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Not really. Last month was a special case: Several months of hype and preorders hit the statistics all at once when Tesla started delivery.

Here's a page where you can get sales numbers per month and for the year to date:

http://ofvas.no/bilsalget/bilsalget_2013/bilsalget_i_septemb...

According to these numbers, Tesla did 98 cars in Norway in october, and 906 year to date - the vast majority (616) in september alone.

Because Tesla is supply constrained. There is simply not enough production capacity.

Lets not fool ourselves, they are price constrained for a larger number of people. Once the rich blow through their gotta have it phase then we will see if the demand is there. Considering the X is going to cost even more I really don't care much for Tesla right now, get back to me when they compete against the Leaf

From what I've read, the price of an electric car is a less of a concern in Norway, due to very heavy subsidies and high petrol taxes.