Journal Assignment 3

What is the coolest thing in 21th century? Apple? Google Glass? Tesla? Different people have different opinion, but in this article, I want to introduce the pioneer of our time, Tesla. Tesla, found in 2003, is one of the most famous car brand on earth now. As we all know that Tesla is powered by electricity and occupied by the advance technology that make it looks like a science fiction vehicle. However, unlike its successful progress in U.S, it have a harsh time in the biggest market in the world-China. Why? We can see something from the newspaper.

 Firstly, practicability. You must don’t want to buy a useless but expensive thing and keep it in your house, but this is an embarrassed situation that Tesla are facing right now. If your car is a gasoline car, you can find gas station anywhere in your town, but if your car is an electricity car, you won’t be so lucky, especially in China. Because Tesla is a pure electricity car, you can only charge your car in your garage. This is a huge limitation although the car can drive 275 miles with one battery, people still think it’s no as convenient as gasoline cars.

 Secondly, the price is a problem. In China, the lowest level of Tesla car sells about 100,000$, and it is not a tiny number. What kind of vehicle can we buy in China with 100,000$? BMW 5class, Mercedes-Benz C class, and these are old brand that with a very good reputation in China, so why should those affordable people choose Tesla?

 The last and the most important that the media won’t tell us, who is the enemy of Tesla? Tesla is the name of a great scientist-Nikola Tesla, who was the enemy of Thomas Edison. Edison prevented the inventions of Tesla because these will make him lose a lot of profits. Like today, the old gasoline cars like Toyota, BMW,  ...... will spend no effort to prevent the new energy car rises. So does the energy company like Exxon Mobil, BP, because they need the customers who use gasoline cars. And unfortunately, these big companies have the ability to control the government, which is a huge gap that separate the idea and reality.

 However, although there are many problem in new energy car, we should still keep our hope that they will dominate the market in some day because the environment can not suffer anymore. And we should believe the world will change, maybe it will take a long period but at least Nikola Tesla is remembered by us right now.