BYD ATTO 3 vs Geely EX5

The BYD ATTO 3 costs £5,000 more than the Geely EX5. For that premium it adds 62 miles more WLTP range, 120 kW faster peak rapid charging and 70 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the BYD ATTO 3 comes out ahead overall.

The Geely EX5 is £5,000 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £160 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Geely EX5 comes out roughly £4,920 cheaper overall. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 263 miles for the BYD ATTO 3 and 198 miles for the Geely EX5 - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The BYD ATTO 3 goes roughly 66 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 35 minutes in the BYD ATTO 3 and 20 in the Geely EX5, so the Geely EX5 loses less time at each stop. So the BYD ATTO 3 stops less often while the Geely EX5 stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 26 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 525 mm of total clearance for the BYD ATTO 3 and about 499 mm of total clearance for the Geely EX5. The BYD ATTO 3 also turns in a 0.4 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the BYD ATTO 3 and 90% for the Geely EX5. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use LFP-type cells, which are happy charged to 100% every day. Both batteries carry a 8-year manufacturer warranty.