Tesla's Impact On The Car Industry

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Tesla-Led Electric cars are expected to possibly have a huge impact on the car industry over the next few decades. Analysts have made the point that electric vehicles could cause a massive decline in vehicle sales overall. Most auto manufacturers, including: Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, and General Motors, are going into full focus in making electric vehicles, knowing that they have Tesla as their competition. Frank Lindenburg was saying that they will most likely profit less when they first start selling the electric cars, but Daimler, Mercedes Benz owner, is going to help. He is planning to cut billions in spending to help decrease the lower electric car profits. The electric cars have several necessary circumstances that will make the electric …show more content…

Lastly, the cost of the batteries need to decrease. Tesla, Daimler and more electric car brands are building big battery manufacturing plants to bring down the battery costs and help give them greater amounts of supplies. Daimler feels that by the year of 2025, electric car companies will be equal in cost to piston-engine cars. Once they are equal, it will be more cheap to own an electric car when talking about the cost per mile. The car will also have a lower amount of mechanical moving parts, which means that not as many problems will occur in electric cars as in internal combustion cars. Tesla has been working on making its first market car, called Model 3. Tesla is also about to reveal a semitrailer truck around October 26, 2017. Edison Research has come up with another plus to owning an electric car. They have came to the conclusion that it is half the cost of private transportation because they last a lot longer than regular vehicles that have internal combustion engines. Windsor stated, “We continue to think that BMW and Tesla have the best chances of survival but we think even BMW might struggle to survive a decline in demand of this scale.” This shows that Tesla currently probably has the best chance of survival in the electric car …show more content…

Electric cars could eventually cause internal combustion cars to stop being used. They could also cause car brands that don't sell electric cars to go completely out of business or have a drastic decrease in business. It would have a huge impact on the world to only have electric cars. We wouldn't have gas tanks; there wouldn't be as bad of pollution; there would be battery charging stations, which we have never even seen before! It would be a huge milestone for the world and it would truly be considered revolutionary. This article relates to another article I found called, “Tesla Second-Quarter Results Beat as Model 3 Production Ramps.” This article discusses how Tesla is rapidly increasing in sales and is making billions of dollars. Tesla ended its first quarter with 4 billion dollars and its second with over 3 billion. This article shows how Tesla is continuing to increase in sales and the article also helps support the idea from the first article that electric cars are on their way to becoming

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