NaaS and its strategic partner Kuaidian will jointly give Geely EV owners access to a multitude of charging bays dotted around China and abroad. This cooperation covers Geely’s Yinhe and Lynk brands as well as other marques.
Using ‘one-click bay searching’, ‘one-click charging’, ‘one-click payment’ and other convenient features at Geely Auto app, mini program and Kuaidian app, EV owners can enjoy more efficient charging and service. NaaS has already worked with Zeekr, a Geely Auto luxury intelligent BEV brand, to provide accessible charging services for millions of car owners.
“Charging service experience has a bearing on the quality of development of the EV industry,” said Liang Xing, VP of NaaS. “By leveraging developed charging solutions as well as extensive resources and experience built up on charging service market, NaaS vows to help more automakers like Geely to make EV charging more accessible, and jointly bring EV charging services to a new level."
In recent years, Geely Auto has been stepping up its new energy and intelligent transformation, with overall advancements made in hybrid, BEV, battery swapping, methanol, and many other technological paths. Geely Auto's sales data in January 2024 shows a year-on-year increase of 110% and 591% in single-month sales and EV sales respectively, amounting to 213,000 and 65,800. In 2023, Geely made solid progress in accelerating its new energy transformation on all fronts, as evidenced by an 18% increase and 48% increase of sales and EV sales respectively to 1.68 million and 487,000 in the year.
NaaS, the first US listed EV charging service company in China and a new energy asset operator, provides one-stop industry chain service package. As of 30 September 2023, NaaS connected over 767,000 chargers covering 73,000 charging stations. In the third quarter of 2023, NaaS' charging volume leaped 66% year over year to 1.383 billion kWh, representing 21.8% of the public charging volume in China.
