Elon Musk Heads to China After Postponing India Trip

Elon Musk was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His visit to China comes a week after his visit to India was postponed due to ‘Tesla obligations.’ Musk had planned to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and announce intentions to enter the Indian market.

Meanwhile, Musk is now seeking to meet senior Chinese officials in Beijing to discuss the rollout of Full-Self Driving (FSD) software in China. He also aims to obtain approval to transfer data collected in the country abroad to train algorithms for its autonomous driving technologies, according to Reuters. In response to a query on social media platform X, Musk stated that Tesla may make FSD available to customers in China “very soon.”

However, Musk’s visit to China was not widely publicized. According to Reuters, since 2021, Tesla has stored all data collected by its Chinese fleet in Shanghai as required by Chinese regulators and has not transferred any back to the United States. Despite customer urging, the US EV maker rolled out FSD, the most autonomous version of its Autopilot software, four years ago but has yet to make it available in China.

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