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Aug 5, 2015

CARS ELECTRIFICATION * USA: Tesla executive presses GM, said stop building compliance cars

* California - Tesla Executive presses auto makers on electrification

-- Tesla Motors Inc. came to a conference here with a tough message for other auto makers: stop building compliance cars... An executive at the Silicon Valley electric-car maker on Tuesday bemoaned the inability of General Motors Co. and other manufacturers to have better success selling their own battery-powered vehicles... Instead, most other auto makers are producing electric cars to meet minimum regulatory standards while continuing to build and sell less-efficient gas-engine vehicles in droves, said Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president of business development... Mr. O’Connell said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal the problem for other companies is a lack of “compelling product” in showrooms. Other electric cars tend to be more utilitarian with uninspiring designs and a focus on low cost, he said... 
(Photo from Bloomberg - A Tesla Motors Inc. Model S P85D vehicle sits plugged in at a charging station near a Texaco Inc. gas station in Nephi, Utah, on April 7)  --  Traverse City, MICH, USA - THE WSJ, by MIKE SPECTOR - Aug. 4, 2015

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