Tesla Model S: A Fully Plugged In Electric Car

Tesla Model S is a fully plugged in electric vehicle produced by Tesla Motors. It was introduced in June 2012. It scored a perfect 5.0 in NHTSA automobile safety rating. The official range for the Model S Performance model equipped with an 85 kWh battery pack in 265 miles, which is the lead electric vehicle in the market. It became the first electric vehicle to top the monthly new car sales ranking in any country. Model S was also ranked the second bestselling plug-in electric vehicle after Nissan Leaf. Global sales passes 90,000 units by September 2015.

1.1 Company Background

Tesla Motors was established in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, Silicon Valley engineers, as an electric car manufacture, and in 2006 the company launched

Everything, from the purchase of the car to starting it for the first time to sending it in for servicing, had to be designed from the ground up. Tesla had to think of much better performance than the Tesla Roadster which was released in 2009. The range for Roadster is less than 200 miles, so Tesla had to think over this and make a better electric vehicle which would be liked by the consumers. Tesla, much like Apple did bypassed the traditional dealer network in the automobile world, rather than viewing the lack of an established network as a

The electric motor has power where, the power puts out a force that is measured in torque. Torque is the rotational measurement of force. Below is a diagram showing the basic equation of torque. The units of torque are ft-lbs (foot pounds) or Nm (Newtons times meters). When we look at the physics behind an electric motor we need to know what power is. The basic equation for power is: P = Tw

Here, T is torque and w is the rotational velocity. There are two parameters that can help show how the basic motor works. The 1st parameter is the Stall Torque (Ts), which is the minimum torque needed to stop the motor shaft from turning and the 2nd parameter is the No Load Speed (Wn), which is the rotational speed of the motor when there is no torque being applied to it. The equations for these parameters is as follows: T = Ts - (Ts / wn) w w = (Ts - T) (wn /