Tesla recorded its highest daily vehicle sales in Norway of the second quarter so far on Wednesday.
A total of 270 EVs were sold, with 260 of them having been Model Ys — according to data shared by Tesla vehicle registration tracker and X user ‘piloly’ and tracking platform EU-EVs.
The pace at which the company has reached 200 daily units this quarter has been quicker than in both the first quarter of 2026 and the same period a year ago.
In each of those periods, 200-unit days only began picking up in the final days of the second month of the quarter.
In the first quarter, the single-day high was reached between early and mid-March, when registrations climbed above 400 units.
Between April and June 2025, however, daily figures only crossed the 200-unit mark by the end of May and the 400-unit mark in late June.
Tesla‘s all-time daily high in Norway came late last year, with 694 units sold on a single day in late November — surpassing the previous record of 645 set in March 2023.
As of Wednesday, Tesla had registered between 1,299 and 1,564 vehicles in Norway over the first 20 days of the month, considering data from both EU-EVs and Elbilstatistikk.
The company’s share of the Norwegian market for May has climbed above 16%.
Factoring in April, however, the quarter-to-date share drops to around 8% — after registrations fell sharply in the first month of the quarter to just 379 vehicles.
Q1 Registrations
The Elon Musk-led company remained the best-selling brand in Norway during the first quarter of 2026.
Tesla has accounted for a share of 34.8% of the whole market, in a country where EVs have surpassed 98% of all new vehicle sales.
Tesla‘s highest monthly market share in Norway was 40.8% in March 2023.
Official registration data from OFV shows that a total of 6,150 Teslas were sold in Norway in March.
The figures represented a fivefold increase from February and nearly triple that of a year ago.
The strong numbers — which are just below the two-year monthly high of last November — came amid Tesla‘s typical end-of-quarter push to boost deliveries.
Sales recovered from a weaker January, which was widely anticipated as Norway removed EV incentives — after the powertrain represented 95% of all new car sales in 2025.
Despite the weaker first month, however, quarterly deliveries nearly doubled year over year — to 7,443 vehicles from 3,817.
Tesla set a full-year sales record with 34,285 vehicles sold in 2025.
The company captured 19.1% of the market and surpassed Volkswagen‘s previous record of 26,575 vehicles from 2016.
Lineup and Competitors
In March, the Tesla Model Y and Model 3 were the best-selling models in Norway.
The SUV accounted for 4,288 vehicles, while the sedan represented 1,860 units.
The third and fourth best-selling models in the Norwegian market, the Volvo EX40 and the Toyota bZ4X, accounted for less than half of Model 3 sales — at 901 and 833 vehicles, respectively.
Tesla introduced the refreshed Model Y in Europe a year ago.
In October, it launched a more affordable, Standard version — since then renamed to Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) — priced from NOK 389,990 ($42,200).
Earlier this month, the company increased prices by NOK 10,000 before VAT on all Model Y trims — as part of a European-wide price hike that has since been extended to the US.
The vehicle is now priced from NOK 399,990 ($43,300) for the RWD trim.
The Model 3 Standard also debuted in European markets late last year, reducing the sedan’s entry-level price to NOK 299,990 ($32,500).
The company began registering China-manufactured Model Ys for the quarter on February 24.
Norway is not a European Union member, therefore it does not apply the bloc’s tariffs on Chinese EV imports, imposed in October 2024.
This allows Tesla to source vehicles from both its European factory in Germany — where the company produces the best-selling Model Y — and from Giga Shanghai, where both the Model 3 and Model Y are manufactured.
FSD Approval in Europe
Tesla‘s recovery in Norway is unfolding alongside regulatory advances for its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software across Europe.
The Dutch vehicle authority RDW granted provisional type-approval for FSD (Supervised) on April 10 under UN Regulation 171, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system.
Tesla began pushing the software to customer vehicles via update 2026.3.6 less than 24 hours later.
The rollout is limited to vehicles equipped with Tesla‘s Hardware 4 (AI4) computer.
Lithuania became the second European country to approve the system, with the country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and Transport Safety Administration recognising the Dutch RDW’s temporary EU-type approval this month.
At the EU level, the Dutch authority presented its Article 39 file for Tesla‘s FSD (Supervised) during the 117th meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) on May 5.
The session was extended from an initial 20-minute morning slot to a dedicated one-hour afternoon session, but no vote was held.
The earliest realistic window for a formal qualified-majority vote is the next TCMV session on June 30.
A vote requires at least 15 of the 27 member states representing 65% of the bloc’s population.
Several countries have signalled caution.
France’s Centre National de Réception des Véhicules has said it will not authorise FSD until the European Commission’s Article 39 examination concludes, while Italy’s Transport Ministry has signalled it will await EU-level discussions before deciding.
Sweden’s Transport Agency has questioned the system’s allowance for exceeding posted speed limits.
In Belgium, the Flemish administration has cleared an initial regulatory screening and moved FSD to a federal test stage.
Norway, an EEA member, does not hold voting rights in the TCMV process but has indicated openness to recognising the Dutch decision.
The Norwegian administration plans to ask specific questions about how typical Nordic driving conditions have been taken into account, incident reporting requirements, and safeguards against confusion between driver-assistance and autonomous driving systems.
Tesla ended one-time FSD purchases across most European markets on May 21, shifting to a subscription-only model.
FSD (Supervised) is currently available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the Netherlands, and Lithuania.
