Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the electric carmaker will be in India "as soon as humanly possible".
His comments followed a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a state visit to the US.
The Indian government said it had invited Mr Musk to explore investment opportunities in electric mobility and the commercial space sector.
Mr Musk said he was "trying to figure out the right timing" to make that happen.
Mr Modi's meeting with Mr Musk, who also owns Twitter, came days after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey accused India of threatening to shut down the platform for not complying with its orders to take down content from the website.
Mr Dorsey's allegations, made in an interview with an independent news show, were strongly denied by the Indian government, which called it "an outright lie".
Mr Musk commented on the episode on Wednesday and said that Twitter didn't have a choice but to obey local governments or "we will get shut down".
"We will do our best to provide the freest speech that is possible under the law," he said.
Mr Musk also called himself a "fan of Mr Modi" and said that India had "more promise than any large country in the world".
"He [Mr Modi] really cares about India because he's pushing us to make significant investments in India, which is something we intend to do. We are just trying to figure out the right timing," he told reporters. "I am confident that Tesla will be in India and will do so as soon as humanly possible."
Tesla has been in talks with Indian bureaucrats and ministers as it looks to enter the domestic market.
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