Bhavish Aggarwal Co-founder of Ola Cabs and Ola Electric, strike back at Elon Musk’s tweet while Musk was responding to a user asking him questions about his plans to put up a manufacturing facility in India and make electric cars domestically.
“Tesla will not put a manufacturing plant in any location where we are not allowed first to sell & service cars”. The reply was a direct dig at the Indian government, who is pushing Musk to make cars in India to avail of duty benefits.
In which the Ola CEO reply ” Thanks but no thanks”, and his reaction came after the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke about manufacturing a Tesla in India and avoiding selling cars made in China’s financial hub of Shanghai.
Recently Nitin Gadkari said, “It is a very easy alternative, if Elon Musk is ready to manufacture a Tesla in India, there is no problem. We have got all competencies, the vendors are available. We have got all types of technology and because of that, he can reduce the cost.” In addition, he said “He is welcome in India. We don’t have any problem, but, suppose, he wants to manufacture in China and sell in India, it cannot be a good proposition for India. Our request to him is, come to India and manufacture here.”
