![]() Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, has personally invited Musk to manufacture cars in his country. Indonesia has the world's largest reserves of nickel, which is used extensively in making batteries. Meanwhile, Musk has been considering Indonesia as an alternative manufacturing location. ![]() Tesla might just use the suspension of negotiations with the Indian government as a business strategy to further promote the negotiation. He could have delayed India plans to get a better deal from the government, Last year, Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had commented that Musk's decision to hold back Tesla's India entry could be a strategic move as the electric car-maker would still eye the Indian market for its potential. Tesla had even hired a local team and begun a search for showroom space, but that was also abandoned last year, and the team members either left or were diverted to focus on the Middle-East and the larger Asia-Pacific markets. ![]() But the Indian government insisted that the EV maker must first commit to manufacturing cars locally before the government can offer any concessions on imports. ![]() Manuj Khurana, policy and business development executive at Tesla in India at that time, lobbied the Indian government for more than a year to slash the import tax on electric cars to 40% from as high as 100%, a move Tesla said would allow it to test the market with imports from its production hubs like China before investing in a factory. ![]()
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