According to the Global Times, as the world is solving the epidemic and paying attention to the Beijing Winter Olympics, there is another country that is staring at China and shouting that it wants to surpass China, and this country is neighboring India.
On February 8, local time, India's Ministry of Heavy Industry Defense Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar shouted tesla that unless Tesla produces electric vehicles in India, India will not relax the sales ban on Tesla.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said as early as 2019 that he wanted to enter the Indian market, and also proposed to the Indian government to cut the import tax on electric vehicles to 40%, but neither side reached an agreement, India wants Tesla to produce locally in India, Musk agreed to this request, but India is still dissatisfied.
India believes that if Tesla wants to enter the Indian market, it should provide jobs for India, and Indians should make electric vehicles, and Guljar said that the Indian government will never allow Tesla to seize the Indian market, but create jobs for China.
In 2021, Tesla's total annual revenue reached 53.823 billion US dollars, of which China accounted for 13.844 billion US dollars, second only to the US market, and rose by more than 110% for two consecutive years, of which Tesla provided strong support, is the Shanghai Gigafactory, in 2021 alone, Shanghai Gigafactory exported 160,000 vehicles, of which the Model 3 export volume reached 130,000 vehicles, accumulated exports to Germany, Italy, France and dozens of other countries.
The Chinese market not only has a huge demand, Chinese factories can also continue to "supply blood" for Tesla, and musk has established a factory in Berlin, Germany, but still has not put into production, it is reported that it may be put into production in mid-March, and once the factories in China, the United States and Germany are put into production, Tesla will not necessarily have the intention of opening a new factory in the short term, and it turns out that Tesla is inseparable from Chinese manufacturing, and it is inseparable from the Chinese market.
Coupled with the Indian environment is difficult to meet the conditions for building factories, water and power cuts and other complex situations make major brands hesitate, and the Indian epidemic once made the world pay attention, once the outbreak will become the second Vietnam, resulting in a large number of factory shutdowns, workers are reluctant to return to the factory situation.
India ignores its own situation, ignores the Us factory and the German factory, and grasps China to say things, which shows its "stinginess" and the psychology of catching up with and surpassing China. But it will be difficult to achieve the idea of "manufacturing in India, selling in India, and exporting from India", and in the face of strong Chinese manufacturing and a perfect manufacturing environment with China, India should not try to curb China's industrial development.