The Spring Festival Gala of the main station, the movies of the Spring Festival files, the statistics and comparison of the number of tourists from all over the country, etc., these contents almost habitually occupy the hot search list during the Spring Festival every year. At the same time, the entire automotive industry has always tacitly entered a short period of silence.
The Spring Festival in 2024 has some exceptions.
On February 4, Mr. Wei from Tongren, Guizhou Province, was driving a Lynk & Co 08 EM-P with two family members on his way back to his hometown in ice and snow, and in order to avoid a large truck, the vehicle skidded and lost control, falling off a cliff about 60 meters deep. Fortunately, Mr. Wei and his family members in the same car only suffered minor abrasions, and then the vehicle automatically sent an SOS call for help, and the three people were successfully rescued.
After the incident was fermented by the whole network, the news that Geely's car safety value was full made an exception to be on the hot search list during the Spring Festival.
The king of the volumes?
February 18, the ninth day of the first lunar month.
In the New Year's message titled "The 'Galaxy Era' of New Energy, the 'Youth Era' of Chinese Automobiles" released by Geely Automobile Group CEO Gan Jiayue through Geely Automobile's official WeChat, he made a brief response to the Lynk & Co 08 EM-P traffic accident in Tongren, Guizhou.
Ganjiayue said that what we do is to respect the lives of users, not to do superficial articles, but to lay a solid foundation and practice internal skills. Users are the first value of existence, and giving users safety is not out of marketing, but out of doing.
The word "dry" actually shows Geely's confidence and domineering spirit of making cars and making steady and far-reaching results.
I still remember that in January 2023, Ganjiayue announced in the form of "cloud release": the new digital infrastructure of the "Intelligent Geely 2025 Strategy", the first "cloud, data, and intelligence" integrated super cloud computing platform of the world's car companies, and the Geely Star Intelligent Computing Center was officially launched.
The "super brain for car manufacturing" with a total computing power of 8.1 billion times per second in the cloud was officially launched, pushing Geely's digitalization, data, and intelligence to another level.
In February 2023, Geely Automobile released its new energy strategy and launched the mid-to-high-end new energy series "Geely Galaxy".
Since then, Geely Automobile has formed a full-dimensional layout in the new energy market. From Polestar, Extreme Krypton, to Lynk & Co, Galaxy, to Geometry, Panda, and even smart elf, Volvo, Lotus, ......Geely Group can be said to be one of the world's most comprehensive and subdivided automobile groups with the most comprehensive layout of new energy.
In other words, Geely has completed the perfect transformation of vision globalization, market globalization, brand globalization, capital globalization and quality globalization.
In May 2023, Geely Galaxy's exclusive "Aegis Battery Safety System" completed its first basic safety test at the China Automotive Center. And successfully passed the industry's most difficult and demanding battery acupuncture test. In September, the Geely Galaxy L6 equipped with the Aegis battery safety system completed the industry's first three-vehicle high-speed rear-end collision extreme crash test at the Shanghai Motor Vehicle Testing and Certification Technology Research Center, and the "Aegis battery safety system" was proved to have superpowers beyond the industry's safety.
At 7:37 on February 3 this year, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center successfully launched the 02 group of satellites of the Geely Constellation.
Geely Constellation, also known as the "Future Constellation Constellation" satellite, is the world's first commercial integrated constellation of communication, navigation and remote sensing, independently developed by Geely's Space-Time Daoyu. Prior to this, in June 2022, Spacetime Daoyu successfully launched 9 satellites in the first orbit of the constellation into orbit in the way of "one arrow and 9 stars", forming the first orbital plane of the constellation. This time, the 11 will form the second orbital plane of the constellation.
According to the plan, Geely will complete the deployment of 72 satellites in the first phase of the constellation in 2025, which will provide satellite application services for global users and achieve global positioning capabilities without blind spots.
In fact, from June 2020, Geely entered the "40 comprehensive architecture car manufacturing system car manufacturing era", since becoming a Chinese automobile company with a world-class modular architecture (CMA world-class modular architecture), the entire industry has also entered an eventful autumn. Volume architecture, volume configuration, volume **, roll machine, volume flow. However, no matter what new concept the rim is popular, Geely can come up with a mature and reliable response.
At this point, let's go back to the sudden traffic accident at the beginning of the article.
As a new energy SUV, the power battery has no secondary disasters of thermal runaway, and can be accurately located in inaccessible ravines, and the vehicle will automatically send an SOS alarm for help ...... at the first time
There is no rehearsal, no script, and behind the sudden, bits and pieces related to the safety of our lives, which one is not closely related to Geely's technology priority and macro layout of car manufacturing?
