Shanghai –
A private jet linked to Tesla CEO Elon Musk landed in Beijing on Sunday, a flight tracking app showed, as two people with knowledge of the matter said the billionaire began a surprise visit to the automaker’s second-largest market .
Musk is seeking to meet senior Chinese officials in Beijing to discuss the rollout of Full-Self Driving (FSD) software in China and seek approval to transfer data collected in the country abroad to train algorithms for its autonomous driving technologies , one of the people said.
Tesla has stored all data collected by its Chinese fleet in Shanghai since 2021, as required by Chinese regulators, and has not sent any data back to the United States.
