... thus reducing the aforementioned adverse effects. To bring this initiative to life FERN is working on an indigenously manufactured electric car. This will show that electric cars can be mass produced and overtime, can replace the conventional cars of today. Furthermore, it is ... amongst the masses. The team aims to acquaint students with the modern designing techniques, state-of-the-art technology involved in manufacturing an electric car and the challenges associated with it. FERN is diligently working to inspire the younger generation to come forth in the fields of engineering and ......

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... such modifications that can be made. Seatbelts are something that everyone is all too familiar with, and is probably the most important safety device in minimizing injuries to passengers in car accidents. By law, all cars must be fitted with seatbelts. Inertia reel seatbelts are found in the majority of cars, which allow for greater comfort and freedom of movement of ... by restraining the user in the event of a collision where inertia might mean the user coming into contact with the dashboard, steering wheel, windscreen or other internal objects when the car suddenly comes to a halt in...

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... often these transport means are complementary in terms of delivering a final tourist product. For instance the passenger aircraft is often combined with the rental car in the 21st century in terms of foreign tourist travel for the UK tourist. If the tourist destination is a seaside resort then the cruising ... Today, rail is not the dominant means of transport to a UK seaside resort such as Blackpool, here it has been over taken by the motor car. Since the last war there has been a shift from rail to road transport. The Central station closed in 1964 allowing space for tourist development...

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... more expensive the auto industry is making their engines perform better than the year before not only with adding horsepower but also by making the car go further with increased fuel economy. The automobile industry has added more features that we have never seen before so consumers are more intrigued to ... go out and buy that specific car. Second, when the automobile industry makes a commercial they use specific drivers. It may be a gorgeous woman or a handsome man. The automobile industry uses ... horsepower they find what you want in that specific vehicle and make it available for y...

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... (2). As I reflect on this case, the contract view theory, and the inappropriate methods used by Lee Iacocca to get his small compact American made car out into the market first, I can't help but wonder what happened to contractual view they should have held with the consumer's to provide them with ... out an automobile that was substandard. But I also think that as a consumer, there are different questions that should have been asked when purchasing a car. Are these questions enough to put any fault on the consumer? Not in my eyes, but I do feel the consumer should ask certain questions ...

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... conventional tires. The result is that they cause about half the drag of regular tires. Use lightweight materials - Reducing the overall weight of a car is one easy way to increase the mileage.(Electric Cars) A lighter vehicle uses less energy each time you accelerate or drive up a hill. ... produces the current required to power the electric wheel motors. The lead-acid batteries provide power for acceleration and capture regenerative braking energy. This car represents a great step forward in hybrid-fuel technology, but these technological advances don't come cheap. One drawback to the...

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... a staple in American culture. Beginning with the first advertisement for the Winton Motor Carriage in Scientific American: "Dispense with a horse and save the expense, care and anxiety of keeping it," car advertisements have been used to attract different populations of consumers. Looking back, many members in upper class society switched from the laborious horse drawn carriage, to a more sophisticated alternative around ... newspaper The Plain Dealer. It wasn't until 10 years later that advertisements for the more affordable Model-T began to surface that appealed to the middle class. T...

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... racing team and in return can use their association with the team for commercial purposes. The most obvious examples of this relationship are company logos, which advertise the products of a car's sponsors and are commonly seen on the outside of vehicles during races, but companies also use racing as part of public relations, marketing, entertainment, and employee relations programs. ... and for sports cars. These competitions receive less attention in the United States, where the most important race series are those for Indy cars and for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (N...

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... their roots stem from electric vehicles which were first developed back in 1835 by Professor Stratingh in Groningen, Netherlands. The first real hybrid car was produced in 1902 by Woods Phaeton. However, in 1915, the hybrid cars began losing popularity due to the development of traditional gasoline ... performance over traditional gasoline powered cars. There are two types of hybrid cars which both have their assets and drawbacks. The first type of hybrid car, known as a parallel hybrid, has a fuel tank, which supplies gasoline to the engine. It also contains a set of batteries that suppl...

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... of drivers, fans and even of Enzo Ferrari himself. Ferrari's curse began in 1955 when ex-Ferrari champion Alberto Ascari died while driving his sports car in Monza. Ascari signed on with Lancia a year earlier but he was still not safe from Ferrari's misfortune because, oddly enough, he was killed ... muscular dystrophy, this was something that Enzo would never recover from. As a tribute to Dino, Enzo named a number of road cars and a Grand Prix car after his son, but the team's pain was far from over. Shortly after the death of Dino two top Italian drivers, Eugenio Castellotti and Luigi ...

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... gain even better acceleration than using gasoline. The use of a smaller engine by hybrid cars saves space and significantly reduces the weight of the car allowing for better mileage while driving. While gasoline powered cars use twice the power and have twice the engine size of hybrid cars. People ... who drive gasoline powered cars can only gain good mileage from there cars by the manner which they drive their car. This is due to air drag and other technical issues that deal with cars but the thing is that hybrid cars already have this advantage due ... to the use of both batteries and...

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... good exercise. Another form of reducing air pollution would be to shop or bank on the internet because this would eliminate the use of a car but the computer would still produce small quantities of pollution into the air. The pollution produced by the computer is on a much smaller scale ... than the pollution caused by the fumes of a car. On the other hand there are some solutions that I will not partake in because they are simply not realistic for me in my life. Some of ... include: 1) not use products that produce CFC's because they break apart covalent bonds in ozone therefore formin...

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... makes further reference to the profile of the magazines readership in terms of class and age representation. "Sexiest University in Britain" and other articles such as "FHM kills a super car" appear to represent a readership of working class and middle class. The university student is also regarded as a profiled reader, as reference to student stereotypes feature regularly throughout the ... a text; the medium of communication, the social relationships of the participants, and the purpose for which the language is being employed (Montgomery, M, 2000, P68). The analysis of a car review fe...

