Some interesting facts: 1. the chasis is tuned by Lotus giving it good driving dynamics 2. the safety tech comes from Volvo 3. the 100 kw/h battery is made by CATL the No.1 battery maker in the world.
Some other facts: The car was mostly developed in Sweden and the SEA platform development, on which the car is based, is headed by Kent Bovellan, former Saab top engineer.
Yes. Its dimensions (4.97m length, 1.99m width, 1.56m height) are not far com a Tesla Model S (5.02 x 1.99m x 1.43m). Just 5cm shorter and quite a bit taller.
I have seen one of these cars at the compound of the company I work for and MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! the exterior design of the Zeekr 001 caught my attention immediately. IRL it looks like an insanely lowered and stretched out I-Pace, which gives the car a very sleek station wagon feeling. And not going to lie, I had been very curious about this car, so thank you very much for reviewing it, uncle Bjorn! Your review had already highlighted that the trunk is insanely practical AF, however the backseat situation (tall family here!) makes me want to try out the car myself first and the infotainment system is SOOOOO Tesla-ish that it would require me some time to adjust to it (I love the quick buttons in my classic 1st gen Ioniq and the two tap for the heated seats feels like an overkill :/) Regardless, it still looks a promising car in the sea of unending EV SUVs for sure!
@@SylverWWAThis is not an EV SUV, it is a EV touring car. It looks like SUV because it’s air suspension can lift the car up for 4inch. Also, I own this car. It’s a very good one I have to say. It has 560km range and its chassis is conditioed by lotus. Its interior is also fully covered by nappa leather and alcantara. All in all, Very much worth its price.
This is the first time I hear about or see this car and only after the video I found out that this is a Chinese company. Wow, I'm really impressed. Even the software looks nice.
@@benjaminsmith2287 Indeed, Geely also owns Volvo and Polestar. It will be interesting to see how Zeekr is going to fit into the lineup, especially with the latter.
Great video. You answered lots of spec that we where not able to read from spec to our database. This review is of course front page material. Keep up the awsome work! Looking forward to your driving impressions.
cool, thanks, Bjørn! please, if possible, produce more reviews on both 001 and X. prising and all your other usual reviews with zeekr cars would be amazing!
Seen and driven it in China, nice car indeed - a fat but super chill cousin of the Volvos. One issue though: it's very talkative and would quibble about the tiniest of things. ADAS sounds like a marching band when activated in town. Will be fun watching Bjørn wrestling with it...
I like it. Interior looks nice. The user interface does seem easy to use, unlike a lot of non-Tesla cars. However, I would like to have "adaptive" cupholders that work well with different size drinks.
For someone that works with all brands, its easy to recognize who produces parts for this car. Its a VAG design, buttons, leavers in the boot etc. VAG door hinges is a easy way to spot it, the Hongqi is also a VAG/Audi product. After reparing a damaged Hongqi I realized its just a redesigned e -Tron. It even has a Audi key fob
Really impressed with what these Chinese companies are churning out lately. If the software doesn't suck and the efficiency is good, it's game over for legacy carmakers.
The software is actually very geographic related to be fair. Just like Tesla's software in terms of localisation and ecosystem actually is far worse in China compared to Huawei, Li auto, XPeng and NIO. But yeah, I agree that they should do better and at least have Carplay or Android Auto compensating it.
@@benjaminsmith2287 Zeekr is still a Chinese company, 51% owned by Geely Automobile Group and 49% owned by Geely Holding Group when the brand was founded. As of now, after a series of shareholder restructuring, Shanghai Maple Guorun Automobile Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is the largest shareholder. Delegating some of the work to former Saab employees doesn't make it more Swedish.
@@ruemignon All Mr. Benjamin cares about is that this good product isn't done purely by the Chinese for whatever reason. He has been posting in all these EV channels for a long time about how anything coming out of Geely isn't "Chinese." lol. You are wasting your energy explaining this to him as it is not his goal to get convinced by facts in this manner. Even if you slap the Geely documentary vids in CN internet detailing how Geely's China team develops their platforms and leading the development, he still won't care I guarantee you.
