Automotive Industry Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Automotive industry plays a key role in the development and engineering in general and transport engineering in particular. Automotive industry world is capacious and very important sector of the world economy and international business, it's not only the cars, but also a variety of goods on car servicing, as well as, to a large extent, the market for the production and sale of spare parts. Car Market has a number of related markets and industries from the most closely adjacent (market parts and blocks of cars and the oil industry) to the less obvious (roads, production of accessories for cars, etc.).
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The automotive industry is one of the industries that has been characterized by intense rivalry. Companies invest a lot of resources to come up with innovative solutions that give them an edge over their rivals. Customer satisfaction is the main target for every company since evidence suggest that increased customer satisfaction contributes to enhanced customer loyalty. One of the areas of focus has been quality control. Quality control in the automotive industry has been improving over time. Besides increasing customer satisfaction, quality controls have been employed in the automotive industry to achieve other goals such as cutting costs, meeting ...

The automobile industry is an evolution that dates back to 1891 when there was an invention of the first application of an electric motor coupled with a battery to propel a vehicle. The development of the electric motor and the battery to propel a vehicle in market the pioneer and significant step in the steam and locomotive industry between 1893 and 1894. Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot remains to be the father of full scale mechanical vehicle since 1769. Beecroft (2009) argues that from the onset, there have been significant changes and development within the automotive industry. Indeed, the industry has advanced from ancient to ...

Vehicles and Auto Parts Exportation to Canada

Vehicles and Auto Parts Exportation to Canada

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The products to be exported are vehicles and auto parts. They are being exported to Canada. A large percentage of imports in Canada come from the automotive imports originating from the United States. Canada spends an estimated 19 billion dollars on importing automotive from the United States (Transport Canada, 2016). Also, three quarters of the cars being used in Canada are imported from the United States. It means that Canada has a large market for the automotives. A larger percentage of the companies in the automotive industry comprise of assembling firms. The ...

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The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a technology whereby intelligent agents are studied and created (Poole and Mackworth 9). In this case an intelligent agent is a structure that senses its surroundings and acts in such a manner as to maximise its chances of success. The origin of AI was in 1956 where John McCarthy described it as a science of creating thinking machines (intelligent machines). The technology comprises of eight different areas that are currently researched on and are wide in their own rights. The fields are: expert systems; decision support and planning; speech recognition; natural language processing; computer aided instruction; ...

Figure 1 Generated and Projected Revenue from global automobile industry 6
Figure 2 Total Revenue and Net Profit after Tax of Toyota in Australia during 2008-2013 7
Figure 3 Total Revenue and Net Profit after Tax of Mitsubishi in Australia during 2009-2014 9
Figure 4 Total Revenue and Net Profit after Tax of Hyundai in Australia during 2008-2013 10

International Business Management: Global Operation of Toyota, Mitsubishi and Hyundai

Forewords
International business management refers to the strategies and approaches adopted to further the cause of business development on a global basis. Strategies may encompass the corporate strategy, organizational design, and supply chain structure of the industry. ...

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Microeconomics can be defined as the analysis of the decisions made by individuals and groups, the factors that affect those decisions, and how those decisions affect others (Moffatt, n.pag.). Unlike macroeconomics that deals with aggregate level activities, microeconomic deals with individual, household and firm level economic activities. It helps in understanding the dynamics of an industry and microeconomic impact of industries. The industry that has been chosen for this study is automotive industry for two reasons. First, automobile industry significantly contributes to global economy. Second, the industry is dynamic and undergoing a lot of changes in the recent past.
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THE STORY OF DETROIT: THE LARGEST BANKRUPTED CITY IN THE U.S.

STORY OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF DETROIT
Detroit has been a city where the American Car Industry has settled for a long time. Detroit could be able to manage to create a high tech industry and develop new technologies. A successful investment city has fallen down because of some political, economical and social reasons. Political reasons are due to the mismanagement of the city finance and investments. The global financial crisis has influenced the Detroit Economy negatively and the production and the income in the city have decreased and this bad ...

WHY GENERAL MOTORS SHOULD EXPAND ITS AUTOMOBILE OPERATIONS IN MEXICO

BACKGROUND
Positive prospect for Mexico calls for greater attention. The recovery from the hard hit of 2009 global financial crises that affected the performance of the industrial sector of the economy has increased greater business prospects. This call for attention is in addition to the GM expansion plan $420 million of investments in the states of Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi. The expansion suggestion is based on various factors highlighted in the underlying suggestion.

