Geely Holding (that’s the group and not the namesake brand) has announced the launch of its Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA), billed as the world’s first open-source electric vehicle architecture “that promises to transform the availability of zero-emission cars and trucks in the world’s largest auto markets”.
Geely says that it will deploy the SEA architecture across its portfolio of nine automotive brands (this total includes Proton) which collectively sold over two million units in 2019. The first model to be based on SEA will be the Lynk & Co Zero Concept, which will go into production next year.
The open-source part is from Geely promising to make SEA accessible to other automakers and third parties. The company says that it has entered into preliminary discussions with other global OEMs about potential use of the SEA architecture. Initially, SEA will be used by Geely Holding portfolio brands that are accelerating their EV model range.
“Our development of this transformative electric vehicle architecture marks the biggest leap forward at Geely in more than a decade. This far-reaching innovation will greatly expand the volume and scalability of our zero-emission models, and we intend to offer the benefits of this innovation to other manufacturers – reflecting the common interests in our industry in addressing the challenges of climate change. Open-source architectures will be a hallmark of new mobility services, of which Geely is proud to be the pioneer,” said Geely chairman and founder Li Shufu.
According to its creator, the modular SEA can accommodate vehicles from A to D/E segments, and will have a variant developed for light commercial vehicles. Front, rear and all-wheel drive layouts are supported. Geely says that SEA was developed over the past three years at R&D centres in China, Sweden, UK and Germany.
“The use of SEA will attract customers, both B2B and B2C, with unrivalled connectivity, shared vehicle functions, e-motor capabilities, constant over-the-air-updates that will keep vehicles up to date, leading autonomous drive functions, and will offer a maximum range in excess of 700 km between recharging with the capacity to increase range in the future,” the company said in a release.
They’re looking at the kind of synergy that today’s Common Module Architecture is achieving – CMA has underpinned nearly 700,000 vehicles to date since its introduction in 2018. Geely estimates that in the short-term, “hundreds of thousands” of SEA-based vehicles will be produced within China with numbers set to grow considerably in the long term as subsidiary brands introduce their own SEA-based products. Of course, this will reduce development costs at participating brands.
The technology development was led by Kent Bovellan, head of advanced vehicle architectures at Geely Holding. “This is a highly scalable pure electric architecture that will allow us to make the best-in-class vehicles with leading dynamics, connectivity, intelligence and shared functionality in very high volumes that will bring zero-emission transportation to many more consumers,” he said.
So, when the day Proton is ready for EVs comes, the Sustainable Experience Architecture will be at their disposal.
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Geely EV ? When want to sell Proton Iriz EV RM60k….
Even Tesla with all their inhouse capabilities could only hope to lower their cost price per car down to Rm100k. How lah our troll wants Proton to make & sell EV cars for Rm50k saja and not make massive losses.
Rest assured, there are better EV models coming in the future with inputs from Polestar and Lynk & Co. Meanwhile, when the Perodua Hybrid is coming out?
Why should Proton incur massive losses just so you can buy an EV at RM60k?
LIKE: Proton EV (under Volvo-Geely), Nissan e-power, Toyota EV, Mazda EV, Hyundai EV
DISLIKE: Honda iMMD
“So, when the day Proton is ready for EVs comes, the Sustainable Experience Architecture will be at their disposal.”
To that troll who keeps harping on P1 EV, nah ambik ko!
They shouldn’t have made the Iriz EV if they won’t release it
It is called ‘development’, boy. The car is ready for production and sales when there is market demand but right now EV is uneconomical to buy and use by normal people with normal income.
Following your logic, Perodua shouldn’t showed the Kenari Hybrid almost 17 years ago if they never have intention to produce it? You don’t know what concept cars and development prototypes mean, do you?
Zehahahahahaha
Just the other day i saw a hater said Geely is successful only because the founder is politically connected with CCP, showing his ignorance and prejudice.
He had no idea, if it is political connection, other Chinese brands are state owned. Yet Geely with absolutely 0 state ownership, that is privately owned and built up by Li Shufu, is far more successful than the others.
Why is that? What Geely has that others don’t? It’s merit. Business acumen. Prudence. Discipline. Long term vision and commitment to invest into the future, to be a market leader, not mere follower.
There is no doubting. Majulah Geely! Majulah Proton!
*Social distance fist bump* These pipu r still stuck in their thinking that china & MY products are shits. Kesian all these cavepipu only know how to lie to themselves. Just like those ignorants during dark age cannot explains sun & moon, so they thinking everything revolves around earth.
Proton could make their own EV, they even showcased their Game-Changing Iriz EV to the public on 2015. But the question is why Proton are very hesitant to release it? Every year keep promising to people that Proton will release it until today 2020 also haven’t been released yet. Today need to rely on Geely to make EV, so sad.
“-…Every year keep promising to people that Proton will release it…-” Really bro? Please show proof.
Waste of energy to explain much to an intentionally stubborn buffoon like you, so got 1 word for you: Dyson
“The open-source part is from Geely”
“open source” sounds good, but under what license the platform is released? “open source” DOES NOT mean it’s free.
The Android kernel is “open source” too, but the license dictates that modifications have to be released as “open source” too (which makes sense).
Certainly nothing is absolutely free, there will be caveats but that is no different than Tesla many years ago releasing their EV technology as ‘open source’, and yet so far nobody has adopted Tesla’s ‘open source’ system.
“The open-source part is from Geely”
anyone knows where the link to the source code repos is? eg github or similar. have they written code and actually contribute, or are they free riding OSS and just put their label on top? which would be fine, but no one would care (in developer communities)
“open source” DOES NOT mean it’s free.
yes, it does. https://opensource.org/osd
if the license does not provide this, it is not open source.
“the license dictates that modifications have to be released as “open source””
yes, the (A)GPL) requires this from the developer, and hence ensures user rights and choice. freedom.