Geely EX5 — A New Owner’s Perspective

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Final Up to date on: sixth Could 2025, 12:26 am

The Geely EX5 is making waves within the Australian electrical automobile market. Over 1000 have been ordered up to now couple of months. Majella and I acquired to take part in a pre-launch viewing two months in the past. At the moment, not all of the specs and even the worth have been accessible. Now we all know it’s priced and specced to promote. The Geely EX5 is a good value-for-money proposition. A latest purchaser, Karen Yates, agreed to share her expertise with me. Listed here are her solutions to my questions. Firstly, the shopping for expertise:

“I beforehand had an MG HS, so I went to MG, but in addition knew BYD have been competitively priced so appeared on the BYD Dolphin first. And take a look at drove each. I made a decision the Dolphin was too small, as I used to be used to having the small SUV. So, then I appeared into the Atto 3, and I actually preferred it too. Finances clever although I might have wanted the Important variant, and its vary was solely 410 km. (It was too costly for the vary supplied.) I additionally wasn’t that thrilled with the BYD gross sales individual, he drove half of the best way, and after we acquired again was like ‘so have we got a deal’ when no numbers or something have been mentioned, and once I stated ‘any movement on price?’ he responded ‘one country one price,’ and I used to be like, ‘whatever mate,’ as he didn’t even say ‘but we will look after you with your trade-in or mats’ or something! They did have coke and popcorn tho! haha.

“The MG4 range and small screen didn’t excite me for the price.”

“I received ads for the Geely and thought ‘wow, worth looking into with the launch offer.’ I emailed on the weekend and the sales rep rang me first thing. When I test drove, he was friendly and knowledgeable about the car. I was then told if I wanted it, they could have me in it by the Thursday (two days later), so given the look of the car (I like this look), the price, and the car’s features, I was sold. To be honest, there was also another sales guy and we all just had a great friendly banter. I asked for car mats, and better price on my trade-in. They had no mats and wouldn’t budge on the trade price, but knocked off $440 from the car price and said there was a gift box (which was an umbrella and a gorgeous Fresko-insulated Geely branded coffee cup). They made it feel easy and like I was important and getting a good deal…..so great salesmen I guess!!”

The beneficiant Geely launch provide — $44,490 driveaway for the bottom mannequin, 1 yr free charging at Evie cost stations, 3 years free servicing, a free 7 kW wall charger, and free color alternative — inspired Karen to go forward with the deal. To not point out supply inside 3 days! GiGi (the title of her automotive) comes with a 7-year guarantee on the automotive, and eight on the battery. Seven years of roadside help is included.

Karen instructed me that she went for a drive in a pal’s Tesla and that’s what impressed her to have a look at an EV to exchange her petrol MG. “Going for a drive in her Tesla made me start thinking about the pick-up of an electric car, and to be honest, I was a bit sick of paying for petrol. I didn’t consider a Tesla (although did briefly look at second hand prices). Overall, I don’t like the shape of the Model Y. I say it has a big Bum, lol. And the Model 3 is too expensive. Plus, I also don’t like the overly minimalist interior. I still wanted to feel like I was in a car.”

And on to the all-important query of charging. “The car came with a charger as part of the launch offer. Don’t ask me anything about it, as I have no idea! But it arrives tomorrow, so instead I charged at the free Evie station whilst I waited for the DEPOW charger (just a brand). I picked it because it was reasonably priced ($180) and had a 60 day money back guarantee plus 3 year warranty.”

Karen has already carried out a few 400 km street journeys in her new Geely, GiGi. She tells me about her first one — I requested her if she was nervous: “I drove to Bendigo last weekend after having the car less than 24 hours. I was excited to drive it to Bendigo, and wasn’t overly nervous, because I planned to charge it at the Evie station at the gallery I was attending. This proved problematic because I didn’t think it was Evie, so went to a different one. It took a bit of working out how to connect it up. The only other issue is that it was terrible rain and I wasn’t sure how to use the wipers. I think I am still getting used to the car, but feel comfortable in it with the general features. The biggest difference is you definitely have to plan things out a bit more. Petrol is so much more readily available. The venue we went to didn’t have a charging station, which meant we had to stop for 20 minutes to get enough to go home. Moving forward I will be able to suggest the venue perhaps based on charging availability.”

On the journey to Bendigo, the automotive used 270 km of vary to do the 200 km journey — one other factor that EV drivers have needed to alter to. “The charging is easy now I know what I’m doing.” We’ve all been by means of that. Nicely carried out, Karen! There’s nonetheless tons to study — about over-the-air updates and regen braking, and all these apps!

This final weekend, Karen as soon as once more visited Bendigo for a member of the family’s eightieth birthday The household on the birthday celebration all needed to have a look at the Geely, and beloved it. I feel the entire electrical factor pursuits folks. There have been after all the “hope it doesn’t catch fire” jokes.

Karen simply laughed alongside along with her household. I steered Karen level her family and friends in the direction of the EVFireSafe website.

It seems to be like pleasant salespeople and worth for cash win out over popcorn and coke. In the long run, lot of individuals taking part within the rEVolution are searching for worth for cash. For the hundreds who’re getting right into a Geely EX5, and others, the long run is vivid and electrical. Take a look at Geely’s cheeky ad here.