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.”
Charging the Tesla initially proved difficult at his friend’s beach house outside Lima. "The car wouldn’t charge because there was no grounding device,” he said. "We grabbed a fork, stuck it into the soil to make a ground — and the car charged.”
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