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Tesla shock has hit Europe’s car makers as bewildered electric car industry competitors scramble to react to this month’s sensational sales surge from Tesla’s newly arrived Model S in Norway, Europe’s undisputed electric car capital. The newly landed Tesla Model S, after a market presence of less than two months, already topped Norway’s best-sellers' list during the opening two week’s of this month, comfortably outselling all other cars, regardless of fuel type By any measure, sales of the Tesla Model S in Norway got off to a sensational start. Hot on the heels of recording 184 registrations in its debut month in Norway, little more than halfway through the current month – the period ending September 16th – registrations of the Model S in Norway zoomed to a chart-topping 322 units to bulldoze Volkswagen’s conventionally powered Golf out of first place by a substantial sales margin, according to AID compiled data. Sales of the conventionally powered Golf, regardless of fuel, reached 256 units, AID compiled figures reveal. 322 In the two week selling period ending September 16th, the Tesla Model S comfortably topped Norway’s top-seller chart, accounting for 6.2 per cent of all the new cars sold in Norway during this two-week period. August electric car sales - Northern lights blazing 26 Sep 2013 Europe’s July electric car sales disappoint 03 Sep 2013 Is this the dawn of a new mobility age? 01 Aug 2013 DATA
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