Tesla will begin its operations in India “early” 2021, a top Indian minister said on Monday, a day after the tech carmaker said it was confident it would enter the world’s second most populated market next year. From a report: The American car company will begin operations with sales in early 2021 and then “maybe” look at assembling and manufacturing of cars in the country, India’s transport minister Nitin Gadkari told newspaper Indian Express. How early? Definitely not next month, Musk tweeted over the weekend. Tesla, which broke ground in early 2019 on a $5 billion factory in China — its first outside of the U.S. — has for years expressed interest in expanding to India. But in a 2018 tweet, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk shared that “some government regulations” in India had emerged as a roadblock.
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