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Zeekr wants the new 7X to outsell the Kia EV5, BYD Atto 3 and MG 4 in the Australian market.
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Zeekr is aiming to sell up to 500 7X SUVs per month in Australia, with pricing starting from $57,900 before on-road costs for the new mid-sized electric SUV.
With more than 500 pre-orders already logged, Zeekr Australia managing director Frank Li is predicting the 7X electric car to catapult the fledgling automotive brand into new heights of success.
“We’ve had a very good start, 400 or 500 (sales) per month is a number that is reachable.” Li told Drive, speaking about the recently launched 7X.
“The 7X brings us the biggest potential, and the Australian market is a very important market for us, as usual.” Li explained.
If these sales figures are realised, it would make the Zeekr 7X the brand’s most popular model by a significant margin, against the X small SUV and 009 people mover.
Li has also signalled potential future growth for the brand from possible future plug-in hybrid models.
In the first half of 2025, the Zeekr X small SUV has logged 384 sales in Australia, while the larger and more expensive 009 people mover - which is priced from $139,900 plus on-road costs - has logged 66 examples sold.
Li’s target for the 7X would make 2400 to 3000 vehicle sales in the same time frame of six months, which would make the 7X outsell the X by more than six times.
This would also put the Zeekr 7X amongst the top five of electric car sales in 2025, outselling the likes of the Kia EV5, BYD Atto 3, MG 4 and Geely EX5.
Li put a lot of emphasis on the importance of the Australian market for Zeekr, which is owned by Chinese automotive giant Geely.
“We only have three national sales companies all over the world: Australia, Thailand and Mexico.”
"Apart from these three, most of our other international markets are based on the distributor model.”
“That shows our ambitions in this market.”
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Sam Purcell has been writing about cars, four-wheel driving and camping since 2013, and obsessed with anything that goes brum-brum longer than he can remember. Sam joined the team at CarAdvice/Drive as the off-road Editor in 2018, after cutting his teeth at Unsealed 4X4 and Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures. Off-road writer of the Year, Winner - Sam Purcell
