Zeekr, the brand new premium electrical automobile begin-up model underneath Geely, has introduced that it sold 2,012 units of the 001 in its full month of production. This won’t seem to be a lot of an achievement, however keep in mind, the 001 was solely unveiled earlier in April, and all allocations for China have been snapped up by mid-June.
Production of the absolutely electrical luxurious capturing brake takes place on the Zeekr Intelligent Factory in Ningbo (China), which Geely claims is among the many most superior automobile manufacturing services in the world. Zeekr is in the midst of ramping up production to fulfill the unprecedented native demand.
The automaker has plans to develop operations globally, however that may solely happen in 2023. It is at the moment centered on fulfilling demand from the China market, and that features putting in hundreds of charging factors throughout 211 cities, in addition to devoted Zeekr charging stations to serve 9 main cities.
Zeekr CEO Andy An-Conghui stated: “We revealed Zeekr to the world in April this year and in just eight months, we have developed the 001, started production at our state-of-the-art Intelligent Factory in Ningbo and delivered over 2,000 of our luxury shooting brake coupes. This was an extremely ambitious challenge for Zeekr and I am truly proud of this start-up’s progress in such record time.”
The automobile itself is sort of an enormous one, measuring practically 5 metres in size. It’s Zeekr’s flagship mannequin and sits on Geely’s new Sustainable Electric Architecture (SEA), particularly the bigger SEA1 by-product meant for D- to F-section automobiles.
Buyers can select from two powertrain configurations, each utilising the identical 200 kW electrical motor creating 272 PS and 384 Nm of torque. The rear-wheel-drive single-motor model will get from zero to 100 km/h in 6.9 seconds, whereas the twin-motor all-wheel-drive mannequin makes use of its 400 kW (544 PS) and 768 Nm to dispatch the century dash in simply 3.8 seconds. Zeekr claims the AWD automobile maxes out at over 200 km/h, and would brake from 100 km/h to standstill in 34.5 metres.
Two battery choices can be found – 86 and 100 kWh. The former is just obtainable on the AWD mannequin and delivers a spread of 526 km on the NEDC cycle. The bigger pack, then again, supplies a spread of 606 km with AWD and a powerful 712 km in RWD type.
In phrases of charging, the 001 solely accepts as much as 7 kW of AC energy for residence charging, though it additionally helps DC quick charging at a charge of as much as 360 kW because of a 400-volt electrical structure. At the utmost charge, a cost time of 5 minutes presents roughly 120 km of vary.
