FWIW, I don't know, I'm guessing, but the road trip culture is maybe not as great in
Sudamerica than America. Therefore, Superchargers may be less critical to success.
That's not me, as in 2019 I
turned my Canadian Model 3 around at Monterrey instead of continuing West to Baja. Would have been fun (if it was safe).
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As everywhere else I have been, South America has huge variation between driving habits. There is a significant minority everywhere i have been that pursues long road trips. I have been surprised how common that is, despite hearing from allegedly informed people that such behavior does not happen.
Among people who are likely to be typical Tesla drivers, excluding the upcoming smaller car, I think there is a more likely long road trip behavior than is typical for less affluent people. OTOH, the caseiro (houseman) of my mother-in-law rgularly, three times a year drives from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador, Bahia and back again, roughly 2000 miles Road trip. I offer that vignette only to illustrate what really is need in nearly every country Tesla enters.
That is, simply, provide for road trips between all major cities that are commonly connected by road. Obviously, long thin countries, like Chile, are easy to cover adequately. Smaller countries with highly concentrated populations, like Equador, are also easy to cover. Huge countries with highly diverse large population centers, like Brazil (roughly the size of the 48 US States, are far more complex to cover. Similar logic holds in other places, like Turkey and many others, with Greece one of the more difficult because of all those islands.
Tesla has been quite adept in managing such challenges. It's really not to difficult. Beginning with decent coverage in major cities with large likely buyers, probably about fen or so in Brazil, for example, while adding coverage every 150km or so between those cities on major routes. That has been the Tesla pattern nearly everywhere, including perhaps the most challenging of all, China, where they even put Supercharger on Mount Everest Base Camp. That last one displays a Tesla specialty, putting Superchargers where there si a highly valued 'tripping tourist market' that generates popular interest. Of course they've not yet done the NA equivalent, lower 48 to Anchorage.
As with many such cases around the world Tesla can do the job without question. Deciding how to administer and protect locations is a major issue that is growing. That has historically been managed by placing Superchargers where trippers would stop anyway, with security and services already in place.
Probably more information than you asked or expected. FWIW, as a onetime driver from Paris to Tehran, and 2015 San Francisco-Atlanta in an S70, not to mention many others, I am acutely aware of the importance of infrastructure everywhere Tesla goes, even if very few people actually go there. It's rather like buying any other vehicle because you'll need its features once or twice a year, maybe.
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