Written by Cláudio Afonso | LinkedIn | X
In June 2023, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that “a significant investment and relationship with India” were “quite likely” in the future.
Less than a year later, Tesla imported some Model 3 and Model Y vehicles and registered them in the state of Karnataka. However, the expansion has accelerated with the meeting between Musk and India’s PM Narendra Modi in Washington.
Over the past few weeks, the company has finalized locations for company-owned showrooms in Aerocity, Delhi, and BKC, Mumbai. CNBC-TV18 reported on Thursday that the company is considering exporting its vehicles from the Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany.
Citing sources, Bloomberg reported earlier this Thursday that Tesla will start sales in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore “around the third quarter of the year.”
First Job Openings
Tesla started earlier this week opening job openings in the country with the first positions including delivery operations specialist, store manager, service advisor, service technician and Tesla advisor.
China’s Weekly Registrations
Tesla registered 7,450 vehicles between February 10 and 16, up from 6,220 in the previous week — data from the Chinese carmaker Li Auto showed on Tuesday.
In the same week Tesla halted production of the older Model Y to ramp up the new version, the company registered 1,340 units of the SUV, while Model 3 sales climbed to 6,110 units, up from 2,360 the previous week.
Deliveries of the new Model Y are set to begin in late February, with Tesla’s China registrations—its largest market—expected to trail last year’s figures until SUV production ramps up.
