Fortune Profiles QNX Software Systems

In the latest issue of Fortune magazine, Kurt Wagner takes a look at the history of QNX and specifically highlights our leadership in the automotive industry. In the article, Kurt mentions the automotive companies we are working with — including Audi, Toyota, BMW, Porsche, Honda and more — and also provides a look at the technology concept car we unveiled at CES 2013, based on a Bentley Continental GTC.

To quote Kurt, “…the $191,000 luxury vehicle quickly became a must-see attraction, not for its curvaceous sheet metal but for its futuristic dashboard inside, featuring a massive 17-inch touchscreen, 3-D maps, even videoconferencing.”

You can read the full article in the April 8 issue of Fortune or on the web here (requires a subscription). Want to see more of this gorgeous technology concept car? Go behind the scenes and take a full tour.

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Germany February 2013

Tall and narrow, there's nothing like the Citröen C-Zero...Apart from his cousins  iOn and I-Miev

An out-of-this-world performance of the Citroën C-Zero in February allowed the german EV market to disguise the sales drought that has been suffering in the last months, in fact the 253 units sold by Citröen (Probably a fleet deal, does anyone know what happened here?), not only established a record sales month for this model but it also allowed it to jump from fifth to number one in the YTD sales, and with enough distance to keep it there for a few months as well.

Coming down in the real ranking, we see the Opel Ampera fighting the #2 spot with the Twizy, with the latter probably winning it in the future as weather gets warmer and people forget that the tiny EV wasn't really made for cold climates...

Pl	Germany	Feb	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Citröen C-Zero	253	259	56	4
2	Opel Ampera	26	70	15	2
3	Renault Twizy	29	66	14	1
4	Nissan Leaf	5	29	6	5
5	Peugeot iOn	9	18	4	8
6	Renault Fluence ZE	6	10	2	6
7	Mitsubishi I-Miev	4	9	2	9
	TOTAL	332	461	100

Source: kba.de

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