And the latest move could lead to a further 1,500 jobs going among component suppliers.

The frustrated component suppliers left the business one after another.

Efforts were also made to reduce dependency on foreign component suppliers.

This means that 90% of the production steps to the complete car are performed by component suppliers.

As for hardware costs and performance, Apple's component suppliers are the market leaders.

The park of component suppliers is growing, and at the beginning of 2013 included 22 companies.

A car that nobody wanted to buy, built on a site chosen for political not commercial reasons, hundreds of miles from its component suppliers.

The decision was made to allow ailing components suppliers to use up their existing inventory.

Mayor Schnellecke himself owns a component supplier, started by his father.

As the industry has consolidated, that has put pressure on component suppliers.