Geely Automobile Holdings, China’s largest privately-owned carmaker, expects to deliver 10,000 smart electric vehicles (EV) a month to customers in the fourth quarter of this year, benefiting from an accelerated pace of electrification on the mainland’s roads. The number is seen as an important threshold for defining a powerful carmaker in mainland China. An Conghui, chief executive of Zeekr Technology, a unit of Geely that builds premium EVs , told reporters at a virtual briefing on Thursday that sufficient orders for the Zeekr 001 had been secured, and a restored supply chain may help ensure monthly deliveries above the significant…