FRANKFURT – German automaker Volkswagen said Friday it made a better than expected profit of 8.8 billion euros ($10.7 billion) after tax in 2020 despite the disruption from the pandemic.
The company said the rapid recovery of China, its largest single market, helped the bottom line, as did resilient demand for luxury autos despite the pandemic.
The Wolfsburg-based carmaker said that it had taken important strategic steps to accelerate its push into software and digital technologies and services.
It tripled its sales of electric vehicles to 422,000 ahead of stricter European Union limits on emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.