Articles tagged "Geely"

This week has been a proper whirlwind of battery announcements - and the message has never been clearer: you can forget the half-hour charging sessions. We used to tell ourselves that 30 minutes was a reasonable trade-off for zero emissions. It was...

Stopping to charge an electric car used to mean a bit of a lifestyle adjustment. You would pull into an empty service station, fight with a cable thick as an anaconda, pray the card reader works, and then pace around for forty-five minutes with the...

The Chinese EV market is relentless, chaotic, and can be very tricky to keep track of. A brand debuts on a Monday with world-changing promises, drops two compact crossovers on Wednesday, and rolls out an entirely new sub-brand by Friday morning. But...

The quick petrol station stop has always been the elusive holy grail for EV owners. We all know the ritual: pull up to the pump, squeeze the trigger for two minutes, grab some snacks, and head back onto the open road. But electric vehicles, for all...

While Geely is building its first in-house solid-state battery pack plant, Geely Holding is working on its next-generation solid-state battery for EVs, which is supposed to offer a whopping 500 Wh/kg energy density. If Geely indeed achieves that...

When Zhejiang Geely scooped up Volvo from Ford's bargain basement back in 2010, the automotive establishment assumed the Chinese industrial giant would simply siphon off Swedish safety patents and leave Gothenburg to build sensible estate cars....

The newest chapter in the 'European and American automakers just giving up and inviting the Chinese to take over' saga has just been written. Ford will produce Geely vehicles at its plant in Valencia, Spain, alongside the Kuga and "a new generation...

The auto industry's obsession with stuffing electric cars with heavy battery packs to fix range anxiety sounds a bit like a lazy engineering shortcut. It seems automakers believe that making an EV heavier is the only way for it to go farther - an...

EV manufacturers used to focus almost entirely on maximum driving range, wanting to prove that electric cars could travel long distances on a single charge. Today, the battery landscape is shifting dramatically. Car manufacturers are now fighting...

Geely has officially revealed its latest electric sports sedan, the Geely Galaxy TT. The vehicle immediately drew attention because its exterior styling looks quite similar to the Xiaomi SU7. The new electric fastback has been designed for the...

Geely's sub-brand Galaxy introduced its new ultra-affordable Starship 7 EV. The official pricing, depending on the variant, is between CNY 109,800 ($16,200) and CNY 129,800 ($19,150), but if you add in the CNY 6,000 trade-in subsidy and the CNY...

The ultra-competitive EV landscape in China demands non-stop improvement from auto manufacturers. To keep up with changing demand, Geely launched a refreshed version of its popular compact hatchback, the Geely Geome Xingyuan. International markets...

Ford has a huge factory in Valencia, Spain, but it has a problem. The site is underutilized and does not produce enough vehicles to stay profitable. To fix this, Ford is in very advanced talks with Geely, the large Chinese company that owns Volvo....

Geely has unveiled its new i-HEV hybrid system, which the company claims has a 48.41% maximum thermal efficiency on its engine. This, according to Geely, is one of the highest such numbers in mass production today. The new i-HEV system improves...

Established in 2016, Lynk & Co is a rapidly rising name within the Geely group. The brand draws on Volvo’s safety heritage while integrating Geely’s technology expertise, delivering great cars at attractive prices. That combo is helping it steadily...

Volvo and Geely announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to establish a commercial partnership for Lynk & Co distribution in Europe. Volvo will assume responsibility for Lynk & Co's commercial operations and brand...

The biggest names in the industry are finding new ways to keep up with the fast-changing EV world. Mercedes-Benz has been building luxury vehicles for over 130 years. But now, it is turning to China to help design its next generation of EVs, instead...

A major shift is happening in the EV world, according to recent reports. The rumors were swirling around Xiaomi and Ford's potential partnership, but Reuters claims that the American automaker is, in fact, in deep talks with the Chinese automotive...

We all have heard promises about a "super battery" that would change electric cars forever. This technology is called the solid-state battery, and it promises to make EVs safer, charge faster, and drive much farther on a single charge. But for a...

Those of you who follow the automotive industry up close know that it's nearly impossible to miss Geely, a Chinese conglomerate that owns many car brands, some of which specialize in EV production. Volvo, Polestar, Smart, Lotus, Zeekr and Lynk & Co...