The electric-car maker’s performance reflected increasing sales and production around the world.
Daimler reported unexpectedly strong profits, underlining a rebound by traditional carmakers despite the pandemic.
The company benefited from a jump in sales of electric cars in China and Europe, but its fourth quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.
Tesla’s transformation from a company that lost large sums of money every year has been made possible in large part by rising sales in China and Europe.
Carmakers say new models should also help lift the industry in 2021, after a 15 percent decline in its slowest year since it recovered from the Great Recession.