Toyota explores small drone system for off-road vehicle use Tesla is targeting a niche electric vehicle market in India that accounts for about 5% of overall sales in the world’s third-largest car market. Analysts estimate that the majority of cars sold in India are priced below $22,000. Since starting deliveries in September, Tesla has sold just over 100 Model Y’s in India, based on Indian government registration data. Tesla’s India General Manager Sharad Agarwal said if Indian customers considered the low cost of maintaining a Tesla and electricity versus petrol prices, they could save around $22,000 over four to five years. “Tesla does not provide a maintenance schedule because most of the service is done remotely through software updates which reduces the cost of ownership. And the cost of home charging is one tenth of petrol prices,” he told reporters in Gurugram, where the company on Wednesday opened its biggest sales and service centre in the country.