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Upcoming Chinese-based electric vehicle brand Zeekr has quietly launched its Australian website this week, revealing details of the forthcoming model lineup and key specifications.
The new website highlights two models that will soon be available in Australia, including the Zeekr X, a compact electric SUV, and the Zeekr 009, a luxurious electric multipurpose vehicle (MPV).
Looking at the Zeekr X page, it shows some key specs, including those on power and charging across the two variants. Some highlights of specs and features of this model include:
There are also double-edged daytime running lights which are formed with 56 independently controlled LEDs.
According to the brand, this enables the upper lights to integrate daytime running lights, vehicle positioning lights, and turn indicators into one system.
For the first time, the colours of the Zeekr X have also been shared locally. Five colours are on offer which include:
The Zeekr X is a larger car than the recently launched Volvo EX30 and will likely compete in the same premium compact electric SUV market.
In the approved vehicles list, we also learnt that the Zeekr X will be 13 mm higher than the Volvo EX30 which shares a similar platform to the Zeekr X.
On top of that, variants of the Zeekr X could have a braked towing capacity of 1600 kg which the car is now approved for.
On the Zeekr 009 MPV page, a video showcasing the model is shown including the drop-down screen for rear passengers. Specifications of this electric MPV are not shared on the page just yet and are expected to be announced in the coming months.
The new website comes less than a week after the approval of its first vehicle in the local market, the Zeekr X were spotted in the approved vehicles list.
Full specifications and pricing of both models are likely to be available closer to the launch date. Zeekr X will be the first model on the market in Q3 followed by Zeekr 009.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.
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Looking forward to seeing these on the roads!
The more options, the better!
On a different note, I see the move to wordpress comments is going pretty much as expected, with comment numbers falling off a cliff.
Hey, it's POETS day.
Also, you sound like MSM harping about how an immediate thing means this is the way FOREVER!!
The really cr*ppy part of changing comment systems is that all of the comments on all previous articles have simply vanished. For example, the post titled "Elon Musk promises “more affordable” EV as rival discounts take toll on Tesla profits" had 50 comments in the old system (the scroller shows 50 comments). Now it has a grand total of zero, so all those conversations and comments are simply gone and only visible in the Disqus interface.
So, basically, all the time and effort that everyone has put into this site over the years to provide useful and helpful comments has simply been thrown away. That's a great way to p!ss off the readership...
Yeah, that bit sux
I'm new to comments yet liked to read all the feeds as they were helpful info - albeit the trolls and people hanging crap on each other - which why they changed.
Hopefully people with sensible comments will stay
Well, it's been a few days now and the commenters haven't come back, TD is looking a lot like a ghost town now. Very poor decision to change to WP comments, and the sad thing is, it was bloody obvious that such a change would cause the loss of far more than any potential gains.
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