Jaecoo GPS tracking - free, independent and private
Jaecoo is the export brand from China's Chery group, and its cars - the Jaecoo 7 and more - are permanently connected to the manufacturer's own cloud. If you would rather decide for yourself who sees where your car is, our free phone-based tracking gives you an independent layer that the maker never touches.
Private by design - no manufacturer cloud, no foreign servers
Modern cars, and especially most Chinese EVs, are permanently connected: the maker's own app knows where your Jaecoo is and routes that data through its cloud, very often on the other side of the world. Our approach is the opposite. Tracking runs entirely on a phone you own, and your location history lives in your own SpySat account. We do not pass it to the car maker's servers and we do not send it to any foreign - including Chinese - data centre. You decide who can see where your car is.
- Independent - works without the manufacturer's app, SIM or subscription.
- Owner-controlled - the location history belongs to your account, not to a vendor.
- No third-country routing - nothing is relayed through foreign (incl. Chinese) clouds.
- Switchable - delete an endpoint and the data stream stops instantly.
The Jaecoo story - a full history
Jaecoo is one of two export-only marques created by the Chinese state-owned group Chery Automobile, which was founded on 18 March 1997 in Wuhu, Anhui province, and has been China's leading passenger-car exporter for more than two decades. The name Jaecoo is a made-up blend of the German word Jager (hunter) and the English word cool, meant to signal a rugged yet modern character. The brand was formally announced in April 2023 in Wuhu and made its world debut the same month at the Auto Shanghai 2023 show.
Jaecoo is sold in tandem with its sister brand Omoda under the combined "Omoda & Jaecoo" structure. Omoda targets younger urban buyers with futuristic coupe-crossovers, while Jaecoo takes the more mature "urban off-road" position with a classic, boxy silhouette. Because Chery's older image abroad was tied to budget 2000s cars, Jaecoo was deliberately kept off the Chinese home market and given a new, western-sounding name to compete in the "accessible premium" segment.
Timeline
- April 2023 - brand launched in Wuhu and unveiled at Auto Shanghai with the compact Jaecoo 7 (J7) and the flagship Jaecoo 8 (J8), plus the ARDIS all-wheel-drive system.
- September 2023 - first market launch worldwide: the Jaecoo 7 goes on sale in Russia.
- October/November 2023 - debut in the Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia) and South Africa.
- February 2024 - the Western European push begins with the inauguration of Omoda & Jaecoo in Madrid, Spain.
- April 2024 - Chery signs a joint venture with Spain's EV Motors on 19 April to revive the former Nissan plant in the Zona Franca of Barcelona ("In Europe, for Europe"); SHS plug-in hybrid versions of the J7 and J8 debut at the Beijing show.
- June 2024 - Omoda & Jaecoo announce their entry into Poland at a Warsaw press conference.
- July 2024 - Southeast Asia expansion: sales start in Malaysia with CKD assembly in Shah Alam.
- September 2024 - Jaecoo 7 market launch in Toledo, Spain (17 September) and in Poland (27 September).
- October 2024 - global debut of the third model, the Jaecoo 5, at the O&J International User Summit in Wuhu (21 October).
- November 2024 - the first series car rolls off the Barcelona line (23 November).
- December 2024 - the Jaecoo 7 PHEV (SHS) earns five stars from both Euro NCAP and ANCAP.
- January 2025 - Jaecoo sales begin in the UK with the Jaecoo 7 in petrol and plug-in hybrid form.
- May 2025 - Jaecoo 7 launched in Australia with a seven-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.
- October 2025 - the Jaecoo 5 launches in Poland (3 October); UK Jaecoo 7 sales pass 26,000 in the first year.
- January 2026 - deliveries of the fully electric Jaecoo 5 EV and Jaecoo 6 (J6 BEV) begin in Australia, Asia and selected European markets.
- February/April 2026 - European launch and pre-sales of the flagship Jaecoo 8 Super Hybrid (PHEV) in Poland, Spain and Italy.
- March 2026 - the Jaecoo 7 becomes the best-selling new car in the UK during the spring plate-change month.
- May/July 2026 - the Jaecoo 8 reaches the UK (May) with regular customer deliveries from July 2026.
- August 2026 - Omoda & Jaecoo pass 100,000 UK registrations in under 24 months on the market.
- September 2026 - a record month: O&J take a 6.37% UK market share with the Jaecoo 7 again the UK's best-selling car, and global O&J sales reach 73,421 units (up 123% year on year), close to 600,000 year to date.
Model line-up
- Jaecoo 5 (from 2024/25) - compact B+/C crossover, 4380 mm; 1.6 T-GDI petrol (about 147 hp, 275 Nm, 7DCT, FWD), classic hybrid, or a fully electric version with a roughly 60-61 kWh LFP battery and 150 kW (204 hp) motor.
- Jaecoo 7 / J7 (from 2023) - the C-segment core of the range, 4500 mm; 1.6 T-GDI petrol (147 hp in Europe) with FWD or ARDIS AWD, or the SHS plug-in hybrid with an 18.3 kWh LFP battery, up to roughly 90-106 km of electric range and DC fast charging plus V2L.
- Jaecoo 8 / J8 (from 2023/24, Europe 2025/26) - flagship D/E SUV, 4820 mm, five, six or seven seats; 2.0 T-GDI (about 249-261 hp) or a three-motor SHS PHEV with over 445 kW (600+ hp).
- Jaecoo 6 / J6 (from 2024) - boxy electric off-roader (export version of the Chery iCAR 03), rear-wheel drive about 184 hp or dual-motor AWD about 279 hp.
Positioning
Jaecoo is built on a "more for less" promise: generous standard equipment (surround cameras, large screens on a Snapdragon 8155 chip, heated and ventilated seats, Sony audio, panoramic roof and level-2 driver aids) and an unusually long warranty - seven years or 150,000 km in Europe, seven years with no mileage cap in Australia, and eight years or 160,000 km on the traction battery. Its main rivals are the Toyota RAV4, Kia Sportage, Hyundai Tucson, Nissan Qashqai and Volkswagen Tiguan, with the smaller 5 fighting the Kia Niro, Hyundai Kona, Skoda Karoq and Dacia Duster.
