⁍ Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) will be able to support small as well as large vehicles.

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⁍ SEA uses more aluminium to make vehicles lighter and a front steering system for steady driving.

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⁍ SEA will use a battery system with a lifespan of 2 million kilometres made by Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd.

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– China’s Geely has just become the latest automaker to get into the electric-vehicle game. The company, which has a 9.7% stake in Daimler, launched its first platform for electric vehicles on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Geely says it spent $2.4 billion on the Sustainable Experience Architecture, which will be used in vehicles from its nine brands, including Geely, Volvo, Smart, and Lynk & Co. The platform uses more aluminum to make vehicles lighter and a front steering system for steady driving. An Conghui, Geely’s president, says the platform will be able to support small as well as large vehicles, including sedans, SUVs, vans, and pickup trucks. Geely, which sold more than 2 million vehicles last year, will develop vehicles based on the platform under nine brands. It’s already building a car plant of its own using the EV architecture, construction documents on Geely’s website showed. Geely and Volvo Cars, which it acquired from Ford Motor Co 10 years ago, have jointly developed the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) and B-segment Modular Architecture (BMA), to allow them to develop, design, and build different types of compact or smaller cars with similar mechanical layouts faster than before—and at lower cost. An said Geely would also develop conventional hybrid vehicles to improve the fuel efficiency of gasoline cars.