ingenious salesman and labourer,...
Motor vehicle insurance in India
Dissertation - 42 pages - Finance
There has been a sudden rise in the population of motor vehicles and motor accidents in the last few years. Much of these are attributable to increase in the number of vehicles. Every vehicle before being driven on roads has to be compulsorily insured. The motor insurance policy represents a...
