On May 9, the world's new-generation luxury mid-to-high-end electric hybrid sedan — Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 — was officially launched. The new car offers 2 versions with the extreme-performance Thor EM-P and 3 versions with the extreme-energy-saving Thor EM-i; all 5 of these versions come standard with Qianli Haohan intelligent safety assisted driving. At the same time, to meet users' demand for freely choosing assisted intelligent driving, 2 Thor EM-i versions are offered with standard basic assisted driving. The limited-time launch price of Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is 115,800 to 155,800 yuan (only for users who complete a large deposit and lock the order before June 30, 2025, to enjoy the limited-time launch price), and generous limited-time car purchase benefits are also offered to users.
As the first mid-to-high-end electric hybrid sedan of the Geely Galaxy brand, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8, with the stance of "flagship from the start," redefines the new standard for mid-to-high-end electric hybrid sedans across five major dimensions: "safety flagship, aesthetics flagship, space flagship, performance flagship, and technology flagship," satisfying mid-to-high-end sedan users' demand to "have it all" and promoting the equalization of luxury for everyone.
As of April 30, cumulative sales of Geely Galaxy have exceeded 930,000 units and are expected to reach cumulative sales of one million within May. From the first car rolling off the line on April 24, 2023, to the delivery of one million vehicles, Geely Galaxy took only 25 months, becoming the fastest new energy brand to reach one million in sales. In addition, from January to April 2025, Geely Galaxy sales have exceeded 356,000 units, making the annual sales target of one million almost a foregone conclusion. The "flagship from the start" Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 will shoulder the important task of tapping new market growth points and elevating the Geely Galaxy brand's momentum at the critical moment when Geely Galaxy is entering a period of accelerated development.
Defining a safety exemplar with standards beyond the norm, shaping a new benchmark for flagship safety in luxury sedans
Relying on Geely's industry-leading safety system capabilities, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 creates a "safety flagship" for users. It is built on an original luxury electric hybrid architecture and adopts technologies such as a star-armor cage body, an integrated hot-formed boron steel door ring, an "L-shaped" all-aluminum anti-collision beam, a "clover" force-dissipation structural design, and a "ten-cell" aluminum alloy anti-collision side sill, giving the vehicle industry-leading overall safety performance.
At the same time, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is equipped with the Aegis battery safety system, adopting the industry's first "oil, electricity, and gas isolation design," a "six-horizontal, four-vertical" oil-electricity safety cabin, and "bottom three-level stepped protection," ensuring the safety of oil-electricity coexistence.
In addition, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is also equipped with the only EMA high-speed emergency steering assist system in its class, which can assist the driver in steering avoidance at speeds up to 120 km/h, and applies Geely's exclusive power redundancy patented technology and five-level battery redundancy algorithm, truly solving the problem of EV limitations.
By virtue of industry-leading performance in active and passive safety, architecture safety, intelligent safety, power safety, and battery safety, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 has become a new safety benchmark in the mid-to-high-end sedan market.
Decoding a design revolution with Chinese originality and Eastern wisdom, shaping a new benchmark for luxury sedan aesthetics
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 meets users' needs with original Chinese-style luxury styling design and, through meticulous craftsmanship in details such as "one corner, one pillar, one color," has become a well-deserved "aesthetics flagship" in its segment.
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 has a body length of over 5 meters and, with a golden-ratio visual center, a 0.46 wheel-height ratio, and a 4.25 wheelbase-to-wheel-diameter ratio, creates an elegant and imposing luxury carriage stance. Its front bumper adopts a unique "Chinese R angle" — a curvature of 40.8 — to create a "good Chinese face" that conforms to Chinese aesthetics of "three facial proportions and five facial features" and "four highs and three lows"; the most beautiful D-pillar draws inspiration from the "West Lake Broken Bridge," creating a transition with a natural curvature of 0.07 and a 28° fastback silhouette, combined with a floor lowered by 20 mm, simultaneously achieving the class-leading front and rear vertical headroom and a nimble, elegant fastback shape.
