| Developers: | Geely International Corporation |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | March 2021 |
| Branches: | Transport |
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2023: Sales in Russia
At the end of 2023, the manufacturer of premium electric vehicles Zeekr entered the Russian market. Cars have become available from one of the largest car dealers in the Russian Federation - Avtodom.
Three models have become available to Russian buyers: Zeekr X, Zeekr 001 and Zeekr 009. Their cost starts from 6 million rubles.
The Zeekr X crossover has rear and full drives with an electric motor of 272 and 428 horsepower, respectively, with a range of 560 km. The Zeekr 001 model is presented in three versions, including FR - four motors, one per wheel. The flagship car of the brand in Russia was the Zeekr 009 minivan. It is equipped exclusively with a all-wheel drive power plant with a capacity of 544 hp. Acceleration to the first hundred takes 4.5 s.
The Zeekr brand is a premium brand of Geely. Under the Zeekr brand, exclusively electric vehicles are produced.
According to the Avtostat agency, in January-November 2023, more than 12 thousand electric vehicles were sold in Russia, of which 2752 fell on the Zeekr brand. In November 2023 alone, 650 cars of this brand were sold, of which 463 fell on one model - liftback 001. Most of the cars arrived in the Russian Federation according to the parallel import scheme.
According to the executive director of Avtostat Sergei Udalov, in fact Zeekr and similar Chinese electric cars on the market have replaced the gasoline cars of European premium brands that have left this price segment. Now such "Chinese" are bought by those who would have bought BMW earlier, the expert believes.[1]
2021
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Announcement of the Zeekr 001 electric car
At the end of March 2021, Geely announced the first production model of its new smart electric car under the Zeekr brand - it was named "Zeekr 001." The official presentation of the new model and brand will take place on April 15, 2021 at the Hangzhouwan plant.
The first Zeekr model is a full-size sports university with the index 001, which is a production version of the Zero prototype, which was presented at the Auto China 2020 exhibition in September 2020 under the joint brand Geely and Volvo Cars - Lynk & Co. They decided to change the brand, but the car remained almost the same, with the exception of some simplifications that are inevitable when moving to the stage of mass production.
Zeekr 001 was created on the platform of SEA (Sustainable Experience Architecture), designed specifically for electric vehicles and not providing for the use of ICE.
The overall length of Zeekr 001 is 4850 mm, width - 1980 mm, height - 1530 mm, wheelbase - 2999 mm. Such a large distance between the axes made it possible to maximize the amount of useful space in the cabin.
The all-electric model will have two modes of driving depending on the number of electric motors. The four-wheel drive car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 4 seconds, and a 110 kWh battery will allow the car to travel about 700 km.
Other features of the Zeekr 001 include intuitive frameless doors, fully automatic air suspension, W-HUD and aurora-like lighting lamps.
The Zeekr 001 received a fully digital cockpit with an 8.8-inch instrument scale, and a 15.4-inch tablet is responsible for secondary functions and multimedia. Operational information is projected directly onto the glass in front of the driver's eyes, the number of physical buttons is minimized.[2]
Geely electric car brand launch
In late March 2021, Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings is launching a new premium electric vehicle brand to capture market share in luxury electric vehicles, which are so far dominated by Tesla and Chinese companies.
A new brand of cars called Zeekr will be promoted by Zhejiang's parent company Geely Holding Group. The first Zeekr vehicles are expected to be delivered to customers in the third quarter of 2021. However, in the luxury electric car market, Zeekr will have to face not only Tesla, but also other Chinese startups Li Auto and NIO. While Geely remains the leading Chinese car brand in terms of units sold in 2020, the company's net profit fell 32%.
Geely is known to expect to sell Zeekr electric cars directly, excluding dealers from the chain. Demonstration halls will be opened in large cities of China, the pricing policy will be uniform for all regions of the country. In addition, the company intends to sell accessories and clothing under a new brand, and will also enable the owners of its electric cars to become one of the shareholders of Lingling Technologies, which will be responsible for promoting the brand.
The Zeekr brand will be manufactured by Geely Holding using Sustainable Experience Architecture, an open-source electric vehicle technology. Geely plans to roll out this architecture to nine of its automotive brands, as well as sell it to other manufacturers.
SEA's platform is just part of Geely's plans to position itself as a leading manufacturer of electric vehicles and technology. In February 2021, Geely and Volvo Cars announced the creation of a separate company that will develop next-generation hardware and software for its electric vehicles. The two companies will also share batteries and electric motors as part of a new collaboration.[3]
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