{"id":441027,"date":"2021-10-09T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T04:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441027"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T05:48:42","slug":"have-asked-tesla-to-make-evs-in-india-govt-will-give-all-support-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/have-asked-tesla-to-make-evs-in-india-govt-will-give-all-support-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Have asked Tesla to make EVs in India; govt will give all support: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he has asked US-based Tesla several times to manufacture its iconic electric vehicles in India, while assuring that all support will be provided by the government to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing &#8216;India Today Conclave 2021&#8217;, Gadkari further said electric cars manufactured by Tata Motors are not less good than electric cars manufactured by Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have told Tesla that don&#8217;t sell electric cars in India which your company has manufactured in China. You should manufacture electric cars in India, and also export cars from India,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has demanded reduction in import duties on electric vehicles (EVs) in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he has asked US-based Tesla several times to manufacture its iconic electric vehicles in India, while assuring that all support will be provided by the government to the company. Addressing &#8216;India Today Conclave 2021&#8217;, Gadkari further said electric cars manufactured by Tata Motors are not less good than electric cars manufactured by Tesla. &#8220;I have told Tesla that don&#8217;t sell electric cars in India which your company has manufactured in China. You should manufacture electric cars in India, and also export cars from India,&#8221; he said. Tesla has demanded reduction in import duties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}