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The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.

Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles.

A tax benefit boosted quarterly earnings, but that masked a decline in earnings from carmaking caused by intensifying competition.