Ola CEO ‘strongly disagrees’ with Tesla, Hyundai on import duties

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal stated on Tuesday that he “strongly disagreed” with the views of Tesla and Hyundai on decrease import duties for electrical automobiles in India. He stated India ought to trust in its capacity to construct electrical automobiles indigenously whereas additionally attracting international producers.

Earlier on Tuesday, Hormazd Sorabjee, editor of Autocar India, had tweeted: “Hyundai MD S S Kim backs Tesla’s name for decrease duties in India on imported EVs. Says ‘decrease duties will assist develop the EV market’.”

ET
reported on Tuesday, citing a senior authorities official, that the federal government is open to contemplating decrease import responsibility and different incentives for Tesla if the corporate decides to fabricate its vehicles in India.

Final week, Elon Musk had
said that though he was fascinated about promoting Teslas in India, the nation’s import duties had been “the best on the earth by far of any giant nation”. He added, “Furthermore, clear power automobiles are handled the identical as diesel or petrol, which doesn’t appear totally according to the local weather targets of India.”

However Aggarwal stated that he disagreed with each Musk and Kim. He wrote, “Strongly disagree with each. Let’s trust in our capacity to construct indigenously and in addition entice international OEMs to construct in India, not simply import. We can’t be the primary nation to take action.”

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