Geely’s plug-in hybrid D-segment sedan, the Galaxy A7, will soon spawn a full-electric version simply called the Galaxy A7 EV. Deriving its powertrain from the Galaxy E5/EX5/Proton eMas 7, the automobile is anticipated to debut at Auto China in Beijing later this month.
The A7 EV looks practically equivalent to the regular A7, with the visual changes being few and much between. Without the necessity to feed air into the engine, the centre intake is barely smaller, and there are also slimmer air curtain inlets within the corners of the front bumper. There’s a touch of junior Lucid Air in there, should you ask me.
The charge port has also been moved from the rear to the front fender, identical to it’s on the eMas 7. Lastly, there are latest five-spoke alloy wheels (comically oversized, as is typical for Geely’s recent renders), together with a mildly re-profiled rear valance.
No changes are discernible on the within, where the A7 EV still incorporates a clean dashboard with a full-width air vent design, a bridge-like centre console with an eMas 7-style physical control knob and a two-spoke steering wheel. The ten.25-inch digital instrument display and a 15.4-inch infotainment touchscreen – each running on the Flyme Auto interface – are also carried over.
No technical details have been announced just yet, but Autohome reports that the automobile is powered by the eMas 7’s 218 PS (160 kW) front motor, juiced by either a 49.52 kWh or a 58.05 kWh Aegis short blade LFP battery – as disclosed in a Chinese ministry of industry and data technology (MIIT) filing. These are expected to deliver range figures of 470 km and 550 km respectively on the Middle Kingdom’s lenient CLTC cycle, we estimate WLTP numbers of around 385 km for the smaller battery and 450 km with the larger one.
The A7 EV could form the premise of a brand new Proton eMas sedan, which can be a great fit if the national carmaker were to expand its electrified offerings beyond the present SUVs and hatches. In spite of everything, the corporate did tease a sedan back when it launched the sub-brand in 2024.
With the D-segment sedan market all but dead in Malaysia, nonetheless, we’d sooner expect Proton to release a smaller model based on the Geely Galaxy Starshine 6 PHEV – itself derived from the brand new fifth-generation Emgrand. A pure EV version of the C-segmenter would give the corporate a “Proton S70 EV” of sorts, useful at a time when petrol prices are set to go up within the near future.
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This Article First Appeared At paultan.org
