Zeekr had been breaking its own sales records for six consecutive months. October finally brought that run to an end, although the numbers hardly suggest that buyers are losing interest in the Chinese premium brand.
The company delivered 32,483 vehicles last month.
That’s 51.6 percent more than in October 2025, when deliveries stood at 21,423. Compared with September, however, sales fell by 12.7 percent. The previous month had brought a record 37,216 deliveries.
It’s the first monthly decline since January.
The difference matters because Zeekr had spent much of 2026 growing at an unusually fast pace. Every month from February through September brought higher deliveries than the one before it.
October broke that pattern.
Still, 32,483 vehicles represent the brand’s sixth-best monthly performance since deliveries began in 2021. That’s hardly a disastrous result, especially considering where Zeekr stood just a year ago.
The figures for the first ten months are even more revealing.
Between January and October, Zeekr delivered 320,887 vehicles, an increase of 94.4 percent over the same period in 2025. In other words, the brand has almost doubled its sales this year.
And another milestone is approaching.
Since its first customer deliveries in 2021, Zeekr has handed over 963,776 vehicles worldwide. It now needs another 36,224 to reach one million.
Meanwhile, the company is preparing new products.
An updated Zeekr 7X is scheduled to arrive during the fourth quarter of 2026, while a revised 001 shooting brake is planned for early 2027. Both models are important to a brand trying to maintain momentum in China’s crowded premium-car market.
Europe is becoming increasingly important, too.
At the Paris Motor Show in October, Zeekr presented its revised 7X and the larger 9X. The company also reported that European deliveries between January and September had tripled compared with the same period last year.
Zeekr now operates in 22 European markets.
Germany is among its newer destinations, and the company plans to expand its European dealer network to 200 locations before the end of 2026. Customer deliveries of the 9X in Europe are scheduled to begin in January 2027.
Australia is also on the agenda, with the electric 007 GT shooting brake expected to arrive there as the Zeekr 7GT.
October’s decline interrupts an impressive sequence, but it doesn’t erase the progress made during the previous nine months. The more interesting question is whether Zeekr can maintain that pace as its international operations grow.