Zeekr 7X facelift in Guangzhou – up to 795 PS, 802 km CLTC range, 6C DC fast charging, coming to Malaysia?

Another debutant at Auto Guangzhou is the facelifted Zeekr 7X, which was launched in China late last month. This rather significant mechanical refresh arrives just over a year from the electric SUV’s introduction and mere months after the car made its way to global markets, including Malaysia.

The design changes are fairly minor – on the outside, these include a new front bumper that mirrors the sportier design of the 007 GT’s, with corner air inlets flanking the (now no longer active) centre air intake. The tailgate is also new and now incorporates the rear number plate recess, with the cleaner bumper now featuring greater use of body colour. Chrome skirting all around helps give the 7X a more upmarket air.

The car’s most recognisable feature – the optional Stargate customisable light curtain, consisting of 1,831 LEDs – continues to feature at the front. However, the centre section of the full-width light strip below now turns blue when in automated driving mode; this is repeated on the door mirrors and in the lamps in the rear bumper, as you can see in these images.

Inside, the 7X’s classy cabin has been left well alone, save for the new orange and purple colour options. That means it’s still fitted with a 13.02-inch digital instrument display, a 16-inch mini-LED infotainment touchscreen and a China-exclusive fully-reclining rear passenger-side seat with an ottoman, heating ventilation and massage functions, a fold-out table and a separate 13-inch OLED touchscreen.

The vast majority of the 7X’s reengineering has been done under the skin. Buyers now get uprated 900-volt motors from the 2026 001, with even the single-motor rear-wheel-drive version boosted significantly to 503 PS (370 kW) and 535 Nm. This gets it from zero to 100 km/h three tenths of a second quicker at 5.4 seconds, or 5.1 seconds for the long range variant. Opt for the dual-motor all-wheel-drive 7X and outputs swell to 795 PS (585 kW) and 812 Nm, allowing it to complete the century sprint in a blistering 2.98 seconds.

As for range, the base model soldiers on with a 75 kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, although Zeekr has freed up a bit of extra range at 620 km (up from 605 km previously) – still on China’s wildly optimistic CLTC cycle. Long range variants upgrade to a 103 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) pack to bump up the range figures to 802 km (previously 780 km) with RWD and 715 km (previously 705 km) with AWD.

The 7X has always been strong at DC fast charging, and the base model continues to offer “5.5C” charging, meaning that it accept up to 5.5 times of its battery capacity in charging input (around 450 kW, the same as before). That means it will still charge from 10 to 80% in 10.5 minutes.

As for the long range models – previously the poor relation in this regard, at just 420 kW – DC charging has been uprated to “6C” (around 650 kW) thanks to a new full-stack 900-volt electrical architecture, taking just ten minutes flat to top up from 10 to 80% charge.

Safety-wise, all models in China now come standard with Geely’s range-topping G-Pilot H7 suite of driver assists, powered by the latest Nvidia Drive Thor-U chips. With lidar sensors all around, the 7X is capable of door-to-door highly automated driving and remote parking assist.

Prices for the facelifted 7X in China start from 229,800 yuan (RM133,900) for the 75 kWh RWD Max model, rising up to 249,800 yuan (RM145,600) for the 103 kWh version and 269,800 yuan (RM157,200) for the AWD Ultra. As yet, it’s unclear if these new features (and indeed, the wider facelift) will be offered to global markets such as Malaysia, given that the current model is still so fresh – and that we haven’t been lucky with facelifts of other Chinese cars. Would you like to see this here? Let us know in the comments.

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