New Delhi: US-based Tesla has no problem making electric cars in India; But it should not be made in China and imported to India, ” said Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport. The discussion program took place at an international conference in Delhi.
In it Nitin Gadkari spoke: India is a huge market, Elon Musk can make his Tesla electric cars in India if he wants. The structural facilities for this are generous here. There are sellers. There are parts manufacturing companies with all the technologies. Tesla cars can be manufactured and exported here.
But Elon Musk would not accept it if he wanted to make Tesla cars in China and sell them in India. Thus he spoke.Cars imported into India are taxed at 60 – 100 per cent, depending on their value. Tesla has demanded that the federal government impose a fixed tax of Rs 40 lakh on electric cars.
It also demanded the removal of the 10 per cent tax levied on social welfare schemes. Following this, Tesla has put off plans to make a car in India.
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