CEO Elon Musk is due to arrive in India next week for a visit that is expected to include a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and confirmation that Tesla plans to build a factory in the world’s most populous country.

In, Musk was expected to announce an investment of $2 billion to $3 billion, mainly to build a factory in India, after the govt announced a policy lowering high tariffs on imported cars if companies i

Hundreds of millions of voters in India, the world's largest democracy, are heading to the polls in a parliamentary election in which the ruling-Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi running for re-election.

Mr Modi took power in 2014, and retained it in 2019, riding a cresting tide of revanchist Hindu nationalism. He is, for the most part, leaning on the same appeal to win a third term, which no prime minister has managed since the first one, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1962.

India's electric vehicle market remains underdeveloped, with EV's making up around 2% of car sales in the country, which ranks as the third-biggest automobile market.

Tesla chief Elon Musk is set to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon, and the timing couldn't be any better.