- Strategy for 2030 Announced “One Geely, Leading through Innovation and Integration”
- Target Annual Sales by 2030 to Exceed 6.5 Million
- Revenues to Exceed 1 Trillion RMB
- Share of New Energy Vehicles to Exceed 75%
2026 January 22nd, Hangzhou, China – Geely Holding Group (“Geely Holding”) released its five-year strategic blueprint “One Geely, Leading through Innovation and Integration” for 2030. Under the plan, Geely Holding aims to strengthen top-level coordination and global collaboration, build a strategic capability system, become a leader among global automakers, and pioneer high-quality globalization for Chinese enterprises.
Geely Holding Group also announced its key targets for 2030: to achieve global sales exceeding 6.5 million vehicles (passenger cars + commercial vehicles), revenue exceeding 1 trillion RMB, ranking among the top five global automakers in sales, reached a new energy vehicle penetration rate of 75%, sales outside of China accounting for more than one-third of the Group’s annual total, and develop world-class new energy architectures covering A- to E-class models that reduces the average R&D cycle and overall cost per model by over 30%.
In 2026, Geely will celebrate its 40th anniversary and enter a new stage of development. The next five years will be crucial for Geely Holding Group to achieve three major strategic goals: transition from product manufacturing competitiveness to ecosystem service competitiveness, from competitiveness based on scale and cost to green and intelligent technology, and from independent operation of each brand to deep global collaboration.
Building a Global Brand Matrix and Deepening Comprehensive Synergy within “One Geely”
In 2025, Geely Holding focused on its core businesses, demonstrated strong resilience and stable development: total sales reached 4.116 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 26%, and achieved five consecutive years growth. Sales of new energy vehicles reached 2.293 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 58%, with a new energy vehicle penetration rate of 56%. Geely Holding’s sales exceeded 4 million vehicles for the first time, ranking seventh globally and becoming the fastest-growing company among the top ten global automotive groups.
Following the 2030 strategic blueprint of “One Geely, Leading through Innovation and Integration,” “One Geely” aims to strengthen the group’s top-level planning and global governance, build a platform for strategic synergy and resource integration, and achieve technology co-creation, market co-expansion, and supply chain co-sharing. “Leading through Innovation and Integration” focuses on building a strategic capability system centered on brands, technology, vehicles, ecosystems, talents, and sustainability to forge new core competitiveness in both hardware and software. Through coordinated development in domestic and overseas markets, the group aims to enhance its competitive advantage, become a leader among global automakers, and pioneer high-quality globalization for Chinese enterprises.
Geely Holding will focus on “strengthening the “Geely” corporate brand,” while building a global brand matrix of its portfolio brands with clear positioning, distinctiveness, and mutual empowerment. Geely Holding will fully leverage the brand advantages of Geely Auto, Geely Galaxy, Lynk & Co, and Zeekr, giving full play to their “home advantage” and access to localized operational capabilities of global brands such as Volvo, Polestar, and Lotus in the European and American markets. In addition, the Group will work with international partners such as Renault Group to create a new paradigm of open, collaborative, and mutually beneficial brand cooperation.
Building Leading Product Competitiveness with a “Seven-Dimension” Technology Ecosystem and Consolidating Global Leadership in Safety
Geely Holding will continue to enhance the competitiveness of its “Seven Dimension” technology ecosystem, centered on intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, E/E architecture, vehicle architecture, battery, electric drive, and super hybrid powertrains as well as further strengthen its leading position in safety in the era of electrification and intelligence. In intelligent driving, the “G-Pilot” platform will be developed into the world’s most advanced intelligent driving technology platform, achieving full coverage of L2-level assisted driving, rapidly advancing L3 pilots, and accelerating the commercialization of L4 capabilities and Robotaxi operations. Integrated with intelligent cockpits and supported by AGI and Agent technologies, the AIOS operating system will transform vehicles into super-intelligent products. Geely’s Super Hybrid technology advances the development of new fuels and new combustion technologies. The thermal efficiency of the new NordThor AI hybrid engine is expected to exceed 50%. The SEA super hybrid system is evolving towards ultra-high power, ultra-high performance, and ultra-high safety, setting the trend for the global development of luxury hybrid technology.
Safety is Geely’s top priority. Geely Holding will continue to strengthen the deep synergy of safety technologies within the group, creating a synergetic “world-class safety dual-pole” between Volvo Cars and Geely Auto. Geely aims to accelerate the evolution of safety from single vehicles to entire ecosystem encompassing people, vehicles, roads, cloud, and space. Geely will push the safety of its “Shendun Golden Battery” to become an industry benchmark and gradually realize the industrialization of semi-solid and solid-state batteries.
