Special treatment for Tesla not in India's interest: Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal

After one scooter caught fire in March, Ola recalled the batch of 1,400

Ola founder has said granting special incentives to Tesla in India was not be in the best interests of the country, as the government has been working to accelerate the growth of homegrown champions in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, the Financial Times reported. 

Bhavish Aggarwal, chief executive of SoftBank-backed Ola, along with a handful of other companies, including Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Hyundai, recently won a tender under India’s $2.4-billion programme to boost local battery cell production. 

“Tesla is free to come in and put up shop here and sell its cars,” Aggarwal told the Financial Times. 

“They just want to