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Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Miraco Motor plans to launch electric vans in Europe
Miraco Motor plans to launch electric vans in the European market, challenging established players, reported South China Morning Post. Miraco Motor CEO Xiao Ning announced plans to launch its first model in Europe next year, targeting a 10% share of the market, which is over 1.7 million such vehicles sold annually. Ning said: 'Electric commercial vehicles have an overwhelming advantage over petrol rivals because of electricity's lower cost than gasoline. Our van will compete against six to seven rivals there, and we think it's reasonable to target a 10% share.' Miraco Motor, a commercial vehicle subsidiary of GAC Group, was established in late 2023 in Guangzhou, China. The company's battery-powered vans come with a claimed range of up to 350km on a single charge and are designed with a modular approach, which splits the drivetrain parts from the cabin and cargo areas, to facilitate the production of new models. Xiao Ning also revealed ambitions to delve into the robotaxi industry with autonomous driving systems. The company's strategy includes a partnership with European electric-van developer Flynt, which will handle sales and after-sales service for Miraco's co-designed products. Unlike passenger EVs from China, which face hefty tariffs in the European Union, Miraco expects its commercial vehicles to not encounter such trade barriers, giving them a competitive edge. Ning added: 'With Flynt's ability to serve the European market, our tie-up could make our vans more competitive in the market. We want to serve as the vanguard for GAC as the group revs up its internationalisation pace.' The group aims to expand its global reach to over 100 countries and regions, leveraging its existing factories in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. GAC Group, with partnerships including Toyota and Honda, has set an export target of 500,000 vehicles by 2027, almost quadruple the volume in 2024, stated its general manager Feng Xingya. "Miraco Motor plans to launch electric vans in Europe" was originally created and published by Just Auto, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Miami Herald
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
What's inside this naughty book? Let these two women show you in Coral Gables
Besties Lea Black, of 'Real Housewives' and skin care fame, and Liz Flynt, chairwoman of Hustler and widow of Larry Flynt, the founder and publisher of Hustler magazine, dished politics, sex, friendship and famous names before an engaged audience at Flynt's recent book signing at Coral Gables' Books & Books. 'Larry passed away over four years ago and Lea was actually one of the first people to call me,' Flynt said at the start of their chat, an unwrapped copy of 'Hustler: 50 Years of Freedom' set on a table between them. 'I had just gotten home from Cedars Sinai and I just walked into my bedroom and my phone rang and I looked at it and it said 'Lea Black.' And I said I have to answer it.' Philanthropist Black, a friend of the couple for years who listed the Star Island home she shared with lawyer husband Roy Black and their son RJ for more than $34 million a few years ago, moderated a conversation with Flynt on the first Saturday in June at the bookstore. They were promoting Flynt's new coffee table tribute to the legacy her husband built with his raunchy magazine, Hustler. Florida politics The freewheeling duo delved as much into local Florida and national politics as it did into pushing 'Hustler 50.' The coffee table tome, its black cover embossed with gold lettering and shrouded in shrink wrap, includes reproductions of dozens of covers and pictorials and Flynt's crusading columns against censorship that tackled issues including gay, transgender and women's rights decades ago. Not surprisingly, Flynt and Black both are no fans of politicians pushing current censorship efforts on books and on higher education curriculum. Black, a philanthropist also famed for her social gatherings, said she aims to stage one of her fundraiser soirees to promote David Jolly, the former Tampa-area congressman who left the Republican Party seven years ago and who hopes to be the Democratic governor elect for Florida in 2026. Famous faces 'Hustler: 50 Years of Freedom' celebrates the magazine Larry Flynt launched in 1974 that made Playboy and Penthouse fans blush. Bold face names abound in its 204 glossy pages including John F. Kennedy Jr. whose mother, the late Jackie Onassis, was the subject of a 1975 pictorial when a paparazzo with a long lens and a publisher with a fat wallet, shared images of her undressed. JFK Jr. supposedly forgave Flynt for running the pictures, Liz Flynt said. Actor Woody Harrelson wrote the foreword. He portrayed Flynt in Milos Forman's 1996 film, 'The People vs. Larry Flynt.' Harrelson's closing line particularly pleased the author, she shared with the Books & Books audience. 'I am glad Liz is steering the ship now,' he wrote. 'Long may she sail.' There's even a photo inside 'Hustler 50' of President Jimmy Carter and Liz and Larry Flynt all grinning at a Beverly Hills fundraiser in 2006. 'Larry rubbed elbows with some all-American luminaries who, sadly, never sat down for Hustler interviews. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during these encounters,' the caption reads. The fly might have buzzed about Carter's Playboy interview in the November 1977 issue of rival Hugh Hefner's magazine. Supreme Court victories But Flynt's magazine won its colorful publisher lasting fame, and infamy, too, as his obscenity trials became landmark victory cases for the First Amendment. 'Larry always wanted to be remembered for expanding the parameters of free speech [by] going to the US Supreme Court and making satire protected speech,' Flynt said. 'One of Larry's concerns was censorship. Because back in the day when Hitler took over, he didn't start with the classics. He started with the pornography and went up to the classics. And Larry said, 'We can't take anything for granted.' And he always held that near and dear to his heart.' She has expanded his empire since his death at 78 in February 2021 by growing Hustler's gaming operations and retail stores, including one in Fort Lauderdale. (And, yes, keeping the magazine's print edition alive somehow despite the free, easy access to online X-rated content.) Larry Flynt's hated hypocrisy and his regret was never attending college, said his widow. But Flynt was the subject of plenty of mass media law classes at universities nationwide, including a long-ago Florida International University graduate level journalism class. (Yep, the offensive Jerry Falwell Campari mock ad parody that gave Flynt a landmark victory in 1988 for protected free speech for satire in the Hustler v. Falwell case appears in the book.) Books & Books is familiar territory for Flynt. Her late husband spoke there in August 2004 to promote his book, 'Sex, Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth,' which broadsided the Bush administration and bashed Florida's botched election in 2000. Blasted by his political enemies as little more than 'a bottom-feeder,' Flynt responded. 'True,' he chuckled, 'but look what I found when I got down there.'