Expansion of Ecosystem Businesses and Accelerating the Formation of New Competitive Advantages through Ecosystem Synergies
Geely Holding will focus on developing three major ecosystems: user services, future mobility, and methanol-hydrogen electric vehicles. Through Geely’s user ecosystem, it will build a “convenient, transparent, digital, and ecological” service ecosystem around the entire user lifecycle, increasing investment in hardware facilities, optimizing service processes, reshaping service standards, launching the “Geely Boundless” ecosystem, and creating a service brand based around high satisfaction, high repurchase rates, and high reputation that will become a new industry benchmark for user service.
Geely’s future mobility ecosystem will accelerate the development of an integrated space-air-ground future mobility ecosystem jointly built by Geely Auto, Qianli Technology, Cao Cao Mobility, Aerofugia, and Geespace. By 2030, Geely Holding will have initially established an integrated air-ground mobility service capability covering major cities in China and deployed 100,000 fully customized Cao Cao Mobility Robotaxi vehicles with plans for global commercial operation in the future.
Through the methanol-hydrogen electric vehicle ecosystem, Geely has built up its competitive advantage across the entire industrial chain, covering methanol production, transportation, refueling, and vehicle manufacturing. Over 50,000 methanol-hydrogen hybrid electric vehicles are in operation, accumulating over 23 billion kilometers of driving. Geely has received over 400 core patents for methanol-hydrogen technologies. In the future, Geely will increase the application and promotion of methanol-hydrogen electric technology in automobiles, ships, mining machinery, construction machinery, generator, and other fields, and accelerate the construction of methanol fueling networks in key regions and logistics routes.
Promoting the Development of Talents and Strengthening Organizational Culture and Employee Motivation
Cultivating a technology-driven and service-oriented organizational structure and talent pool is crucial for Geely Holding’s transformation into a technology-driven enterprise. Geely will continue to deepen its “talent forest” strategy, expand its strategic industry-education integration projects, cultivate professionals in new energy, artificial intelligence, and other fields, promote the rejuvenation and globalization of its leadership, and build a high-quality talent ecosystem tailored to support each individual. Starting in 2026, Geely Holding will initially invest 50 million yuan, with a future investment of 300 million yuan, to launch a youth innovation and entrepreneurship incentive program. Geely Holding’s subsidiaries will directly recruit high school graduates with special skills for targeted training within the companies, actively exploring a new talent development model in the era of artificial intelligence. This will help the company explore more proactive, effective, and practical innovative development paths for human resource development and management.
ESG has become a “new engine” for global competitiveness. Geely Holding will continuously strengthen its sustainable development governance system and support the innovation of green and energy-saving technologies and products. Over the next five years, Geely is committed improving sustainability throughout entire product lifecycles, promoting the development and application of new environmentally friendly materials in new models, reducing the carbon footprint of complete vehicles, and pushing key factories to achieve carbon neutrality. The group will also build green partnerships, using green procurement practices and technology sharing to encourage hundreds of suppliers to develop clear carbon reduction roadmaps.
Based on the strategic goals of Geely Holding Group, in 2026, Geely Auto Group, elevated its mission to “Making Refined Intelligent Cars for Everyone” and will drive the high-quality development of the automotive industry through innovation in AI technologies, energy diversification, pursuing product premiumization, and accelerating globalization. Geely Auto’s All-Domain AI 2.0 connects all vehicle systems, constructing a unified “vehicle brain” for global collaboration across all domains of a vehicles. Geely Auto’s new-generation G-ASD advanced driver assistance system, adopts the VLA+WAM big models to offer users class-leading assisted driving experience; the upcoming global next-generation hybrid technology i-HEV Intelligent Dual Engine, will be the world’s first hybrid system to feature “AI cloud-power,” which enables i-HEV products to achieve fuel consumption levels as low as 3L/100km; and the soon-to-be-launched Zeekr 8X will offer users the unique performance driving experience of a BEV as well as the convenience of the super hybrid. Furthermore, Geely Auto will continue to pursue a global development path of “deep regionalization” and “global collaboration,” steadily advancing its high-quality overseas expansion.
On the cusp of Geely Holding’s 40th anniversary, the group remains steadfast and unwavering at crucial moments. Under the banner of “One Geely,” a blueprint to “Lead through Innovation and Integration” has been drafted, focusing on the group’s core businesses, deepening strategic collaboration, enhancing its competitiveness through innovation, and accelerating its transition to becoming a globally leading intelligent electric mobility technology company.
