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Elon Musk says Tesla 'would love to be' in India this year or next

The Narendra Modi-led government has been wooing Tesla to set up a factory but Musk, in a May 2018 Twitter post, had pointed to 'some challenging government regulations' as a hurdle

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Anurag Kotoky | Bloomberg
Elon Musk isn’t giving up on bringing Tesla Inc. to India.

“Would love to be there this year. If not, definitely next!” Tesla’s billionaire chief executive officer said in a Twitter post, nearly ten months after he blamed restrictive policy for delaying the carmaker’s entry into the world’s fourth largest automobile market.

Would love to be there this year. If not, definitely next! India

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2019

The Narendra Modi-led government has been wooing Tesla to set up a factory but Musk, in a May 2018 Twitter post, had pointed to “some challenging