Geely opened sales of the Galaxy Xingyao 6 EF in China on 3 November 2026. The car is a plug-in hybrid sedan, built to run on electricity, on methanol, or on gasoline. Geely says the two liquid fuels can share one tank in any mix. The company’s English announcement, issued from Shenyang the same day, calls the EF the first production methanol hybrid passenger car. That “first” is Geely’s own description. CnEVPost and CarNewsChina repeated it from the launch. It is not an independent finding.
The prices on Geely Galaxy’s model page are the firm part of the story. A limited-time offer lists 76,800 yuan for the 130 km Luxury EF, 86,800 yuan for the 230 km Premium EF, and 96,800 yuan for the 230 km Flagship EF. The same page prints a guide price of 86,800 to 106,800 yuan. CnEVPost, CarNewsChina, and IT Home, writing from the Shenyang event, published those same yuan bands. Their dollar readings of the 76,800 yuan floor do not agree: CnEVPost converted it to about $11,440, and CarNewsChina to about $11,550. The launch papers do not set a price in dirhams, pounds, or US dollars, and they do not give a date for the UAE, the UK, or the United States.
Geely’s case for the powertrain is cold weather and distance, not a swap for a battery-only car. The English release says the methanol engine reaches 48.15 percent thermal efficiency and can start in temperatures approaching minus 40°C. That is the condition the company points to in northern China, where a battery’s usable range shrinks in winter. A sensor reads the methanol-to-gasoline mix in the tank, and the engine computer changes injection and ignition to suit it. The release also says Geely has worked on methanol since 2005, across production, storage, and refuelling, and that the group has developed an exhaust-carbon capture system meant to feed green methanol. The release presents that capture system as company technology. It is not listed as equipment on the Xingyao 6 EF.
The configuration table on the product page is where the car stops being a slogan. Length, width, and height are 4,806 mm, 1,886 mm, and 1,490 mm. The wheelbase is 2,756 mm, the trunk is 609 litres, and the fuel tank is 70 litres. Drive is to the front wheels through an E-DHT gearbox. The 1.5-litre engine is rated at 93 kW and 170 Nm. The drive motor is rated at 140 kW and 240 Nm. Both batteries are lithium iron phosphate: 17 kWh on the 130 km trim and 28.3 kWh on the 230 km Premium. Geely lists a 30-to-80 percent DC charge in 20 minutes, at up to 35 kW, for the smaller pack, and 15 minutes, at up to 78 kW, for the larger one. Charge-sustaining methanol use is 6.7 litres per 100 km on the 130 km car and 6.9 litres per 100 km on the 230 km Premium. The Flagship column is blank on those powertrain rows. That trim is also badged 230 km, and its listed extras are seats, a digital instrument cluster, and wireless phone charging rather than a third battery size.
Range is quoted two ways, and they should not be folded together. Geely’s English release and the product page both cite up to 230 km of electric range on China’s CLTC cycle, about 1,250 km with a full methanol tank and a charged battery, and about 1,880 km with a full gasoline tank and a charged battery. The product page is stricter at the cheap end: the Luxury trim’s electric range is 130 km, not 230. CnEVPost reported that same split. The configuration table’s top speed is 180 km/h. These figures are the manufacturer’s CLTC tests. They are not WLTP ratings.
Shoppers who already use GetEVCar should keep this sedan separate from the Geely plug-in hybrids that have live pages. The Galaxy Starshine 8 EM-i is a different, larger plug-in hybrid sedan. The Monjaro EM-i is the Geely plug-in hybrid with a UAE price. The Geely brand page and the plug-in hybrid listings show the models a reader can open today. CarNewsChina wrote that the non-methanol Starshine 6 is sold outside China as the Emgrand L EM-i. Geely’s 3 November English release does not put that export name on the methanol EF, so the EF should not be read as an Emgrand already on sale abroad.
One fleet number is older than launch day. CnEVPost reported that Geely Holding chairman Eric Li said in October that more than 6,000 Xingyao 6 EF sedans were already in ride-hailing, taxis, and official fleets, and that a Geely executive put China’s methanol stations above 1,400. Those remarks are not in the 3 November English release. They sit here only as that outlet’s account of an earlier conference.
For readers in the UAE, the UK, and the US, the limit is the market, not the engineering. The 3 November launch is a China price and a China powertrain. It does not say when, or whether, this methanol plug-in hybrid will be offered in those countries. Until a local price exists, the Geely plug-in hybrids with pages — the Starshine 8 EM-i and the UAE Monjaro EM-i — are the ones a shopper can compare.
