DAEGU < invest Korea

According to Yonhap News,

(DAEGU=Yonhap News) Daegu Metropolitan Government announced that a team of provincial officials led by the City Mayor Kwon Young-jin and executives at Tesla Motors agreed on mutual cooperation for development of the future car industry.

The team of delegates from Daegu met Tesla's executives at the The Tesla Factory in Fremont, California on January 5 to discuss ways for future cooperation.

Tesla will also send the head of its Asia Pacific Office to Daegu on January 18 to work on detailed cooperation roadmap.

In addition, the automaker will positively consider sending staff and providing technology consultation for Daegu's future car exhibition scheduled in November 2017. It also pledged to provide consulting services to research institutes in Daegu.

Deagu will help promote sales of Tesla and make efforts to establish high-speed charging stations exclusive to exclusive to cars produced from the automaker. The city will serve as a test bed for the company's electric vehicles as well.

Tesla showed a great interest in Daegu's technology development agreement with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for autonomous vehicles and a test driving center for self-driving cars at the Daegu Technopolis.

"Following the agreement, Daegu will be a gateway to the Korean market for Tesla, while Tesla will be a partner for Daegu's future car development strategies," Mayor Kwon said. He added that "We hope more collaboration will take place between global car makers and Daegu's automotive components suppliers."

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