- Zeekr has added a 3rd mannequin to its European lineup, the 7X electrical SUV.
- The 7X is about the identical dimension as a Honda Prologue but it surely’s constructed on a extra superior 800-volt platform.
- In Europe, it has a beginning worth of underneath €53,000 ($55,650), and if you happen to order one now, it is going to be delivered in the summertime of 2025.
Zeekr was based in China in, 2021 geared toward each native rival Nio and EV juggernaut Tesla. It was conceived as a worldwide model, and it’s already current outdoors China, together with in Europe. Now, it is opened European order books for its third, and largest, mannequin, the Zeekr 7X.
The 7X is constructed on the identical Geely SEA 800-volt platform as many different of the group’s fashions, but it surely’s most related in dimension and footprint to the Good #5. That’s not a coincidence as a result of it’s constructed on the identical PMA2+ variation of the platform because the Good. For American context, it is concerning the dimension of a Honda Prologue. There’s additionally a sedan equal to the 7X, the 007, but it surely’s unavailable outdoors China but.
Photograph by: Zeekr
Photograph by: Zeekr
Deliveries of the 7X are anticipated to start across the center of 2025. There are 4 out there paint choices and optionally available 20-inch wheels that change the usual 19s. All automobiles get a normal Nappa leather-based inside and a big 16-inch infotainment display. The latter will be complemented by a 36.2-inch augmented actuality head-up show.
The Zeekr 7X will be ordered in Europe with both a 75-kilowatt-hour LFP battery pack, which supplies the car a claimed WLTP vary of 298 miles (480 kilometers), or a 100-kWh NMC pack that extends the vary to 382 miles (615 km). Word that WLTP figures are typically extra optimistic than U.S. EPA numbers. The 7X comes as commonplace with a single everlasting magnet synchronous motor delivering 416 horsepower to the rear wheels, permitting it to speed up from 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 6 seconds.
The optionally available dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup bumps energy to 637 hp, dropping the benchmark dash time to three.8 seconds. All variants have the identical high velocity of 130 mph (210 km/h), and the identical 19 cubic ft (539 liters) of trunk house.
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Pricing in Europe for the usual mannequin begins at €52,990 ($55,630 at at the moment’s alternate charges) and goes as much as €55,990 ($58,800) if you happen to spec the bigger battery. The Efficiency AWD model is the most costly, beginning at €62,990 ($66,150), and if you happen to tick the entire choices containers it’s going to value round €70,000 ($73,500). It’s significantly cheaper than its Chinese language compatriot, the Nio EL7, which is just marginally bigger, and has a beginning worth in Germany of round €74,000 ($77,700).
The opposite two Zeekr fashions out there in Europe are the €59,940 ($62,950) 001 fastback and the €42,490 ($44,600) X. The latter is Zeekr’s model of the Volvo EX30, sharing its underpinnings, powertrain and battery. Zeekr just lately took management of Lynk & Co—one other Geely model—since there was some overlap between the 2.
We just lately drove a Zeekr 7X in China and we’ll have a evaluate of it right here shortly. Spoiler alert: We actually preferred it.
