India is willing to offer Tesla such incentives that producing electric vehicles for the company is even less than in China if the automaker commits to expand production in the country. Elon Musk on Twitter promises to build a plant in India, and the authorities of Karnataka even announced this event. In fact, Musk just registered in India a subsidiary of Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Limited with an office in Bangalore and, according to rumors, from the middle of this year, plans to start importing Model 3 electric vehicles into this country.

Indian Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said yesterday: “The government will ensure that Tesla’s production costs are the lowest worldwide, even with China, when they start producing their vehicles in India. We will ensure it. ” But so far, the authorities have not announced a set of measures to stimulate the production of electric vehicles in the country. Moreover, the Indian government has no specific plans for decarbonizing production and the economy as a whole, except for the obligations under the Paris Agreement.

Against India and other countries’ backgrounds, China looks like a model for implementing long-term programs for decarbonization of the same transport. For example, last year, 1.25 million electric vehicles were sold in China out of 20 million units, and in India, only 5000 out of 2.4 million were sold. In China, an infrastructure for servicing electric transport is rapidly created, and in India, it is all in its infancy. … Therefore, with all due respect to the Indian authorities, it should be recognized that promises alone will not be enough.

To make full-fledged production of Tesla electric cars in India cheaper than in China, grandiose structural changes are required in the mass of industries, which takes years and years of work. A good example is planning to build a semiconductor plant in India. These plans will soon be two decades old, and no one has ever begun this process.