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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Tesla will enter India next year once again. This time he said it in a reply from his official Twitter account.
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Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk has indicated that the American electric carmaker will make a foray into India in 2021. “Next year for sure,” Musk said on Twitter in response to a post with a photo of a T-shirt. with the message: “India wants Tesla.”
“Thanks for waiting,” Musk said.
This won’t be the first time Elon Musk has said that Tesla will come to India. In 2018, the CEO of the electric car company had said on Twitter that Tesla could be “hopefully” entering India next year, in 2019. This was followed by a statement issued by IIT Madras in 2019, which mentioned that Elon Musk had said that the company’s entry into our country “will probably occur within a year.”
If Tesla comes to India, its entry could come at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is increasingly focused on promoting the use and manufacture of electric vehicles.
India’s auto sector, which is already recovering from slowing demand last year, has been further affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic and automakers are seeking government support to boost sales.
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Last year, Musk also mentioned about coming to India in response to someone on Twitter who asked, “What about India sir?”
Also read: The first Tesla research center in India could soon be in Bangalore, the second in the world after the US.
“I would love to be there this year. If not, definitely next!” said in March 2019.
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