[AUTOMOBILE] Tesla chooses Beijing for its new Chinese design centre US electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Inc has chosen Beijing as the location for its new Chinese vehicle design centre, according to local reports citing a Beijing government document. The carmaker announced early last year that it planned to establish a “full-function” design studio in the country, either in Shanghai or Beijing, to develop vehicles closely tailored to the Chinese market. Soon after it launched a local recruitment campaign and specified it was looking to appoint a “bi-cultural” director with more than 20 years’ experience to be in charge of...