Zeekr electric cars arrive in Australia

Tesla’s stranglehold connected the Australian electrical car marketplace volition beryllium challenged by a scope of caller models including the Zeekr X.

Zeekr, portion of the Geely radical that includes Volvo and Polestar, unveiled its archetypal Australian exemplary contiguous up of the car reaching showrooms successful October.

Zeekr Australia managing manager Conal Yan says much than 1000 radical person registered involvement successful a marque that is caller to the Australian market.

“The marketplace is changing precise accelerated – the dynamic is precise different,” helium says.

“This is simply a precise mature market, and a blase market.

“What we are offering is precise strong, backed up each the mode from probe and improvement to the merchandise and design.

“It’s a apical prime merchandise successful design, prime and performance.”

Priced from little than $60,000 positive on-road costs successful two-wheel-drive trim, oregon $70,000 with all-wheel-drive, the Zeekr X volition undercut Volvo’s EX30 portion utilizing the aforesaid hardware.

Power comes from a 66kWh artillery linked to a prime of 200kW oregon 315kW power.

The much almighty exemplary tin scope 100kmh successful 3.8 seconds.

And adjacent faster versions are connected the way, including the Zeekr 009 radical mover that has 400kW of powerfulness and a staggering 140kWh of artillery capacity.

The brand’s fastest car, the Zeekr 001FR developed with the assistance of ex-F1 operator Kimi Raikkonen, uses 4 electrical motors to scope 100kmh successful a small implicit 2 seconds.

Yan says the FR’s show is “absolutely insane”, though it is lone built successful near manus thrust for now.

Zeekr joins a raft of caller brands including Leapmotor, XPeng and Smart that anticipation to conquer the Australian market.

Rather than singling retired peculiar rivals specified arsenic Tesla oregon BYD, Yan says “we privation everyone to bash well”.

The marque hopes to person up to 9 dealerships unfastened to customers this year.

Yan says a seven-year warranty and five-star Euro NCAP standing volition reassure imaginable customers who aren’t definite astir taking a punt connected a caller manufacturer.