American EV big Tesla’s billionaire boss, Elon Musk’s admiration for all issues India contains Tata conglomerate’s octogenarian boss Ratan Tata. In his interview with Charlie Ross, an American journalist in 2009, the then-budding spacetech and EV entrepreneur lauded Ratan Tata as a “gentleman and scholar.” The clip from about 15 years in the past goes viral on the X/Twitter app now. Musk was appreciating Ratan Tata’s formidable Tata Nano undertaking that delivered inexpensive vehicles to the Indian center class. The Nano lineup of four-wheelers was launched in 2008, pegged because the world’s least expensive vehicles with a price ticket of Rs 1 lakh on the heights of world recession. Whereas praising Ratan Tata on Nano, Musk quipped,
“I believe it’s a good suggestion to have an inexpensive automobile; I believe the issue with one thing just like the Nano, which I believe by the way in which is a superb thought, and Ratan Tata is a gentleman and scholar. . .the price of buying a automobile is far much less a difficulty than the price of working a automobile.”
Plugging within the USP of an EV automobile, Musk remarked that
“oil goes to be very, very costly.”
The Tata Nano was discontinued in 2018 following a decade of manufacturing hurdles and different points. Ratan Tata by no means revived his pet undertaking once more. So lengthy, Tata Nano!
He fulfilled his promise to construct the world’s least expensive automobile.
– Ratan Tata wished to construct a automobile, which the center class of India may afford and so he delivered on his promise and launched Tata Nano for simply $1,200 (₹1 lakh) in 2008.
– @ElonMusk additionally shared his views on the… pic.twitter.com/QqTY5KuQLK
— Nico Garcia (@nicogarcia) August 26, 2024
And its the top of the street …..for TATA Nano🚗Bye Bye world’s least expensive carIndia’s Tata Motors confirmed just one Tata Nano was produced in June and that the automobile in its “current type can’t proceed past 2019.”@TataMotors @tatanano_tweets pic.twitter.com/zubh9lD8u1
— GaonConnection (@GaonConnection) July 13, 2018
The media report claimed that the typical each day manufacturing of Nano vehicles on the Tata Motor’s Sanand plant was all the way down to “simply two”. https://t.co/AYUZW2SvS9
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) November 26, 2017
टाटा की नैनो कार का उत्पादन ठप, इस साल सितंबर तक केवल एक कार बिकी https://t.co/Ww1EbyxVEU #TataNano #Nano #CarMarket #MarutiSuzuki #टाटानैनो #नैनो #मारुतिसुजुकी #कारबाजार
— द वायर हिंदी (@thewirehindi) October 8, 2019
Tata Nano ends 2019 with zero manufacturing; gross sales of 1 unit
Learn: https://t.co/kfgwVmQbXD pic.twitter.com/uPLwhRpK1t
— The Instances Of India (@timesofindia) January 6, 2020
RIP Tata Nano. Finish of the street for world’s least expensive automobile, just one unit made in June https://t.co/GCXtzLktoN pic.twitter.com/XsTRJzRB7x
— Hindustan Instances (@htTweets) July 11, 2018
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Whereas Elon Musk praised the Tata boss, surprise how he would praise the rival EV producer in India who thinks the Tesla boss is merely copying him.
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