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Meet the Geely Galaxy A7 – The Hybrid Sedan with Massive Driving Range

Mar 052026

The Geely Galaxy A7 is a mid-size plug-in hybrid sedan produced by Chinese automaker Geely under its Galaxy sub-brand. The model was officially launched in China in August 2025 and is designed to compete in the growing hybrid sedan segment. Positioned between other Galaxy models, the A7 aims to offer modern design, high efficiency, and advanced hybrid technology for everyday family use. The car belongs to the D-segment sedan class and is primarily targeted at competitors such as the BYD Seal 06 DM-i and other hybrid sedans in the market.

The Galaxy A7 is built on Geely’s Global Intelligent New Energy Architecture (GEA) platform, which is designed specifically for hybrid and electric vehicles. This platform allows the vehicle to integrate advanced electrification systems while maintaining a spacious cabin and good driving stability. The sedan measures about 4,918 mm in length, 1,905 mm in width, and 1,495 mm in height, with a 2,845 mm wheelbase, providing ample interior space and comfort for passengers.

Under the hood, the Geely Galaxy A7 features a plug-in hybrid powertrain that combines a 1.5-liter naturally aspirated gasoline engine with a powerful electric motor. The petrol engine produces around 109–112 horsepower, while the electric motor can generate approximately 235–238 horsepower, delivering strong overall system performance. This setup uses Geely’s advanced NordThor AI Hybrid 2.0 system, designed to optimize power delivery, efficiency, and smooth driving experience.

One of the most impressive features of the Galaxy A7 is its extremely long driving range. When the battery is fully charged and the fuel tank is full, the car can travel more than 2,100 kilometers according to the CLTC testing cycle. Even when the battery is depleted, the sedan maintains excellent fuel efficiency with consumption as low as about 2–2.7 liters per 100 km, making it one of the most efficient hybrid sedans in its class.

The Galaxy A7 also offers multiple battery options, including lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery packs of different capacities. Depending on the variant, the car can drive around 60 km to 130 km on electric power alone under the CLTC standard. This electric-only capability allows drivers to use the vehicle like a pure electric car for short city commutes while relying on the gasoline engine for longer journeys.

In terms of design, the Geely Galaxy A7 adopts the brand’s “Galaxy Ripple” design language. The front features a sleek look with slim LED headlights connected by a full-width light bar, while the rear also uses a continuous LED taillight design. The car includes stylish alloy wheels, chrome window trim, sculpted body lines, and a subtle rear spoiler that enhance both its sporty appearance and aerodynamic performance.

Inside the cabin, the Galaxy A7 focuses on modern technology and comfort. The interior features a digital instrument cluster, a large central touchscreen infotainment system, and a multifunction steering wheel. The cabin layout includes practical physical controls for climate and media, along with smart connectivity features. With its spacious design, advanced hybrid system, and long driving range, the Geely Galaxy A7 is positioned as a modern and efficient family sedan for the new generation of drivers.Meet the Geely Galaxy A7 – The Hybrid Sedan with Massive Driving Range

Google’s self driving car – Easier and Safer Driving

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Sep 102015

Imagine if everyone typing or speaking to your vehicle’s interface and letting them to drive, while you read a book, take a nap or surf the web. Google’s self driving car- science fiction is coming and they are going to radically change driving experience. Whether it is a visually challenged or aged people they don’t have to give up their independence. Death that dramatically occurs from car accidents will also go down worldwide. Whatever the reason is, this innovation will have a drastic positive impact across globe.

How Google self-driving car works?
The cars have sensor designed to it, which senses objects like cyclist, pedestrians, vehicles and even birds. Software processes all the information to the car so that it can drive easily and safely without getting distracted. It also processes map so that it can determine what street and which lane it is in. The Software is made in such a way that if objects pass around, it can predict what the object will do and apply the next step. For example, if a pedestrian is an object, then it will predict that as crossing the road and apply the next step of slowing down for pedestrian to cross.

What’s in a Google self driving car?
Google has developed a prototype wherein it starts with a push of a button. Instead of steering wheel and pedals it has a sensor and software that handles driving. Top of the car has a sensor that includes radar, lasers and camera that will detect objects in all directions. It has rounded shape in the corner of a car that maximizes the sensor view. Back-up systems for steering, braking, computing and more is designed in the tires of a car. Electric batteries are used to power the vehicle.

The car was tested on modified Lexus SUV’s and prototype (developed from scratch as fully self driven) over one million miles. These cars are currently out on the streets of Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas.

