Tesla Inc has started hiring for senior level roles in India, according to news agency Bloomberg. The electric-car maker is looking for a head of sales and marketing and a head of human resources, the news report mentioned.
Elon Musk, the celebrity chief executive of Tesla confirmed that Tesla Inc. would enter India in January. Musk earlier tweeted “as promised? in response to a report that the automaker was in talks with several states to open an office, showrooms and possibly a factory in India.
Tesla has selected Karnataka for its first plant, Karnataka chief minister said in February. There has been reports that Tesla had hired Manuj Khurana, a former executive of India?s investment promotion body Invest India, to lead its lobbying and business efforts. The company has also recruited Nishant as Charging Manager who will head the supercharging, destination charging and home charging business for Tesla India. A Tesla fan club tweeted last week the company had brought on board a senior legal counsel.
The electric vehicle giant has been looking for commercial properties as large as 20,000-30,000 square feet each to open showrooms and service centres in the capital New Delhi, financial hub Mumbai in the west and tech city Bengaluru in the south, Mint reported earlier.
Tesla is also closely monitoring Indian government?s recent announcements regarding changes to the country’s goods-and-sales tax that may reduce the cost of owning an electric car, Bloomberg reported.
The Union government last month approved a ₹18,100 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for manufacturing batteries. This another major step by Modi government towards switching to electric vehicles to curb rampant pollution. The plan is to set up 50 giga watt hour (GWh) manufacturing capacity for advance chemistry cell batteries by attracting investments totaling ₹45,000 crore, according to the government. The consumer electronics, electric vehicles, advanced electricity grids, solar rooftop etc. which are major battery consuming sectors were expected to achieve robust growth in the coming years. It was expected that the dominant battery technologies will control some of the world’s largest growth sectors, the government said.
To create global manufacturing hubs in the country, the Union government announced PLI schemes worth ₹1.97 lakh crore for 13 sectors last year.
(With inputs from agencies)
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