Elon Musk calls out India’s import duty on electric vehicles

Tesla chief Elon Musk on late Friday called out India’s high taxation rate (import duty) on imported cars which include electric vehicles (EVs).

Musk said on Twitter that the company wants to launch Tesla models in India as soon as possible, but “import duties are the highest in the world by far of any large country! Moreover, clean energy vehicles are treated the same as diesel or petrol, which does not seem entirely consistent with the climate goals of India.”