At the Indian Foreign Policy and Geoeconomy Conference Raisina Dialogue 2022, India Road Transport and Highway Union Minister Nitin Gadkaree said: Tesla must produce vehicles in India to allow it to sell vehicles in the Indian market, and at the same time, It is very unwelcome to welcome Sales of Chinese-made Tesla cars in India.
In fact, from the perspective of geographical environment, exporting vehicles from China to India is the most cost-effective for Tesla, because Tesla's other factories are built in Europe and the United States, and it is too far from Asia, if you transport vehicles from these places to India, the cost is actually very high, and it is very troublesome, and there is no benefit for Tesla.
India's transport minister believes that selling Chinese-made Tesla cars in the Indian market is a bad choice, and has to admit that it is also affected by political factors. In addition, the Indian government has previously said that if Tesla can rely on Indian factories to produce Tesla cars, then India will do its best to provide Tesla with all the necessary help, but in fact, India has not given Tesla a green light all the way, until August last year Tesla did not get approval from India.
It can be seen that India is actually more rejecting non-local brands, which is a kind of protection for the domestic automobile manufacturing industry, and its purpose is to enable India's local car brands not to be uncompetitive in front of international car brands, so India's import tariffs are very high. If China's introduction of Tesla is to play a catfish effect, in order to stimulate the competitiveness of mainland car brands, then India does not easily introduce other countries' car brands in order not to have a devastating blow to local brands, but there is no way for high-selling car brands such as Tesla, only to ask Tesla not to sell Chinese-made cars.
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