Tesla (TSLA) Scaring the Big Boys in Detroit (GM)

July 18, 2013 7:53 AM EDT
GM (NYSE: GM) CEO Dan Akerson is busy studying up-start electric vehicle maker Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA), as he views the company as a potential disruptive force to the automotive industry, according to reports from Bloomberg Thursday.

Akerson has assigned a small team to study Tesla and how it might threaten GM, Steve Girsky, GM vice chairman, said last week during an interview at Bloomberg headquarters in New York.

"He thinks Tesla could be a big disrupter if we're not careful," Girsky said. "History is littered with big companies that ignored innovation that was coming their way because you didn’t know where you could be disrupted."

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