ASSESSMENT SCOPE

The proposed suggestion has been based on conducting assessment from the following perspectives:
- GM’s proposed suggestion is based on the assessment ...

A report on new car industry in B.C. Canada

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The automotive industry in British Columbia is majorly a service industry revolving around sales, marketing, repair and dumping of vehicles. Officially, the sector accounts for 1.9% of gross GDP (by maintaining a vehicle fleet to sustain a flow of goods and services through the province) and employs 2.3% or 45,000 people combined for both technical and corporate positions. With businesses spread across the province, the sector is primarily run by small businesses with less than 10 employees (Greg. Keenan, 2014).
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The automotive industry is referred as one of the prominent industries in the 21st century. This is because business and personal movements and activities both in developed and developing countries today depend heavily on the use of automobiles. The automotive industry is termed as the largest industry in the world in terms of capital, volume, annual turnover and employees (Hoque et al., 2013). Toyota and Hyundai are the two leading automobile companies in the world. Le (2014) revealed that Toyota has managed to rebuild its image after its crises of 2008 that was a great fall. Furthermore, the report stated ...

This paper seeks to provide a critical comparative analysis of two companies based in two countries. The companies to be analyzed are Toyota Motor Corporation headquartered in Japan and Apple, Inc headquartered in the United States. Both corporations have been through similar paths of expansion as well as faced similar challenges in their marketing environment. Often, marketing-orientated firms tend to look outwards of the environments in which they operate. This is seen as a way to maximize their opportunities as well as take advantage of emerging target market opportunities, thereby minimizing potential threats that may hinder their progress. Marketing environments do ...

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Tesla Motors, Inc. is one of the players in the American auto industry, which was established in the year 2003 by a group of bright, smart and innovative engineers of the Silicon Valley. These engineers demonstrated that vehicles using electricity could be remarkable substitute for cars that run on petrol or diesel. Tesla does not limit itself to designing, production and marketing of electric cars, but it also offers extremely sophisticated components of electric vehicle powertrain to other players including other automotive giants like Daimler and Toyota. Tesla ...

America’s Car-Mart Inc is a public company that deals with used cars; the firm targets customers who have limited or poor credit situation. It offers financing to its customers, a factor that has made it successful over time. The company has over seventy used-car dealerships. The company allows a potential client to pay about 17% of the automobile’s cost as a down payment. The payment schedule is flexible as the customer can make several payments in a month’s time; the average cost of the firm’s automobiles is $6200. Customer satisfaction is the priority of Car-Mart Inc; the employees are fast ...

Research Paper Outline

Thesis Statement: This paper tries to find out some general reasons of traffic crashes and also discusses several studies, previously done on this subject in order to understand traffic crashes and why such accidents take place. The paper will elaborate rules and laws formed by government to control road accidents and their impact.
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- Statement of the problem: Traffic crashes claim more human lives than terrorism across the world and also cause damages of more than 400 US billion dollars in US alone. Several steps are taken to minimize the incidents of traffic crash but ...

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A hybrid car is a new innovation in the automotive industry which refers to a vehicle that combines a conventional fuel engine system with a rechargeable energy storage system to move the vehicle (Hantula &Debra, 10) this type of vehicle is developed with a sole aim of attaining a more efficient fuel mileage while causing less environmental damage (Hantula &Debra, 10). Over the past decade, there were hardly any hybrid cars in most societies. The situation has however changed in present day where shopping for these kind of vehicles entail much more than just making a choice of their colors. This indicates an increase in awareness ...

Arguably, Toyota Company is the top automotive industry in the world. The Toyota motor corporation was built-in in the year 1937.It has many strengths both external and internal that have made it be the leader in the automotive industry. Toyota Corporation has three important brands; these include Lexus, Toyota and scion. Having many brands has made the company prosper worldwide. It lets the company reach different sectors in the world in a good choice of vehicles to ever rising customers demand (Arkadi 3). Additionally, Toyota has been the leading in total quality management. Toyota external environment refers to key forces ...

