Sustainable Design - Tesla Electric Cars

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Focus area 1:................................................................................................................................3
a) Sustainable Design and Ecology.........................................................................................3
b) Positive Impact on Environment.........................................................................................4
c) Harmful Impact on Environment........................................................................................5
Focus area 2:................................................................................................................................6
a) Sustainability and Economic Development.........................................................................6
b) Impact of Tesla Electrical Cars on Economy......................................................................7
Focus area 3:................................................................................................................................8
a) Sustainable Design and Culture...........................................................................................8
Conclusion and Recommendation.................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Sustainable designs are meant to provide comfort to the customers along with implying
zero damage to the environment. It utilizes non-renewable energy with least resources, reducing
the amount of waste materials to build a productive environment. As the climate of our earth is
continuously changing, it is becoming more important that the sustainable designs are
implemented to protect our planet from more destruction (Ellingsen, Singh and Strømman 2016).
Sustainable designs produce the products that help in the preservation and protection of water.
They use the products which are eco friendly and increase the quality of maintenance and
operation processes (Voigt, Buliga and Michl 2017). The exemplar of this research is the electric
cars produced by the organization Tesla Motors.
Figure 1: Tesla Model S Electric Car
(Source: Tesla.com 2018)
Tesla Motors have been manufacturing electric cars since a long time and they are made
out of a lot of research and evaluations. Taking the comfort of the customers as well as the
environmental quotient with regards to the cost/benefit analysis for the organization into

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consideration, these cars have been developed by sustainable designs. Tesla Motors have earned
quite a name in the industry with these electric cars. Therefore, this report would analyse these
products as follows. The report would include the sustainable design and ecology that have been
implemented while manufacturing the electric cars and the positive impact it bears over the
environment. The report would further include the impact that the sustainable design of the cars
bear on the environment as well as on the economy and the impact of these designs in the future.
Thus, this would help in the understanding of the future of electric cars and their sustainable
designs in the market. The report would further carry on with the impact of the sustainable
design for Tesla Electric Cars on the environment.
Focus area 1:
a) Sustainable Design and Ecology
In designing process, the environment or ecology development is considered as the main
factor. It has been found that about 75 percent of oil is consumed by transportation in the United
States (Mehar et al. 2015). Furthermore, it has been implied that by 2050, there would be a
possibility of about 2 billion cars to ply on the streets, compared to the mere 800 millions in
2005 (Arora, Shen and Kapoor 2016). Therefore, it has to be kept in mind that the natural
balance of environment is being highly affected by human interventions and deteriorating
gradually. Any organization must consider the fact about the affects of their products on the
environment, especially the car manufacturers as the emissions from cars cause the most
interventions. In addition, the primary focus of the manufacturers should be on the products that
are utilized while manufacturing a car since they are not put forward after the end product has
been delivered. Instead, it has been found that almost 80 percent of materials that are used while