Despite, driving is a complex task to master, but easier for the computer to process all things that is happening on the road at a faster pace than human mind. The things which look chaotic and difficult for a human eye can easily be predictable by the computer.

While there are few more challenges for Google to overcome, such as avoiding potholes, construction area etc. Once these challenges are fixed launch of this car will make a great impact in automobile industry.

Large-scale demonstration operation of green cars in Expo

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Aug 022010

Will 2030 be a brighter life for us with �Zero emission, zero traffic accident, no dependence on petroleum, automatic drive�? Can even blind people also be able to drive cars? All these were shown in SAIC-GM Automotive Exhibit Hall in World Expo — the green cars shown and running in Expo park make us believe that maybe all of them will be true.

I. April 11, the Expo Park public-traffic program was published. In the Expo Park, two bus lines among of the three adopted pure electric buses, and another one used super capacitance bus, meanwhile, two tourist lines were equipped with hydrogen fuel tour bus. After the Expo Park was open, bus lines would be added to 6 from the current 3 ones, and the total running distance reached 19 kilometers.

On the same day, the concept vehicle, “Leaf”, researched and developed independently by SAIC, made its world debut in SAIC-GM Automotive Exhibit Hall in the Expo Park. Besides fresh design, “Leaf”, with a giant “green leaf” on its head, steps across “zero emission” and realizes “negative emission”, and shows people the brighter city traffic life in 20 years.
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Four days later, Shanghai Word Expo science and technology — green cars delivering ceremony was held with the theme “Green commuting, let Expo cleaner”. The delivered 40 different-model clean energy vehicles represent the highest level of current China green cars, most of which were researched and made by SAIC.

May 1, the Expo opened. A pure electric concept car E1 was shown in low-carbon area in China Pavilion. The car is a pure electric car developed independently by SAIC aiming at the international advanced level, whose body design adopts One Box concept and expands its inner space by the greatest extent. Mass production of the car is planed to be achieved at the end of 2012.

Low-carbon Expo

II. The concept, “low-carbon Expo”, was proposed By Shanghai World Expo. Organizer promised that traffic “zero emission” would be implemented in Expo Park and “low emission” around the Park.

More than a thousand green cars run in and out of Expo Park. This is another concentrated display of our green cars technology and achievements after 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and is also the demonstration of the largest-scale green car commercial operation in the world now.

It is reported that those more than thousand vehicles can be divided into three categories including approximate 300 pure electric vehicles (contain super capacitance bus), about 200 fuel cell vehicles and 500 hybrid electric vehicles.

For the three-category green cars demonstrate and run at the same time, the requirements of vehicle safety, reliability and cost in connection with them are high, as well as little time and heavy tasks. At the beginning of this year, reporter had an interview with Chen Hong, president of SAIC. He expressed that as far as technical difficulty, at present, for the automobile companies at home and abroad, there were many technical difficulties in the green car’s industrialization, especially key parts technology, and hard work is necessary to reach the function of traditional fuel vehicle.

Under the support of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information, SAIC makes “battery + electric motor + electric control” and other key parts the breakthrough, speeds up the formation of independent industrial system and industry cluster with leading domestic and international competitiveness.

In order to make the operation in the Park achieve high effective and low consumption object as well as “zero emission”, in addition to the development of more than one thousand green cars, other programs are being implemented synchronously, such as buildings of hydrogen refueling station, charging station, green parking lot and other subsidiary facilities, conceiving of intelligent transportation network, formulation of operation plan and integration of related resources.

There is such an estimation made before Expo Opening that 10,000-ton traditional fuel will be saved, 118-ton hazardous substance and 28,400-ton carbon dioxide emission will be reduced through operation of more than one thousand green cars in the whole Expo period. These figures are really inspiring.

Ma Jing, the general engineer of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information, is always paying close attention to the safety running of green cars. He said that from starting preparation in Expo Park in the last ten-day of April to now, the general running situation of green cars in Expo Park was very well without any safety issue, and survived the test of large passenger flow over 500,000 people in Expo.

According to Wan Gang, minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, green cars in Expo, no matter the most advanced fuel cell vehicles in the world, independently researched and developed by Shanghai, or the pure electric vehicles generalized as national strategy, or the hybrid electric vehicle which has formed the largest scale industrialization in industry promotion, all would become the demonstration of large scale commercial operation of green cars and the new milestone of advanced automotive technology.

The success of large-scale demonstration operation of green cars in Expo will greatly promote the development of green cars of China.