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The Centre on Monday (June 2, 2025) notified the rules to advertise home manufacturing of electrical automobiles, providing a concessional import responsibility of 15% on fully built-up items on a day Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy mentioned world EV big Tesla was not focused on manufacturing automobiles in India.
The detailed tips for the “Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Electrical Passenger Vehicles in India” (SPMEPCI) comes 15 months after the federal government first introduced its import coverage. The discover for inviting functions underneath the scheme will probably be notified shortly.
“Tesla… They’re extra [interested] solely to start out showrooms. They aren’t to [start] manufacturing in India,” Mr. Kumaraswamy advised reporters in the course of the launch of the rules.
The scheme permits EV producers to import Utterly Constructed-in Items (CBUs) automobiles with a minimal cost-insurance-freight worth of $35,000 at lowered customs responsibility of 15% for a interval of 5 years from the date of the appliance approval. The utmost variety of electrical 4 wheelers allowed to be imported on the lowered customs responsibility will probably be capped at 8,000 items per 12 months. The federal government scheme permits unutilised annual imports to be carried over into the subsequent 12 months.
In a departure from the 2024 model of the coverage, the federal government has additionally allowed brownfield investments following protests from Indian producers comparable to Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Motors.
(With PTI inputs)
Revealed – June 02, 2025 08:31 pm IST