In addition, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 offers six body colors: Jihai Blue, Tianji White, Jianzhan Black, Dianluo Silver, Guomo Gray, and Shanhe Green. Among them, the "Jihai Blue" body color originates from the national treasure "Ji Blue Glaze Plum Vase" in the Palace Museum, with a clear coat layer of only 55 microns, offering a visual effect of rich glaze color and solid texture. In sunlight, one can see the dazzling translucence of the ji blue glaze; under cloudy gray tones, it presents a completely different "silk texture," smooth and lustrous.
With its original upright and imposing, fashionable and elegant styling and texture, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is both good-looking and enduringly attractive, setting a new aesthetic benchmark in the mid-to-high-end sedan market that captivates at first glance.
Elevating spatial experience through scenario perception, creating a new benchmark for luxury sedan comfort
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is equipped with the only VIP electric executive seat in its class, the only 23-speaker in-car audio system in its class, and class-leading comfort experience, making luxury travel experience a "standard feature" of mid-to-high-end sedans.
The "first-class cabin cotton candy SPA seats" installed throughout Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 adopt Geely's self-developed 7-layer structural design. The "skin-contact layer" is soft, skin-friendly, wear-resistant, clean without leaving marks, and full of detail. The "heating layer" fully cares for vulnerable cold areas such as the hips and legs, and can maintain a constant temperature at all times, most suitable for elderly people or female friends whose waists and legs are sensitive to cold. The "zero-pressure comfort layer" uses the only 25 mm slow-rebound foam in its class, instantly conforming softly to the body's curves and also providing support for users' waist, neck, and other fatigue-prone areas, making every seat a "center seat."
The second-row only VIP electric executive seat in its class has a seat cushion reaching the class-longest 536 mm, combined with the class-longest 100 mm sliding distance and the class-widest 350 mm seat cushion width, providing users with more ample stretching space. Even a 1.8-meter-tall person can enjoy the freedom to cross their legs, and whether with a prime minister's belly or an eight-pack abs physique, everyone can have the most comfortable experience. In addition, there is the only ventilation and heating in its class, 8-point SPA massage, rear privacy glass, an independent control panel, and a front passenger "boss button," jointly creating a million-level executive space exclusively for the rear row. Fold the front passenger seat flat, and it integrates with the rear seats; activate front and rear seat massage, and it instantly becomes a luxury massage bed. The all-around lie-flat seats equipped on Geely Galaxy Starshine 8, the only ones in its class under 500,000 yuan, let users open the door to discuss business and close the door for a SPA.
The 23-speaker Flyme Sound Boundless Sound audio system equipped on Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 has the class-largest 2000 W amplifier power, class-leading 7.1.4 panoramic sound layout, and innovatively applied AI tuning master technology, providing four major virtual venue sound effects: recording studio, concert hall, opera house, and concert, building an in-car spherical sound field beyond luxury cars.
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 also uses suede wrapping on the headliner, A-pillars, B-pillars, and even the sun visors, with an overall soft-touch coverage rate of 85%. It also obtained the zero-formaldehyde certification certificate from CATARC, making the in-car environment safer.
In terms of space utilization, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 has the class-largest 405 L trunk, capable of holding five 20-inch suitcases, and comes standard with 30 treasure storage spaces in the car, making storage extremely convenient — able to hold distant journeys and carry along your concerns.
In the mid-to-high-end sedan market, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is the first to create a luxury-car-level private comfort experience, setting a new benchmark for cabin and spatial experience.
Using the Thor super electric hybrid to overturn traditional perceptions, establishing a new benchmark for energy efficiency and performance in 5-meter luxury mid-to-high-end family sedans
As the first mid-to-high-end sedan with the hard-core strength of "5316" (5-meter-class flagship size, 3-liter-class fuel consumption, and over 1,600 km range), Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 offers a choice of two Thor super electric hybrid powertrains.
