April 1 (Reuters) – Tesla’s new car registrations in Portugal fell 1.7% in March from a year ago to 1,189 units, while overall fully-electric car sales rose 24% to 6,704, the country’s automobile industry association ACAP said on Wednesday.

In the January-March period, Tesla sales rose 27.1% to 2,726 vehicles, in line with the increase in all electric car sales, it said.

(Reporting by Marta Serafinko in Gdansk, editing by Andrei Khalip)