Liam Denning, Columnist

GM's Car Revs Quietly in the Shadow of Tesla's Truck

There is still value in taking measured strides rather than many moonshots.

November 17, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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She didn't unveil a nuke-proof truck. Nor did anyone call on her to become emperor. Yet I think Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Co., actually had a good week, if slightly less flashy than that of her counterpart at Tesla Inc., Elon Musk.

A day before Musk's Thursday night electric-truck-and-nesting-sports-car reveal in an aircraft hangar in Los Angeles, Barra appeared in the slightly more mundane setting of a conference hosted by Barclays in Manhattan.