WHEN Peruvian green energy entrepreneur Luis Zwiebach wanted to buy an electric vehicle (EV) in 2019, he flew about 6,500km to California to test drive Tesla’s Model 3 sedan. But Tesla lacked an official importer and he couldn’t find a way around Peru’s complex vehicle import procedures.
He was not deterred. “There was a gentleman who had already imported one and wanted to sell it,” Zwiebach says. “So I went to see it, and I bought it.”
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