An Elon Musk Tweet ‘Thrilled’ an Island Desperate for Teslas

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First, he persuaded Elon Musk to expand into Iceland. Now, he’s predicting an exponential rise in sales of electric cars in a country that gets its energy from volcanoes.

“The supply of electric cars is not satisfying demand at the moment,” Johann Olafsson, who heads Iceland’s Electric Vehicle Association, said in an interview in Reykjavik. If it did catch up with demand, sales would probably “more than double each year for the next few years,” he said.