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Lionel Lim

China, eager to show it's open to non-Chinese brands, puts Tesla on a government procurement list for the first time

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Chinese government officials were once so wary of Teslas that they barred the cars from government spaces. But now, as Western governments slap tariffs on Chinese EVs, one local government in China trusts Teslas enough to make them part of its fleet of service cars.

Jiangsu's provincial government included Tesla's Model Y on a government procurement list published June 6.

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