India has boosted electricity supplies to towns and villages but still faces peak-time shortages as demand surges. It is largely dependent on coal-based power generation as storage technologies are expensive and not yet widespread.
Elon Musk's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US today and his assurance that Tesla Motors will set up shop in India "as soon as humanly possible" has revived the big question: when will that happen?
Manuj Khurana, policy and business development executive at Tesla in India, was hired in March 2021 and played a key role in forming a domestic market-entry plan for the U.S. carmaker in the country.