As you likely know, the American automobile company Tesla makes some of the most desirable

and expensive electric cars in the world.

The company is currently valued at roughly $31 billion.

Compare that to the $55 billion market cap of the Ford Motor Company.

Tesla, however, last year sold fewer than 25,000 cars, while Ford sells more than 6 million

vehicles a year, roughly 240 vehicles for every single Tesla.

Tesla currently has just one vehicle in production, the Model S Luxury sedan.

In the US, the starting price is a bit more than $70,000.

Americans buy more Model S's than anyone, which isn't very surprising, but which country

do you think has routinely been coming in second?

From WNYC, this is Freakonomics Radio, the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.

Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.

Okay, here's the question of the day.

Tesla Motors opened its first stores in California in 2008.

Today, the US is still the largest market for this tiny beloved automaker.

China is poised to become the second largest.

It may already be, and we just don't know it yet, but until the China takeover, what country

do you think ranked number two on the list of Tesla devotees?

Oh, sorry, you don't speak Norwegian, do you?

But yes, Tesla's second biggest market in the world, at least until recently, was tiny

Norway, population 5.9 million.

This is planet Earth, and this is Norway.

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