On the primary day of his historic USA state go to, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with the Indian diaspora in New York and met a number of influential expertise leaders together with the Twitter proprietor, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. And in accordance with Musk himself, assembly the Indian chief has left him impressed. Chatting with reporters after the assembly, Musk stated, “I’m a fan of Modi”. However that is not all, the billionaire entrepreneur additionally made an enormous revelation about Tesla vehicles coming to India.
Answering a reporter’s query after the assembly on the timeline when Tesla would possibly come to India, he stated, “I’m assured Tesla can be in India and can achieve this as quickly as humanly doable”. He added that Tesla is prone to finalise a location to arrange its India manufacturing unit by the tip of 2023.
Elon Musk meets PM Modi within the USA
Talking on PM Modi’s function in bringing new expertise corporations to India and growing the expertise infrastructure of the nation, Musk stated, “I can say he actually desires to do the correct factor for India. He desires to be open, he desires to be supportive of recent corporations, clearly, however on the identical time, ensure that it accrues to India’s benefit. I’m a fan of Modi”.
Earlier than the journey, PM Modi took to Twitter to announce, “In USA, I will even get the chance to fulfill enterprise leaders, work together with the Indian group and meet thought leaders from totally different walks of life. We search to deepen India-USA ties in key sectors like commerce, commerce, innovation, expertise, and different such areas”. Replying to the tweet, Musk stated, “It was an honor to fulfill once more”.
This isn’t the primary time Musk and Modi are assembly one another. The duo met beforehand in 2015 through the latter’s go to to the Tesla Motors manufacturing unit in California.
“It was a implausible assembly with the Prime Minister and I like him rather a lot. He visited our manufacturing unit a number of years in the past. So, we now have recognized one another for some time,” Musk advised the reporters.
“I’m extremely enthusiastic about the way forward for India. I feel India has extra promise than any giant nation on the earth,” he added.
