Tesla is pushing into India. But Nitin Gadkari, the Indian Minister for Road Transport and Highways, recently dealt a severe blow to the electric car pioneer’s hopes.
• Tesla sets its sights on India
• Negotiations about Tesla factory in India
• Indian minister opposes self-driving vehicles
According to a UN report from April 2023, India is now the most populous country in the world. Given this huge market, it is no wonder that Tesla is also very interested in entering the market. Although Tesla CEO had Elon Musk Already announced in 2017 that it wanted to sell Tesla vehicles in India from the summer of that year, but given the high tariffs that the country levies on electric cars, no cars have been imported directly into India to date.
In view of this tariff obstacle, Tesla is now planning to build a factory in India. In June 2023, Musk said at a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: “I am confident that Tesla will be present in India, as soon as possible.” Because, in his opinion, the country is “more promising than any other major one in the world.”
Indian government has demands on Tesla
Tesla has already spoken to the Indian government about such plans and has stated in this context that the car manufacturer would like the delivery of relevant parts for production from its Chinese partners. But this was met with resistance from the Indian government, which instead demanded that Chinese suppliers find and work with local Indian joint venture partners.
At the Zero Mile Samvad hosted by IIM Nagpur, Nitin Gadkari, India’s Road Transport and Highways Minister, reiterated this stance: Speaking to Business Today TV, Gadkari said: “We will allow Tesla to come to India, but “They cannot produce in China and sell in India. That is an impossibility.”
No driverless cars wanted in India
In addition, the minister gave Tesla another setback: “I will never allow driverless cars to come to India because that will take away many drivers’ jobs and I will not allow that,” he told the editor-in-chief of “Business Today TV “, Siddharth Zarabi. It is therefore desirable that the US company invests in the subcontinent, but Gadkari firmly rejects driverless vehicles, although Tesla is investing enormously in its “Full Self Driving” assistant – also known as “Autopilot” – and in autonomous driving sees the future.
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