Tesla recorded a decline in sales in five European countries in January. Tesla sales in Great Britain fell by almost twelve percent, although the monthly approvals of electric cars in Europe’s largest market for battery -electric vehicles rose to a record value, as can be seen from data from the New Automotive Research Organization. In France, Tesla’s sales in the report month collapsed by 63 percent, 44 percent or 38 percent in Sweden and Norway and 42 percent in the Netherlands.