Elon Musk 'hoping' to launch Tesla in India this summer
In July last year, Nitin Gadkari proposed Musk to consider India as their Asia manufacturing hub
The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk is ‘hoping’ to enter the Indian market in the coming months. In response to a Twitter query on Tesla’s plan to launch in India, Musk said that he is “hoping for summer this year”.
In July last year, Union Minister of Road Transport, Highway and Shipping Nitin Gadkari visited Tesla factory in San Francisco, USA and proposed an offer to promote joint venture with the Indian automobile companies in an attempt to introduce pollution free road transport in India, especially commercial and public motor vehicles.
Gadkari proposed Musk to consider India as their Asia manufacturing hub, further offering land near major Indian ports to facilitate export of their vehicles to South and South East Asian countries.
According to a government press release, Musk admitted the need to have a manufacturing hub outside the US and appreciated Indian offer for the same, which they said will certainly be considered at the appropriate time in future.
“They (Tesla) said India will definitely be a market for their next generation low cost sustainable model-3,” the government press release reads.