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India’s Story Bites Fingers Because Elon Musk Chooses Indonesia

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Many countries bite the finger because Elon Musk chose Indonesia for Tesla factories, one of which was India. They blame each other.

Elon Musk’s investment plan through Tesla in Indonesia, it is the talk of countries that are also eyeing the technology company. Malaysia bites the finger, India also turns out to be the same.

Apparently, the Indian government and Elon Musk have been negotiating for a long time. But India had to swallow disappointment because Elon chose Indonesia.

Several Indian media such as the India Times and ABP Live made news with the tone of why Elon Musk prefers Indonesia over India. They compactly blame the Indian government.

As seen by detikINET, Sunday (22/5/2022) ABP Live reported a lengthy analysis blaming the Indian government for ignoring Tesla’s request to reduce import taxes. Even though the reduction in import taxes, according to them, is the stage of Tesla selling cars and then building a car factory.

“It’s clear Tesla wants to try the Indian market with imported electric cars. Once that’s settled, they will produce them locally,” said ABP Live.

Another advantage of Indonesia over India is its resources nickel for electric batteries. It is this that seems India is very weak.

The India Times also blamed the Indian government for being less aggressive than the Indonesian government in attracting Elon Musk to open a factory in Bollywood. From the Indian side, it is the Minister of Transport of India, Nitin Gadkari who is negotiating with Tesla.

The India Times said that what made Elon reluctant was the exorbitantly high import tax on cars. Tesla even has a team in India led by Nishant Prasad for their potential business there.

Now Prasad has been transferred to Tesla’s Charging Operation Lead for Asia Pacific. His deputy, Manoj Khurana, was pulled by Elon Musk to California for production.

It seems that the Tesla case in India is over. They must recognize Indonesia’s superiority.

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