Zeekr delivered 36,981 vehicles in August, a fifth consecutive monthly record for Geely’s premium brand and a rise of 109.8% on the same month last year.
Deliveries were 3.2% above July’s 35,837, which had itself been 1.9% above June’s 35,169. August was the seventh consecutive month of both year-on-year and month-on-month growth.
Through eight months the brand has delivered 251,188 vehicles, up 100.40%. That is already 12.1% more than it delivered in the whole of 2025, when the figure was 224,133 and growth was 0.90%.
The Annual Target
Geely Auto set a 2026 group target of 3.45 million vehicles in January, of which 2.75 million for the Geely brand, 400,000 for Lynk & Co and 300,000 for Zeekr.
Zeekr has completed 83.7% of its share with a third of the year left. A straight-line pace would have put it at 200,000 through August, so it is roughly 51,000 vehicles ahead.
Held at August’s level, the brand would pass 300,000 during October and finish the year near 399,000, about a third above target.
At group level, Geely reported first-half sales of 1,422,958, or 41.2% of the 3.45 million, and has since raised its 2026 export target to 920,000 vehicles from 640,000.
Hybrids Are Doing the Work
Zeekr began as an all-electric brand and is still described as one, but its record run is being led by models that are not battery-electric.
The 9X and the 8X are extended-range hybrids, with a petrol engine acting primarily as a generator. Zeekr said the two led July’s record month, with higher-priced variants outperforming.
The 8X went on sale on April 17 and, in May, its first full month of deliveries, the company said it had become the best-selling hybrid SUV in the 300,000-to-500,000-yuan transaction price band.
In May the 9 and 8 series together accounted for nearly half of Zeekr’s deliveries and pushed average transaction price past 360,000 yuan, a rise of 52.4% year on year.
The company says one in every three luxury vehicles sold in China above 500,000 yuan is now a 9X, and attributes the mix shift to its 900-volt architecture and the Haohan digital chassis carried across newer models.
Rising volume alongside a rising average price is unusual in a market where the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers put industry profit margins at 1.5% through May.
The immediate driver of the current run is narrower still. Zeekr launched a five-seat version of the 9X on July 28 with a limited-time starting price of 451,900 yuan, a variant strategy that mirrors Nio’s with the five-seat ES8 in the same month.
It was launched into a decline. The 9X delivered 10,191 units in March, 8,441 in May and 6,382 in June, a fall of 24.4% in that final month, closing the first half at 46,869.
As the five-seat variant arrived in the last days of July, August was the first real test of it.
Whether the 9X itself recovered will not be visible until the China Passenger Car Association publishes its model split next week.
What the Models Have Actually Done
The 7X remains the volume pillar. It delivered 62,865 units from January to July, or 29.35% of brand volume, and Zeekr said global orders for the model passed 200,000 on August 24, with the milestone order placed in Mexico.
Those are orders rather than handovers, and the two are far apart. Cumulative 7X deliveries were reported at more than 160,000 as recently as June.
Zeekr also said cumulative global deliveries of its shooting-brake models had exceeded 400,000. That is the family figure covering the 001 and the 007 GT together, which stood at nearly 380,000 in June, not a total for the 001 alone.
The China lineup now runs to nine nameplates: the 001 shooting brake, the 007 sedan and 007 GT wagon, the X, the 7X, the 009 and Mix people movers, and the 8X and 9X hybrids.
A model-level split is not part of the monthly release. The China Passenger Car Association is expected to publish its model-by-model figures next week.
Overseas
Zeekr is present in more than 50 countries and regions, and said exports of the 9X began during August, with the 009 Grand to follow.
Zeekr Europe operates across 16 markets and aims to reach 24, having entered Spain and Portugal through Salvador Caetano with France and the United Kingdom in preparation.
Europe will not contribute to this year’s volume in any material way.
Zeekr unveiled the 9X for the region in Amsterdam on July 29, its first extended-range model on the continent, with deliveries scheduled to begin in late December.
Five Zeekr models have reached Europe including the 001, 009, 7X, 007 GT and X.
Zeekr listed in New York in May 2024, completed its merger with Geely in December 2025 and delisted, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Geely Auto.
It also controls Lynk & Co, forming the Zeekr Group inside the One Geely structure.