Perhaps we can come to a conclusion on this, in this car-making world where "volumes" are constantly being made and the reason is chaotic, Geely is the "king of volumes".
Don't have the width of heaven and earth!
As we all know, "volume" is actually a neutral word.
If it is not rolled, it will most likely be eliminated by the industry; If you overdo it, you will definitely harm others and yourself.
If we put Geely on the name of "the king of the rolls", then what Geely has done in the past, present, and even in the future will actually be somewhat suspected of killing chickens and taking eggs.
Is that really the case?
Through Ganjiayue's New Year's message for 2024, we can get a standard answer about this.
So far, there are still people who talk about pure electric vehicles, and of course, there are also people who praise the revolutionary promotion of the automobile industry by Chinese electric vehicle companies. Geely's answer to this question is that regardless of whether pure electric is the only direction in the future, Geely believes that "electric drive" is irreversible.
This is because electric drive is the most important way to realize the transformation of various renewable resources. Even if it is "hydrogen", it is called "hydrogen fuel cell vehicle".
At present, Geely is one of the few car-making entities that stick to the green methanol project. In this regard, Geely believes that regardless of whether green methanol will become the next new energy outlet, Geely firmly believes that it is one of the most effective ways to achieve carbon neutrality.
Therefore, Geely does not participate in the battle for new energy routes, and adheres to the multi-technology routes such as green methanol, pure electric, hybrid, and hydrogen fuel.
At present, there is no conclusive jury on whether there is a future for unmanned driving. In this regard, Geely firmly believes that "intelligence" is irreversible. Because, practical applications such as smart home, smart healthcare, and smart city are already in sight. As an intelligent mobile terminal, the user's intelligent experience must be the best value needed in this era.
Therefore, based on the above, regardless of whether the war can roll out the consumption boom, Geely has always adhered to the best value, firmly believing that new energy vehicles driven by electronic architecture and software will have a better price-quality ratio.
Based on this, it seems that we cannot simply and crudely characterize the issue of Geely's "volume".
To be precise, Geely is not afraid of rolling, but has no intention of dwelling on it.
Geely has enough tactics to deal with the involution of the market, but behind it, in fact, is the strategic pattern of opening and closing, defending and attacking, taking precautions, and taking a long-term view.
Looking at it, in essence, this is under the empowerment of "Smart Geely 2025", Geely's attributes as a "technology-based enterprise" have been strengthened, and Geely's industrial chain is transforming from the traditional "self-owned closed-loop type" to the "general open type" with stronger potential energy. Obviously, Geely's "technology factor" will also help promote the rapid development of China's auto industry as a whole.
The mid-to-high-end new energy series "Geely Galaxy", which has just ended its rookie season, can become the best evidence of Geely's car making that has undergone qualitative changes.
In January, Geely Galaxy ushered in a good start to 2024, with 19,223 units sold in the whole series, close to the monthly sales of 20,000 units, and a new high. Up to now, Geely Galaxy has successively launched three cars, Galaxy L7, Galaxy L6 and Galaxy E8, forming a product layout of "pure electric + electric hybrid" and "sedan + SUV", with sales exceeding 100,000 units.
While most of the newborn car companies are still struggling with the passing line of "monthly sales exceeding 10,000", the first-year freshman Geely Galaxy has stepped out of a perfect upward curve.
With the launch of the Geely Galaxy E8 on January 5, Geely announced that it had entered the "Galaxy Era" of new energy.
In fact, the term "Galactic Era" does not refer specifically to the Geely Galaxy series. Rather, it indicates the comprehensive renewal of Geely's various brand lines, marking the comprehensive application of Geely's world-leading new energy intelligent technology in different products. It also represents Geely's system's resoluteness to "new energy", "intelligence", and "value".
Therefore, when we stand in the perspective of users and purely look at the products, we can find a new way for Geely to make cars.
Take the Geely Galaxy E8 as an example.
A 200,000-level pure electric car, the price is not cheap, and this is on the basis of the average price of Geely Galaxy has reached 160,000 yuan.
However, after some careful consideration, you will be relieved that Geely Galaxy E8, the price of the B-class car, the size of the C-class car, the supercar-level performance, and the million-level safety heritage make the Galaxy E8 a new generation of pure electric flagship in China, and of course, it is also the most worthwhile 200,000-level pure electric car at the moment.
Write at the end
On February 1, data showed that in January, Geely sold 21350,000 units, a year-on-year increase of about 110%, sales hit a record high, ranking first in the industry. Among them, the sales of new energy vehicles 660,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 591%, accounting for more than 30% of total sales.
One of the best auspicious in history has been presented.
As Gan Jiayue said, Chinese automobiles have entered the "youth era" in their prime, and Geely will fully integrate into this century trend with the vibrant "Galaxy era".