Two senior Tesla executives discussed the company’s plans to enter India with officials from the country’s investment promotion arm in New Delhi, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, the latest in a series of high-level talks.
The US carmaker has expressed an interest in building a factory in India that would produce a low-cost electric vehicle (EV) priced at $24,000, around 25% cheaper than Tesla’s current entry model, for both the Indian market and export.
The US-based executives – senior public policy and business development executive Rohan Patel, and a vice president for supply chain, Roshan Thomas – are currently in New Delhi and met officials from the Invest India agency,
