Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ch. 3 - Ethics & Social Responsibility

According to Tesla Motors Inc, "if you really want zero emissions, electric vehicles can be powered from a hundred percent renewable energy. Several Tesla Motors customers have already installed panels through our preferred solar installation partnerSolar City." This helps on reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
Tesla Motors really does has a great corporate socially responsible image. Tesla has several pages on their website with information regarding ethical issues and consumer concerns about their products and company:

  • Tesla Motors and Environmental Benifits (has useful information going in detail on how the benefits of driving an electric car)
  • Tesla Motors Inc FAQs: An electric car is far more efficient than a gasoline car, so the amount of pollution generated by producing the electricity to drive an EV a given distance is much less than the pollution from the gasoline to drive an internal combustion car the same distance. Whereas a combustion engine car – even those powered by hydrogen, ethanol, and biodiesel – can make use of around 20 percent of the energy that it consumes, a battery electric car like the Tesla Roadster is able to put more than 80 percent of the energy it consumes to use in moving the car down the road.

Keeping an Eye on Tomorrow, Today

"It probably comes as no surprise that a forward-thinking company like Tesla Motors thinks a lot about the future. We do.  

"That's why the tires and the battery of every Tesla Motors vehicle are recyclable. Reuse is such a key part of our philosophy that we've already arranged to have our car batteries safely recycled — even before we've sold our first car. The cost of recycling is built into the purchase price of the car, so there‘s never a reason “why not” to recycle."

2 comments:

  1. very useful blog,The most obvious advantage of electric Car Battery is that they don't produce the pollution
    associated with internal combustion engines.

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  2. Took me time to read all the comments, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be Very helpful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It’s always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! Social distancing

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