{"id":3962,"date":"2016-07-22T06:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2016-07-22T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:07:12","slug":"why-india-is-really-interested-in-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/why-india-is-really-interested-in-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India is really interested in Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>This week I read reports <\/a>in the local newspaper about Indian transport minister Nitin Gadkari’s visit to the Tesla plant in the US. The hon’ble minister invited Tesla to come and make in India. We could do with more cars like Tesla on Indian roads — electric powered vehicles will certainly bring down the pollution levels. But I’m not so sure if everyone can afford a Tesla Model-3 (the lowest priced model) which sells for $35,000 (INR 23,49,550). And there would certainly be a long waiting list. Right now I’m imagining a lot of Tesla’s zooming on Indian roads in autopilot mode;\u00a0 I’m not so sure if autopilot will reduce the number of road accidents in India. Will Tesla cars in India become as common as the local Auto Rickshaw (tuk-tuk)? I suspect that the Indian government is really after something else — like the Solar energy business (SolarCity<\/a>) —\u00a0 a sister concern of Tesla. And of course, the batteries that power the Teslas. Then there could also be interests in SpaceX (a partnership with India’s ISRO, perhaps).<\/p>\n Before I delve on the clean energy business, a small deviation, if I may?<\/p>\n