TREE NEWS update: Geely Holding Group has put more than 60,000 methanol electric vehicles into operation, with cumulative mileage exceeding 25 billion kilometers, Chairman Li Shufu said at the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference in Shanghai on October 20. Li said Geely is pushing ahead with electrification and intelligentization, and that the methanol electric route is a sustainable development path the company has been exploring, with methanol able to form a diversified, complementary energy system alongside electricity and hydrogen.
Geely Has Over 60,000 Methanol EVs in Operation, Chairman Li Shufu Says
Geely's methanol route is a reminder that China's new-energy vehicle push is not a single-technology story: methanol is being positioned as a complement to battery and hydrogen, not a rival. The scale cited by Li Shufu matters less as a market share figure than as evidence that an alternative powertrain has moved past pilot stage inside one automaker's fleet. The open question is whether methanol infrastructure and policy support broaden beyond Geely's own vehicles, since a fuel pathway confined to a single manufacturer's ecosystem has limited reach.
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