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Electric vehicle maker Tesla, Inc. on Monday (February 18, 2025) posted thirteen job openings in Mumbai, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the EV firm’s CEO and founder Elon Musk in Washington, DC.
The postings on LinkedIn span business operations, customer service, delivery and order operations specialists and managers, showroom staff, and technicians. While the jobs are listed for Mumbai, the descriptions mention that openings for identical roles are also open in Delhi.
An email sent to a Tesla inbox for press enquiries did not yield a response.
The firm has historically withheld a significant presence from the Indian market. Mr. Musk, who now holds a significant position in the U.S. government reshaping and cutting down federal departments, has long held that the tariffs on Tesla, were it to import cars, were too high. The firm’s CEO has also said that Tesla wanted to probe buyer interest with imports before starting assembly in India.
It is unclear if Mr. Modi and Mr. Musk discussed the issue of tariffs on EVs in their meeting on February 13. Mr. Modi said in a post on X that day that the two discussed “space, mobility, technology and innovation”. Mr. Musk was due to visit India last year before the general elections, a trip during which he was rumoured to announce investments in India. That meeting was cancelled, however.
U.S. President Donald Trump, whom Mr. Modi was visiting the U.S. to meet, has made opposition to tariffs around the world a principal plank of his trade policy and has called India among the “worst” offenders in imposing the measure on American products.
India lowered a few tariffs in the weeks leading up to the meeting, including for EV components and minerals used in their batteries. Duties on EVs were restructured, but not substantially reduced.
Published – February 18, 2025 11:36 am IST
