Oct 02, 2013 12:10 PM EDT
Tesla Model S Was The Top Selling Car in Norway in September

For the month of September, the Tesla Model S was not only the top selling electric vehicle, but the top selling car overall.

Tesla Motors sold 616 Tesla Model S vehicles in Norway last month, giving the automaker a 5.1 percent share of total vehicles sales of approximately 12, 168 units sold, according to Wall Street Journal.

The California startup was 20th of 40 different brands in total sales, though all of the automakers sales came from one model.

Plug-in electric vehicles represented 8.6 percent of the market overall, at 1,944 sales.

The Nissan Leaf was the second highest-selling vehicle in Norway last month, and both the Leaf and Model S represented 85 percent of all plug-in sales last month.

The first Model S sent outside of the U.S. was sold in Norway according to Tesla.

This year has been good to Tesla so far, and recently Hertz added the Model S to its lineup of U.S. Dream Cars.

Tesla has had such an impact in the auto world that GM CEO Dan Akerson said Cadillac is prepared to take on the electric car maker.

Tesla doesn't plan to take things easy over the next year however, as the automaker hopes to have 98 percent of the U.S. covered with Supercharger stations by 2015, and will introduce an auto-pilot vehicle by 2016.

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