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In November last year, the Chinese state-owned carmaker GAC announced it was increasing its investment in electric commercial vehicles aiming to reach 30 billion yuan ($4.1 billion) in revenue by 2030.
At the event, the 28-year old Guangzhou Automobile Group launched the world’s first heavy-duty electric truck, T9, while the carmaker’s-incubated Qiji Auto introduced its first mass-application intelligent driving platform, the Qiji L Platform, on which the new Robobus L60 is based.
However, that’s not all.
Miraco Motor x Flynt
The light commercial vehicle (LCV) maker Miraco Motor, a brand backed by GAC and founded by the carmaker’s veteran Xiao Ning, signed an agreement last November with a new company named Flynt as its exclusive partner in Europe.
Over the past 12 months, both publicly listed companies Arrival and Canoo, filed for bankrucpty after failing to attract consumers and secure sufficient funding to mass-produce their light commercial vehicles.
According to both parties, the Guangzhou-based Miraco Motor will develop and manufacture the vehicles. Flynt will focus on the European launch of the “newly developed, purpose-built, fully electric platform” including brand building, independent distribution, sales and aftersales network.
Flynt’s Debut Model
The high-end variant of the LCV will offer a range of “up to 500 km” with an energy consumption rate of 20 kWh per 100 km. The range for the other two variants was not disclosed by the brand.
The entry-level and mid-range variants will be equipped with advanced Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery packs, while the top-tier model will feature a 100 kWh Nickel Cobalt Manganese (NCM) battery pack.
It will support 22 kW AC and 220 kW DC fast charging, as well as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) functionality to provide greater operational flexibility.
The first prototypes will arrive in Europe in the first half of the year while customer deliveries are planned to begin within a year, in the first half of 2026.
“Our fully electric platform is not a mere adaptation of traditional concepts,” Dr. Daniel Kirchert, founder and CEO of Flynt, said in a statement before detailing how the company will achieve a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than its competitors.
“By uniting the strengths of European and Chinese innovation and leveraging the world’s most advanced Chinese battery and electric vehicle supply chain, we are setting new benchmarks in the LCV segment with solutions designed to lower total cost of ownership, boost operational efficiency, and drastically cut emissions,” Dr. Kirchert added.
Flynt’s debut model will offer 8.7 to 16.5 cubic meters of cargo space with the brand claiming it was designed to be 28% more space efficient than core competitors.
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