I have waited this to arrive to Europe since the launch when they said they will arrive to Europe. I would like to comparison between this and Polestar 4.
Polestar 4 is based on this but uses Volvo materials and the suspension is likely tuned quite differently. The "controversial" aspect of the Polestar 4 is that it doesn't have a rear window. The interior is quite different in materials, but similar in layout. The UI will be different in the Polestar.
Great to see you doing a review on this car as i'm interested in buying one if and when they come to Australia. The deal breaker for me will be if roof racks can't be fitted. I've yet to find any reviewer that's been able to answer this question. I'm hoping that you'll be able to find this out.
I have a zeekr 001 and i will tell u guys this car definitely good both for family or fun. However，it might be too big for Europe . i wish they bring new 800v platform to the 2024 version.
I love this car, i truly do, the first chinese contender for european market that i can actually see have a chance. Now we just need to get some prices for Denmark.
Lots of times you hear people say "Here's another Tesla competitor.". But to be unbiased about it, I think that many of the Chinese brands have already gone much further.
I recently saw two of these in Guangxi and was impressed by the styling and for me, right sized. Not sure we would get it in North America, yet still a rather beautiful design.
Great design. So far, my picks for the future of NEV winners will be Tesla, NIO, Polestar, whatever this thing is and probably Toyota. There are a couple other brands, but I think they’re lagging behind.
@@Torsten. Some seem to think that they are just too big to fail, so thats why they wont, and dont take the lessons from other big former dominant companies who catastrophically failed or declined to a shadow of their former selves because they didnt adaprt to a changing envorinment. re Toyota, you just have to look at their first EV effort, truly awful, and that they have said their current platform is obsolete and they will not have a new one for 4 years. Add to that, their current plans involve them making only 1/3 their production EV by 2030, when most likely EV sales will be 80-90%, to see they will be a fraction of their current size by then. The issue is can they sustain their financial obligations (deby, eployees, pensions etc) selling only 1/3 their current number of vehicles. Id say no but the likelihood is the Japanese govt will bail them out like the US did with Ford and GM.
Zeekr teaser. I look forward to the embargo being lifted. Just think, if I didn't come to this channel every week, I could just look at this a month from now and not wait.
As a chinese, my belief is that made in China should bring you cheap and good stuff. That is why we should develop technology. In China, its starting price is cheaper than model y LR, so don't buy this car until it is as cheap as a model y long range.
This is not a fully Chinese car as I see being mentioned in comments. This is a CEVTcar. This is not a Volvo or Polestar either though they are beginning to share with each other. CEVT is China European Vehicle Technology AB (Swedish registration) and the car is designed in Sweden but looks like they've designed some aspects of the interior for the Chinese market. Europeans designed the exterior for the 0001 in Gothenburg, Sweden (not China). The Zeekr X was designed by a team of Swedes. Geely is big on Swedish engineering and some Swedish tech is used in some of their brands. Not all of it is Volvo/Polestar, however. There may be some Lotus involvement in the car as well but not a lot.
Hiring European talent does not make Geely less Chinese. The official CEVT website says : CEVT is an innovation and technology company within Geely Holding, developing mobility solutions for a different tomorrow. Since 2013 CEVT has grown rapidly and now keeps some 2000 people busy. China Euro Vehicle Technology AB is a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.
@@ruemignon repeating my reply elsewhere: All Mr. Benjamin cares about is that this good product isn't done purely by the Chinese for whatever reason. He has been posting in all these EV channels for a long time about how anything coming out of Geely isn't "Chinese." lol. You are wasting your energy explaining this to him as it is not his goal to get convinced by facts in this manner. Even if you slap the Geely documentary vids in CN internet detailing how Geely's China team develops their platforms and leading the development, he still won't care I guarantee you.
@@Fldllse I see your point but I'd still like to waste a little bit of my energy tho. With all due respect, I don't think mentioning Saab would make Zeekr look any better than it already does, considering Saab is a goner already.
