There is some good news coming in from Palo Alto, California, as Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla , has confirmed on social media that the new age electric vehicle making company will finally come to India this summer. We had earlier reported , that Tesla is looking to set-up their plant in India and will bring with it, its electric sedans, roadsters and SUVs to India by 2017.

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Musk confirmed on Twitter to a query by Ishan Goel, who asked the CEO's plan to launch Tesla in India. To which, Musk replied " Hoping for summer this year".

@goel_ishan Hoping for summer this year Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2017

In July last year, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari urged the US-based electric car major Tesla to make India its Asia manufacturing hub and also offered it land near major Indian ports to facilitate exports to South and South East Asian countries. Road Transport and Highways Minister Gadkari visited the Tesla factory near San Francisco last year and offered to promote joint ventures between the firm and Indian automobile companies with a view to introducing pollution-free road transport in India, especially commercial and public motor vehicles.

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Gadkari said, "He proposed to the Tesla senior executives to make India their Asia manufacturing hub and offered land near major Indian ports to facilitate export of their vehicles to South and South East Asian countries."

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On April 1, 2016, Tesla founder Elon Musk said that the brand is going to be releasing its electric cars in India. Musk tweeted that the incoming Model 3 will be launched in new markets including India, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Ireland.

Adding several more countries to Model 3 order page tonight. Check for details, but will include India, Brazil, SA, SK, NZ, Sing & Ireland. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2016

The Model 3 will be Tesla's most affordable electric car at $35,000 (Rs 23 lakh approx) and its deliveries will start at the end of 2017. The car is said to reach a speed of 60 miles per hour in just 6 seconds. The car will have a range of 346 km on a single charge, and there will be versions of the cars which have an even better range.

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The Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X are luxury vehicles through and through as they cost $100,000 in the US. The Model 3 is still an expensive vehicle by Indian standards - but it is also one-third the price of Tesla's other cars.

Tesla's entry in India also comes after Prime Minister Modi met with Elon Musk last September during his Silicon Valley tour. During the visit Musk gave Modi a tour of the Tesla factory and said that he would bring the Tesla Powerball to India, which is a solar powered battery that the company sells in the US, which can theoretically take a household off the grid and make it autonomous.

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