Will September's Tesla sizzle fizzle? Never before in European history have so many electric cars been registered in a single month

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Is this the first sign of a lasting breakthrough or a mere transient blip? AID investigates. Tesla's newly arrived Model S made a big splash in a small pool, and no more so than in Norway where it alone accounted for six-in-ten of September's bumper electric car registrations. The resulting 79.1 per cent rise in Norway's September electric car sales to 1,044 units has almost single-handedly propped-up West Europe's overall electric car market. As a consequence, in September Norway was crowned Europe's way and ahead biggest electric car market. Not only did it outsell Germany and the UK, but also France, where the electric car industry's total September haul reached just 644 units.