EVWire brief: Tesla opened its first store in India in Mumbai on July 15th, 2025. It only offers Model Y for now, and at a high price due to the tariffs - expected to lower soon. It has also started the Supercharging network rollout.
The first-ever Tesla car deliveries in the country will start this quarter, and sales registration will start in Delhi, Mumbai, and Gurugram.
Starting prices of the Teslas currently in India are:
Model Y RWD: ₹61,07,190 ($69,700)
Model Y LR RWD: ₹69,15,190 ($79,000)
Every new Model Y comes with a free Wall Connector.
The high prices are due to the strong import taxes right now, and we can assume Tesla will be getting rid of India's current high automotive import tax of 70%-100% and it’d be reduced to around 10% in the near future. The current Model Ys brought to the country have been imported from Giga Shanghai.
FSD also costs $7,000 in India. Model Y RWD deliveries start in Q3, while Model Y LR RWD deliveries start in Q4 2025.
Here’s the CNBC video coverage from the launch:
Also, CMO Maharashtra — office of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis — shared a live 4-minute livestream video of the opening on its X account.
He said things like "Tesla is not just a car company, it is all about design, innovation, and sustainability. The people of Mumbai and the people of India are going to love Tesla, and you (Tesla) will have one of your best market in India. I think Tesla is going to change the entire market."
Tesla has also added 8 “coming soon” Supercharger locations on its network map already, as it is common for Tesla to start building the SC network when starting deliveries in a new country.
I’m hoping they’ll wrap the first time as a proper milestone edition, but in the meantime, I managed to create quite a decent one with AI:
About the EV situation in India itself — I’ll resurface the statistics from my 2024 global EV sales analysis:
🇮🇳 India: In 2024, there were 99,055 battery electric passenger cars sold,
+20.8% Year over Year growth,
1.99% EV share in all passenger cars sold.
The EV growth in the 3rd-largest car market in the world has been solid: EV sales doubled in 2023 (+114.3%), and 2024 +21% on top of that. The EV market share went from 1.74%→ 1.99% in 2024.
Now, the first half of 2025 has already shown new records in EV sales (I’m putting together a report on H1 2025 soon), and now with Tesla entering the market…
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