Zeekr delivered 35,837 vehicles in July, a 111% increase from a year earlier and a fourth consecutive monthly record for the premium brand owned by the Chinese giant Geely Holding Group.
The figure rose 1.9% from June’s 35,169 units, keeping Zeekr above 35,000 deliveries for a second straight month.
July also marked a sixth consecutive month of both year-over-year and month-over-month growth, a run no other brand in China’s premium electric segment currently matches.
Deliveries for the first seven months of 2026 reach 214,207 units, and cumulative deliveries since the brand began handovers in October 2021 stand at 857,096.
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, which will separate the 9X, the 8X, the 7X, the 001 line and the 009.
Price Rising Alongside Volume
The story of Zeekr‘s 2026 has been price as much as volume, with July continuing the pattern.
The company said the 9X and 8X super-hybrid models led the month, with higher-priced variants outperforming, and that its shooting brake line and the 7X each cleared 10,000 in global deliveries.
Flagship models accounted for close to half of sales through the first half, lifting the average transaction price past 360,000 yuan in May, a 52.4% year-over-year increase.
The combination, rising volume with a rising average price, in a market where the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers put industry profit margins at 1.5% through May.
The company attributes the mix shift to its full-stack 900-volt architecture and the Haohan AI digital chassis carried across the newer models.
The Flagship Line Has Been Uneven
The premium mix has not moved in a straight line.
The 9X delivered 6,382 units in June, down 24.4% from May’s 8,441 and well below the 10,191-unit peak the model reached in March, closing the half at 46,869 units and cumulative volume approaching 70,000.
Zeekr responded inside July. The five-seat version of the 9X launched in China on July 28, widening the flagship’s addressable segment in the same way rivals have split three-row nameplates into five-seat variants.
Because the launch landed in the final days of the month, July captures almost none of its volume, which makes August the first real test.
Target Progress
Geely does not publish a standalone annual delivery target for the Zeekr brand in its results, and industry tracking has put the 2026 goal at several different levels.
Against the roughly 350,000-unit figure implied by Zeekr having cleared half its annual goal at the six-month mark, the 214,207 units delivered through July represent 61.2% completion.
A 300,000-unit target would put completion at 71.4%, and a 500,000-unit target at 42.8%.
Under any of those readings Zeekr sits ahead of every other Chinese brand tracked at the half-year mark, when most closed the first six months with less than 40% of their annual goals completed.
At group level, Geely is targeting 3.45 million vehicles in 2026, of which 2.22 million new-energy, and reported first-half sales of 1.42 million, or 41.2% of that target.
Europe Is the Next Leg
Zeekr unveiled the 9X for Europe in Amsterdam on July 29, the brand’s first extended-range model on the continent and a direct challenge to the BMW X7, the Mercedes-Benz GLS and the Audi Q9.
The six-seat 9X Ultra runs a 900-volt dual-motor system with a two-litre turbocharged engine acting as a generator, quoted at 897 horsepower, 4.1 seconds to 100 kilometres an hour and up to 737 kilometres of combined range.
Pre-orders open in the coming months, with deliveries scheduled to begin in late December, meaning no European 9X volume reaches the delivery line this year in any material way.
The car is the fifth Zeekr model to reach Europe in three years, joining the 001 shooting brake, the 7X and X SUVs and the 7GT grand tourer.
Zeekr Europe now operates across 16 markets and aims to reach 24, after entering Spain and Portugal through Salvador Caetano and preparing arrivals in France and the United Kingdom.
The brand sells in more than 50 countries and regions worldwide.
Geely Group was the largest Chinese-owned automotive group in Europe by volume in the first half, and the five biggest Chinese-owned groups together took roughly 11% of the EU, EFTA and UK market.
The Structural Change Behind the Numbers
Zeekr completed its merger with Geely in December 2025 and delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary and folding back into Hong Kong-listed Geely Auto.
The consolidation removed Zeekr‘s standalone financial disclosure, which is why margin and profitability now have to be read out of Geely’s group results rather than from the brand directly.
Zeekr also controls sister brand Lynk & Co, forming the Zeekr Group inside the broader One Geely structure.
Domestic registrations have not risen as smoothly as the delivery line, slipping 4% sequentially to about 3,100 vehicles in one recent weekly read, a reminder that the delivery and registration series measure different things.
