According to reports, tesla india team will be reallocated to the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) and other markets, the main task of most of Tesla's employees in India was to focus on the company's development layout in India and some other Middle Eastern markets, and now Tesla is moving its employees from India to the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan.
Tesla has been trying to break into the Indian auto market for several years, but its development plan is clearly unable to compromise with the government, and while Tesla has obtained several business licenses in 2021 and made some progress in India (Tesla even started looking for retail outlets in major Indian cities last year), it has imposed a 60% import tariff on electric vehicles priced at $40,000 (about 268,900 yuan) or less, the price is higher than 40,000 After the implementation of the 100% import tariff policy on electric vehicles in the US dollar, Tesla's development in India has once again stalled.
After Tesla repeatedly lobbied the Indian government to reduce import tariffs, but the Indian government's reply to Tesla was that if Tesla was willing to buy $500 million worth of auto parts from India, India would give tax cut support, although things seemed to have turned around, but with the words of Nitin Gadkari, india's joint road transport and highway minister, the turnaround immediately disappeared. India's Minister of Transport explained this way: According to the strategy previously adopted by many automakers, they can produce some vehicles abroad and assemble them in Indian factories, and the Indian government believes that the current tariffs are acceptable for auto companies, which is not an obstacle, and the Indian government will eventually reject Tesla's request to reduce tariffs.
With the contradiction between Tesla and the Indian government continues to appear, recently there is news that India particularly emphasizes that Tesla can not sell Chinese-made cars in the country, and believes that this sales method is not good for Tesla's development in the country, because the Indian government's various measures continue to impact Tesla's consideration of the Indian market, so when Tesla is facing an ever-changing Indian market and a strong demand for the Chinese market, the final result can be imagined. And this may be one of the reasons why Tesla will move the Indian team to the Asia-Pacific region, after all, it is obviously not in Tesla's interest to abandon a market with growing demand for an unknown market.