Armed with new contracts from Ford and General Motors that kick in over the next 12 months, the company will double its car component exports.

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The intent system will be offered as a component of the QNX CAR application platform in 2013.

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The company sells the Fluence but owns the battery, the most expensive component of an electric car and charges drivers for the miles they drive.

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Imagine a car manufacturer that decided to buy a key engine component for its cars rather than make them.

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And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.

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The requirements for that component change every year, and if you can't get one that fits, the car won't run.

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