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
California State students protest aid blockade in Gaza with hunger strike
Around two dozen California State University students began a hunger strike last week to protest starvation in Gaza due to Israel's aid blockade, marking the latest act of political protest on college campuses. The strikers – students from San Jose State, Sacramento State, San Francisco State and CSU Long Beach – began their fast on 5 May 'We, the students of San Francisco, Sacramento, Long Beach, and San Jose State Universities, are beginning a united hunger strike in solidarity with the two million Palestinians at risk of starvation in Gaza,' Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in a press release. They are also pushing the university system to divest from weapons manufacturers, among other stated goals. Related: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after Columbia calls in police The hunger strikes come as Israel's aid blockade in Gaza passes its second month, and is facing mounting international criticism for the millions of Palestinians pushed toward famine, as well as Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich's, recent assertion that 'Gaza will be entirely destroyed.' Max Flynt, a hunger striker and undergraduate student at San Francisco State University, cited the aid blockade as a decisive factor for organizing the strike. Flynt sets up daily on the campus quad with other organizers and strikers under a 'Hunger Strike for Gaza' canopy. Organizers hold educational workshops and strikers have their vitals taken every few hours, but do not stay overnight. 'Many of the forms of protests that were used last year, specifically the encampments, have become effectively illegal in the United States,' Flynt said. 'If we were to put up a tent today, the police would be called on us almost immediately.' Jaime Jackson, a professor at Sacramento State and member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine who studies non-violent protest, pointed out the hunger strike's symbolic ties with the realities in Gaza. 'The bombing, the killing, the massive violations of human rights have been an ongoing issue throughout,' Jackson said. 'But the recent, really big thing has been the blocking of humanitarian aid and the ongoing starvation of people in Gaza.' The crackdown on college protesters from the police to policy level, began during the Biden administration last year and has only increased under Trump. International students with vocal support for Palestinians have been especially targeted. 'We know that the Trump administration is doing this because they're scared of the student movement, they're scared of what they saw last year, and they're scared that it will come back again,' Flynt said. The divestment demands from Flynt and other protesters include the California State University system's adoption of San Francisco State University's Human Rights IPS Screening, the severance of study abroad programs with Israeli universities, and divestment from companies producing military, weapons and surveillance technology. 'We're aware of where they are sending our money, and we don't want to be used to any of these war efforts, genocide through these companies,' said Amal Dawud, and undergraduate and organizer at Sacramento State University. Two schools in the California State University system, Sacramento State University and San Francisco State University, began some form of divestment last year after meeting with student protesters. San Francisco State University confirmed the offloading of assets in Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Leonardo and Palantir, while some questions remain surrounding the mechanics of Sacramento State's divestment. Questions linger surrounding the mechanics and concrete implications of divestment. A recently killed congressional bill would have expanded penalties for boycotting and divestment. Related: Palestinian student freed after Ice arrest forms group to aid other immigrants Marcus Bode, an undergraduate and hunger striker at California State, Long Beach, cited his university's partnership with Boeing, a major supplier to the Israel Defense Forces, as something that would disappear under divestment. Bode can consume water, powder electrolytes and sports fluid under the conditions of the strike, and said that he is already feeling the physical effects of the strike, including aching joints, muscle cramps and lightheadedness. 'We don't see those increases in tuition and fees, those hikes and prices, being returned as a benefit to the student. It isn't being reinvested into our campus and into our student body,' Bode said. 'It's instead being used to fund war and genocide abroad.' Bode and his fellow hunger strikers face an uphill battle with the university system. Amy Bentley-Smith, CSU's director of media relations, said the system and its campuses will not alter investment policies but honor the right to protest. 'We will continue to uphold the values of free inquiry, peaceful protest and academic freedom,' Smith said to the Guardian in a statement.
USA Today
11-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Nebraska tight end commits to North Carolina State
Former Nebraska tight end commits to North Carolina State Former Nebraska football tight end Ian Flynt committed to the North Carolina State Wolfpack on Saturday. He made the announcement on social media Saturday afternoon. Flynt was a member of the Nebraska football 2024 recruiting class. He originally came to Nebraska as a tight end, but was moved to the defensive end position. He played in one game in the 2024 season, making his debut against UTEP. According to Rivals, Flynt was recognized as one of the top tight ends in Texas as a recruit. He will have four seasons of eligibility remaining at North Carolina State. This marks a busy spring for Huskers in terms of roster movement. It comes as the House settlement regarding roster limits hangs in the balance. Flynt will have an opportunity to make an impact in a premier conference. The Huskers' tight end room appears to be in decent shape, with Luke Lindenmeyer and Heinrich Haarberg looking to take on bigger roles in the room. Contact/Follow us @CornhuskersWire on X (formerly Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Nebraska news, notes, and opinions.
