“Tesla motor’s most awaited Indian entry is on track” revealed CEO Elon Musk in twitter. The American electric car manufacturer will start the process to bring Tesla cars to India in January 2021, if all goes according to plan.
After October 2nd’s “next year for sure”, It’s second time Elon tweeted about inidan launch. Tesla had plans to launch its production plant in Bangalore (India’s silicon valley) and as per the news, Karnataka govt is working on it’s bid to have Tesla in their ground.
While the india has lot of startups and small EV manufacturers, A global giant like Tesla can accelerate the mass adoption of EV in india. It was only because of lack of charging infrastructure, India couldn’t switch to green energy transportation. While Indian middle class is dependent on public sector transport, two wheelers and budget cars, Tesla might come up with another affordable Electric car powered with LiFePO4 chemistry. The earlier announcement of Chinese manufacturer CATL and their famous 1Million Mile LiFePO4 cells, are going to energize indian auto Industry.
While tesla is busy in building their next GigaFactory in Germany, Tesla fans in India eagerly waiting for next announcement.