@@ruemignon I'd prefer keeping them in their "dreaming state" so to speak. So that they will become fully reliant on the things they look down upon without even noticing. Actually they already are in a variety of degrees XD
Good collab. Let the Europeans do the stuff they are still good at, like exterior/interior styling, maybe some suspension tuning from Lotus, which is very experience at that sort of thing. But the key hardware/software components of the car is done by Geely back in China. All the key bits, such as the battery sourced from CATL, the electric drivetrain components, all the control and infotainment software, all done in China because they are now world leaders in those key aspects of EV manufacturing. Just look at Geely and Daimler's 50:50 joint venture for the new Smart cars. What does Mercedes Benz contribute? Styling basically. But the important stuff, the SEA platform, the drive train, the battery, the key software, all that stuff is from China.
YES, YES, YES !!! A rare Chinese car with the right trunk opening like Kia EV6, or BMW i4. BYD, Nio, Tesla M3 go home. Does it have a 230V AC power supply in the car and V2Device Adapter? Than the Zeekr 001 will be right on top of my list in a few years.
First video I see from you Bjørn and I really like it :) well done! Please make one about driving experience and I'm also curious what safety features it has for driving, i.e. lane assist, auto-braking, blind spots, pedestrian detection, etc. This car will definitely be a hit in EU
Yes I heard about this one. 750+ km real range with 140kwh battery pack! By that time the 140kwh battery version comes to europe and improve its software Tesla should be able to achieve the same range.
20 secs in, I wonder if I am ever going to get used to the two-faces designs of modern cars. It's like a Ferrari modena (or something) on the bonnet and in addition a Mustang in that darker grill area... The Nissan Juke is really around the time I really noticed. It's like staring at those illusion where you can only see one thing at the time, a vase or two faces.
Zeekr, looking forward for the Zeekr X in europe. going against smart #1 and volvo ex30 which are exactly the same platform all 3 but different styles and interriour
Yet another big Chinese ev to hit the market 🥱 glad it's not an suv though, just wish we got more small size cars and wagons. Getting real tired of crossovers and SUVs, such a terrible shape for evs to be in.
Would def consider this over et7 if it was available b4. I believe at least in China this was the first car to be equipped with new superfast catl (? taking this from memory) batteries
Looks very very nice, i think that screen and software is a little copy of Tesla. But I think they have interesting improvements over Tesla in terms of the overall car.
they used to have very poor hardware and software，they exchange all the chips in delivered vehicle into 8155 for free，and upgrade the software，although it looks like tesla‘s software but at least it works well now….😂
Geely has acquired a mobile phone company in China that is close to bankruptcy and asked them to help develop car systems. It's not a replica, in fact, consumer electronics companies have better interaction skills
Not necessarily the video to mention it. But why does automakers not allow you to choose to only heat the back of the seat. I don't necessarily want to have the bottom of the seat heated every time I turn on my seat heating.
it surely gotta be awesome in and out because it is supposed to start from like 100k €. the UI looks totally like in Tesla. Like totally. Almost same pictograms even.
Thank you for the video Bjorn. Not bad this Zeekr 001 but nothing to be extatic about. It still looks a lot like a good old ICE car. Miserable frunk (that says a lot about the way the car was designed), the Infotainment system seems to be a clone of Tesla's (what a creativity!) and we still don't know whether Zeekr will survive the mass production ramp up. So guys and gals, let's cool down a bit...
Rival? It outclasses Tesla [Model S] as a car. Way more premium on the inside, way better mechanics/chassi while still being way cheaper (at least here in Sweden).
@@bjornnyland Showroom, Press room, Exebition hall, potato potato, call it what you want. Anyway, bad lightning in it, considered press needs to walk around, and film and take pictures.
00:40 tiny frunk (front trunk) … why? 🤷♂️ We use the frunk on our M3 all the time. Seems like the designers of this Zeekr haven’t understood packaging/practicality. Shame. The rest looks decent.
Zeekr is no ordinary chinese EV. They are produced from Geely who bought Volvo and still possess volvo 's design and know-how. So its like another Volvo against Tesla.
