Bengaluru, Aug. 5 -- Tesla India Motor & Energy Pvt Ltd, a unit of US electric carmaker Tesla Inc., has expanded its real estate footprint in the country by leasing store space in Gurugram.

Tesla will pay about Rs.40 lakh per month for 33,475 square feet of ground floor space for a retail, service and delivery centre at Orchid Business Park on Sohna Road in Gurugram. Tesla opened its first showroom in Mumbai recently.

Tesla has leased the Sohna Road space for nine years and has paid Rs.2.41 crore as security deposit, according to documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics platform. It leased the space from Garwal Property Pvt Ltd.

Sohna Road, the automobile servicing hub of the National Capital Region, is about to w...