{"id":11266,"date":"2025-07-15T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:12:03","slug":"tesla-to-sell-model-y-cars-in-india-starting-at-69770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11266\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla to sell Model Y cars in India, starting at $69,770"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s Tesla is selling its Model Y cars in India starting at about $69,770, as the electric car maker prepared to open its first showroom in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s\u00a0Tesla<\/a>\u00a0has priced its\u00a0Model\u00a0Y at about $69,770 in\u00a0India, the highest among major markets, its website showed, as the electric carmaker geared up to open its first showroom in Mumbai on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

With delivery estimated to start from the third quarter,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0will drive on to\u00a0India’s busy roads, targeting a niche premium EV segment that accounts for just 4% of overall sales in the world’s third-largest car market.<\/p>\n

It will compete mainly with German luxury giants such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, rather than domestic mass-market EV players such as Tata Motors\u00a0and Mahindra.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s\u00a0Model\u00a0Y rear-wheel drive will set back buyers 6 million rupees ($70,000), while its\u00a0Model\u00a0Y long-range rear-wheel drive costs 6.8 million.<\/p>\n

That compares with a\u00a0starting\u00a0price from\u00a0$44,990<\/a>\u00a0in the United States, 263,500 yuan ($36,700) in China, and 45,970 euros ($53,700) in Germany.<\/p>\n

Grappling with excess capacity in global factories and declining\u00a0sales,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0has adopted a strategy of\u00a0selling imported vehicles in\u00a0India,\u00a0despite\u00a0duties and levies running into roughly 70%.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, police guarded\u00a0Tesla’s first showroom in\u00a0India\u00a0as media crowded outside the office complex where it is located and the chief minister of the western state of Maharashtra, home to the\u00a0Indian commercial capital, arrived for the launch.<\/p>\n

Inside the showroom clad in\u00a0Tesla’s signature minimalist neutral tones, the\u00a0Model\u00a0Y was draped under black and grey covers, partially visible through the glass. Access was tightly regulated, with no sign of fans or onlookers nearby.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s website showed the\u00a0Model\u00a0Y available for registration in Mumbai at an on-road price of 6.1 million rupees, with a booking deposit of 22,220 rupees.<\/p>\n

The firm’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) capability is on offer at an additional cost of 600,000 rupees, with future updates promised to enable operation with minimal driver intervention.<\/p>\n

While the current features require active driver supervision and are not fully autonomous,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0says the system will evolve through over-the-air software updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Tesla is selling its Model Y cars in India starting at about $69,770, as the electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10060,5681,28,122,11,2344,11227,11228,74,10058],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-autos","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-india","tag-mercedes-benz-group-ag","tag-mumbai","tag-technology","tag-tesla-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}