Geely EX5 vs Omoda E5

The Omoda E5 is £925 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £176 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Omoda E5 comes out roughly £925 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 198 miles for the Geely EX5 and 194 miles for the Omoda E5 - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 20 minutes in the Geely EX5 and 28 in the Omoda E5, so the Geely EX5 loses less time at each stop.

The Omoda E5 is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 71 mm narrower than the Geely EX5. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 570 mm of total clearance for the Omoda E5 and about 499 mm of total clearance for the Geely EX5.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the Geely EX5 and 90% for the Omoda E5. 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.