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ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES ARE BOOMING IN SOUTH AMERICA — WITHOUT TESLA

  • NEWS Desk Global
  • Nov 17, 2025
  • 1 min read

When Peruvian green energy entrepreneur Luis Zwiebach wanted to buy an electric vehicle in 2019, he flew 4,000 miles 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 said. “So I went to see it, and I bought it.”

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