Tesla seeks China designer

San Francisco: Tesla is searching for a design director in China, part of efforts to open a ‘‘fullfunction’’ studio in Shanghai or Beijing and design electric cars tailored to Chinese consumer tastes, according to industry sources.

The US carmaker’s human resources managers, as well as several headhunters, have been trawling the industry over the past four months, the sources said.

China, Tesla’s No 2 market after the United States, is the world’s biggest car market, plus the largest for allelectric vehicles with sales volumes expected to reach about 1.5 million vehicles this year, consultancy LMC Automotive said. — Reuters