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 equipped with the Thor EM-P super electric hybrid has a golden hybrid powertrain combination of 1.5TD + DHT Evo, with combined torque reaching the class-first 605 N·m and a 0-100 km/h acceleration time of only 6.49 s, class-leading. Among them, the 1.5TD hybrid dedicated engine has a maximum power of 120 kW and a maximum torque of 255 N·m, class-first in power; the DHT Evo hybrid dedicated electric drive motor efficiency reaches an industry-leading 97.6%, with the P3 motor having 160 kW power and 350 N·m torque, the class-largest. This "golden powertrain combination" has also passed CATARC's 500,000-kilometer equivalent durability mileage verification, with class-first reliability.
The versions equipped with the Thor EM-i super electric hybrid apply the industry-first Xingrui AI cloud power and more than 200 energy-saving technologies across 7 major dimensions, achieving 3.36 L fuel consumption per 100 km at low state of charge with only a 55 L fuel tank. Media实测 comprehensive range far exceeded 1,600 km, and fuel consumption per 100 km with the air conditioning on was only 2.9 L.
In terms of driving control, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 comes standard across the range with a rear five-link suspension and FSD variable damping adaptive suspension, which can actively adjust suspension softness and hardness on bumpy roads. With Geely's exclusive AI precise tuning technology, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 has luxury-car-level driving stability, with a moose test result of 80 km/h, class-first, and a 100-0 km/h braking distance of 34.5 meters, the shortest in its class.
Fast, economical, and stable to drive, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 simultaneously provides mid-to-high-end sedan users with abundant power, extreme energy efficiency, and luxury-car-level driving stability, allowing users to "have both the fish and the bear's paw," establishing a new benchmark for energy efficiency and performance.
Using a technological revolution to interpret the luxury cabin, establishing a new benchmark for luxury sedan technology
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 is equipped with the Qianli Haohan intelligent safety assisted driving system, which can realize 0–150 km/h highway and elevated-road NOA assisted driving. Facing users' pain point that "large cars are hard to park," Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 can realize APA intelligent parking assistance covering more than 300 types of complex parking spaces, including dead-end spaces, extremely dimly lit spaces, and extremely narrow spaces, with an average parking time of less than 35 s and a parking success rate of over 99%. Whether users are novices or veterans, they are all parking experts.
In dimly lit parking spaces, based on AI intelligent algorithms, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 can greatly improve environmental recognition capability and increase the recognition accuracy of key information such as parking space lines and obstacles, improving safety while providing one-stop parking. In extremely narrow parking spaces prone to scraping and difficult for getting out of the car, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 can achieve extreme parking-in with a minimum unilateral distance of 27.5 cm, less than the length of a bottle of mineral water. Eliminating extreme maneuvers and leaving only extreme peace of mind, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 lets users park without embarrassment and get out more calmly.
To fully meet users' differentiated needs, Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 also offers versions equipped with "basic assisted driving" functions, returning the choice to users. These are equipped with "basic assisted driving" functions including ICC intelligent cruise assist and AEB automatic emergency braking assist.
Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 comes standard with the Galaxy Flyme Auto intelligent cockpit system and is equipped with the latest AutoNavi 750 navigation version, which can connect with the class-largest 25.6-inch AR-HUD for real-time data flow and information transfer. The inclusion of "Boundless Space" and deep integration with the Deepseek large model further enable Flyme Auto to completely solve ecosystem anxiety, with operation as simple as a mobile phone, and support users in realizing complex vehicle control by voice.
Starshine 8 not only satisfies users' desire for a large car, but also solves the real pain point of "difficult parking." It also provides an extreme experience in intelligent assisted driving, intelligent cockpit, and other aspects that users find useful and love to use, establishing a new benchmark for luxury sedan technology.
Since its release, Geely Galaxy has been committed to practicing the mission of "building intelligent premium cars for everyone" with Safety Galaxy, Quality Galaxy, and Technology Galaxy, providing users with high-quality, affordable, and beyond-expectation good products in every mainstream new energy segment. Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 will stand at a new starting point and, with high value, join hands with more mid-to-high-end sedan users to journey together toward a better life.
