{"id":461647,"date":"2022-01-13T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=461647"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:16:17","slug":"elon-musk-flags-lot-of-challenges-for-teslas-drive-into-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elon-musk-flags-lot-of-challenges-for-teslas-drive-into-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk flags &#8216;lot of challenges&#8217; for Tesla\u2019s drive into India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a foothold in India for his Tesla is not going to be easy for Elon Musk. \u201cStill working through a lot of challenges with the government,\u201d the billionaire said in a Twitter post, replying to a user who wanted to know if there was any update on Tesla\u2019s launch in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been pushing for his cars in India since 2019. Talks between the American electric-vehicle pioneer and Centre have led to an impasse over a local factory and the country\u2019s import duties of as much as 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Musk last month had tweeted that import duties in India are among the highest in the world and the nation treats clean energy vehicles the same as petrol, which isn\u2019t consistent with its climate goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a foothold in India for his Tesla is not going to be easy for Elon Musk. \u201cStill working through a lot of challenges with the government,\u201d the billionaire said in a Twitter post, replying to a user who wanted to know if there was any update on Tesla\u2019s launch in the country. Musk has been pushing for his cars in India since 2019. Talks between the American electric-vehicle pioneer and Centre have led to an impasse over a local factory and the country\u2019s import duties of as much as 100%. Musk last month had tweeted that import duties in [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461647","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=461647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}