Special treatment for Tesla not in India’s interest: Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal, report says

“Tesla is free to return in and put up a store right here and promote its vehicles,” Aggarwal advised the London-based enterprise publication Monetary Occasions. “They only need to be handled in another way from others, which I consider will not be within the pursuits of India.”

The Elon Musk run-company had a eager curiosity in coming into the Indian market, however the firm’s demand for lower import duties has led to a tussle with the Indian authorities, inflicting it to halt its plans. Musk tweeted about his lack of curiosity in establishing a plant in India in Could.

Tesla desires to import and promote its vehicles in India first earlier than manufacturing right here. The corporate is thought to foyer governments world wide for particular incentives. In China, for instance, Tesla has been capable of begin operations with out having to accomplice with a neighborhood firm, which has been the regulation within the nation for a few years.

The corporate’s first rent in India was Manuj Khurana, who joined as public coverage head in 2021 to steer its lobbying efforts. However Reuters reported in June that Khurana had left the corporate, indicating that the corporate’s plans to enter India had stalled. ET reported on Could 5 that
Tesla had re-assigned all of its employees to work for the larger Asia Pacific market.

Ola Electrical, in the meantime, is engaged on an electrical automobile mission and Aggarwal gave a sneak peek of it at a current occasion in Bengaluru. The corporate is scouting for land in varied states to fabricate the automobile and its personal lithium-ion battery cells. Presently, all Indian EV makers import cells from different international locations.

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The current spate of electrical automobile fires, one involving an Ola scooter, has not helped the corporate, which has seen its gross sales drop considerably month-on-month.
ET reported on June 24 that the corporate has been promoting solely 130-200 scooters a day, means off its ambition of constructing 10 million scooters a 12 months.