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... old technology was cheaply made and imperfect until today where hybrids are more dependable, and more advanced Honda has shown us that the hybrid car has become reliable. According to a release the two-motor hybrid systems generate fuel efficiency without compromising the performance of the cars. Honda ... important flexibility of driving on hybrid, gasoline, or plug-in battery power as conditions and needs warrant. Their priority is the make the car enjoyable for the driver and passengers and not something boring and uninteresting to drive. This is shown in one of their hybrid cars, the ...

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... current vehicles. Including installation, an after-market receiver is expected to retail for $400 to $500 - about double the cost of a conventional AM/FM system. While focusing on the car market, XM should also find secondary markets where they can also exploit their technology. With 100 million households in the U.S, XM should put emphasis on marketing their product to home ... and paid GM a % of subscription revenue earned from GM cars with pre-installed XM radios. Sony • Created a cradle-mounted version of XM radio that easily transferred from car to car or car to home. • XM issue...

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... of a good or service purchased on the market and it is therefore difficult to isolate the variable of interest, e.g. the safety component of a car. The method used to estimate preferences and derive implicit values by market behavior is called The Hedonic Pricing Method (HP) and was developed by ... to derive risk values, will be the Swedish automobile market. The VOSL is then given by the relationship between the marginal price change of the car for an additional "unit of safety" and the marginal change of the risk of a fatal accident, and is an estimate of the value individuals ... wh...

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... Visteon Corporation. Ford Credit was established in 1959 and became the worlds largest automotive financing company. They currently operate in 36 countries with 313 locations worldwide. Hertz, the world's largest car, truck, and equipment rental and leasing company, was established in 1918. They currently operate in 140 countries with 6500 locations worldwide. Lastly, Visteon Corporation was established in 1997, with ... the amount of tailpipe emissions of hydrocarbon, oxides of nitrogen, and carbon monoxide released from cars. An example of a Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) is the new Ford...

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... expenditure, limited supply of lithium-ion battery cells, supplier bottlenecks, high research and development costs, and the company's low expertise of mass production. Tesla is a fairly new car manufacturer with little expertise in mass producing cars compared to established automotive companies such as Toyota, Volkswagen, and GM. Tesla does not currently have the capital to set up ... Suppliers The bargaining of suppliers for different types of alternative fuel vehicles are relatively moderate. There are many suppliers globally for raw materials, thus these suppliers do not control the...

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... work need to use cars cover the ever increasing distances between home and work. However, when choosing a car, or automobile, there are a lot of factors to take into consideration. For example, a good car needs to have good advertisement campaigns that make other cars seem inferior to them without losing their style or ... to emotion, individuality and somewhat to logic. The words "Thrill Ride" on the top of the page and the position of the car make readers think of cruising down a highway at full speed just for the fun and feel of it. The advertisement's message is that driving the ... ...

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... ,000 from her aunt in Texas, who has passed. She has no indication on how to devote the money but is contemplating in buying a used car, or moving into her own apartment near campus, maybe even vacation to Hawaii since she has fantasized about the trip, and her last option is saving ... support to assist her in whatever dilemma she's in. She's able to explore her opportunities by being able to help her parents, maybe get a used car for herself instead of taking public transportation, or rent a nice apartment near campus, and vacation in the future other than just sticking to one alternati...

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... individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the car was detained; and whether a ticket was issued, the car searched, or any illegal goods or weapons were found when the traffic stop was made. Racial profiling is the police ... Maryland state trooper pulled the families rented Cadillac over for speeding. When the trooper asked to search the car and its contents, Wilkins refused. But the trooper set loose a drug-sniffing dog to comb the car's exterior, including the windshield, the hubcaps, and the taillights whil...

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... respects, as a resource of energy, the battery was no match for the high-energy content, ease of handling, cheap and abundant supplies of petroleum motor fuel. Today, after the electric car was nearly forgotten, it might actually surpass all other means of transportation. As accessible petroleum deposits decline, automobile populations soar, cities are becoming polluted with combustion by-products, the internal ... 's societies, individual automobile ownership seems to be the system of choice. So, it becomes necessary for automobiles to become more environmentally friendly and more fuel-...

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... Outlook 2000). It manufactures passenger cars, trucks, commercial cars and buses. It also contains other kinds of business that provides services to automobiles, such as maintaining and repairing, car dealer, car shipment, etc. The auto industry is among the biggest industry in the economy world. Global sales of automobiles averaged 50 million units annually in the 1990s, and by the year ... in payroll compensation in U.S.A, according to a 2001 report on the "Contribution of the Automotive Industry to the U.S. Economy" prepared by the University of Michigan and the Center for Automotive ...

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... the Bartlett & Ghoshal model) will be compared. If there is a discrepancy then the client should consider other factors as well. Competitor Analysis: Toyota Toyota operates what is known as a "world-car" strategy (Reingold, 1999). It is based upon transnationally-integrated production between overseas affiliates of the parent company. Component manufacture is located in the most favourable locations on a global scale. These ... introduce a range of pickup trucks but this was originally overruled by headquarters. The pickup was only authorised after US management invited Japanese executi...

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... in 2003 coming from its 8 million customers and 500,000 automobile sales. The popularity of internet based automobile companies was an inevitable creation. With countless individuals having horror stories about car buying experiences, consumers needed a change and the internet was it. Consumers often complained about the price haggling, the rude salesmen, the high price of automobiles, the lack of available information ... accessible location. These sites also where able to provide consumers with low prices without the haggle, limit dealer/salesmen interaction to a minimum and reduce th...

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