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This paper focuses on Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), driverless, and autonomous trucks and cars—collectively referred to as “driverless and autonomous vehicles” in this paper. The transportation industry is one of the most important sectors in the world economy. It ensures that goods and services can freely flow within unrestricted (i.e. trade-able) areas. This is allowed through the fast and efficient (as much as possible) of commodities and people. The premise is that the faster and more efficient goods and people can be moved from one point to another, the more booming the transportation industry will be.
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Founded in 2003 by Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard, and Elon Musk, Tesla Motors Inc. is an automotive firm that develops Electric Vehicles (EVs). According to Holmberg (2008), as part of its global strategy for growth, Tesla sought three strategic alliances with other auto manufacturers namely: Supplier, Research and development (R&D), and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) alliances. The alliance with Lotus, a United Kingdom company would guarantee the supply of unique chassis for the EV (Cheong, Song and Hu 1-10). Panasonic Company from Japan supplied battery cells whereas Borg Warner in the United States supplied single-speed gearbox.
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Physics is a branch of science concerned with different aspects of the physical world such as energy and matter. Physics encompasses wide scientific subjects such as electricity, heat, magnetism, sound, mechanics, light, and radiation among others. Modern technologies, such as digital devices and nano technologies are based on simple physics concepts. As a result, all engineering disciplines require a profound physics background. In the future, I plan to pursue a career in mechanical engineering in the automotive industry. This is a paper on the importance of physics in mechanical engineering.
As a mechanical engineer, one is required to clearly understand a wide range of topics ...

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The automobile industry in the US is one of the largest in the world. The history of the automobile industry dates back to the 1890’s. Since its start it has undergone massive evolution to become the largest in the world. This is attributed to the large size of market available domestically. It is also successful due to the use of mass production. Until 1980, the U.S. was the largest producer of automobiles. It was dethroned by Japan in 1980. This was followed by the subsequent overtaking by the Chinese automobile industry in 2008 though this is greatly attributed ...

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Fuelled by the protests that marred the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the 1979 Energy Crisis was caused a decline in oil production in Iran. The attack Iran by Iraq under the leadership of Saddam Hussein worsened the situation. Attack of Iran by Iraq almost brought to a halt oil production in Iran. The attack also causes a severe reduction in oil supply by Iraq. The 1979 Energy Crisis had a colossal impact on both the oil producing and oil consuming states. Nonetheless, the oil-consuming states such as the United States were more affected. The reaction of the populations affected by the crisis were characterized ...

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American Society has its own set of challenges since the initial days. Historically, what plagued the society was a challenge of race. There were clear challenges that the American society faced that were directly or indirectly attributed to race. The issues of unwed mothers, single parents and lower education were seen to be those affecting and impacting the African-Americans and the Asian-Americans. Over the last decade or so, thanks to the initiatives to even out racial differences – race seems to have taken a back seat and it is the class that seems to have become the new differentiator. Unlike the European ...

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Dear Mr. Mark Fields,
I have been recently studied your company’s corporate social responsibility program focused on environmental sustainability practices, with the purpose on reducing the impact of the automotive use on the water, land, air, humans’ lives, fauna and flora. I am happy to see that Ford is an ambassador of the environmental sustainability, already approaching green technologies and scientific efforts for reducing the greenhouse emissions and other forms of pollution that affect the environment.
As a concerned citizen, an informed environmentalist ...

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American Society has its own set of challenges since the initial days. Historically, what plagued the society was a challenge of race. There were clear challenges that the American society faced that were directly or indirectly attributed to race. The issues of unwed mothers, single parents and lower education were seen to be those affecting and impacting the African-Americans and the Asian-Americans. Over the last decade or so, thanks to the initiatives to even out racial differences – race seems to have taken a back seat and it is the class that seems to ...

Throughout history, man has created several inventions of different shapes and sizes to cater to specific activities in any given moment. Some inventions were directed to people, animals and plants, others were meant for research while a few were made to inflict damage. While inventions were done left and right each year, only a select few have managed to remain in constant development today. One of these continually improved sectors is the field of transportation as people needed means to transport goods and produce and at the same time, transport people to various locations in the country or the world. Inventors ...

Industry Analysis of luxury car Industry

This memo provides an overview of the Luxury Car industry analysis and discusses the attractiveness of the industry in terms of competition and sustained profitability. The memo provides a background of the industry and the uses the Porter’s five-tool to analyze the industry’s attractiveness (Porter 81). The selected industry is the automotive industry and focuses on global operations of BMW AG. The vast scope of focus is vital because the top 3 competitors in the automotive operations have extensive global presence.
The automotive industry has many firms, but I will focus on three key competitors, which are ...