{"id":343959,"date":"2026-01-19T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:08:48","slug":"tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla turns to discounts, explores new sales channels amid early setback in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Tesla model y facelift\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>Tesla\u2019s initial journey in India has proved challenging, as it struggles to find customers for its first and only car in local showrooms, the Model Y. Just six months into its arrival, it has had to resort to discounts to clear inventory, a move that contrasts sharply with the strong pre-launch hype. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/01\/19\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Tesla model y facelift&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;Tesla\u2019s initial journey in India has proved challenging, as it struggles to find customers for its first and only car in local showrooms, the Model Y. Just six months into its arrival, it has had to resort to discounts to clear&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-turns-to-discounts-explores-new-sales-channels-amid-early-setback-in-india\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":343960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}