The Geely Galaxy E5 is a 5-door crossover SUV from Geely, built from 2024, in the decade the industry is turning electric.
The background
The Geely EX5, or the Geely Galaxy E5 (Chinese: 吉利银河E5; pinyin: Jílì Yínhé E5) in China, is a battery electric compact SUV produced and manufactured by the Chinese automaker Geely Auto since 2024 and co-developed with Malaysian automaker Proton. Debuting in May 2024, it is the second battery electric vehicle within the company's Galaxy product line after the Geely Galaxy E8 sedan.
It is the first vehicle to be built on Geely's Global Intelligent New Energy Architecture (GEA) platform, a derivative of the company's self-developed Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA). A plug-in hybrid version of the car, the Geely Galaxy Starship 7, was made available since October 2024, featuring a revised styling while retaining some body panels from the former. Proton, which has been a subsidiary of Geely since 2017, also marketed and sold the vehicle as the Proton eMas 7 (stylised as e.MAS 7) in Malaysia and select markets since December 2024, as the brand's first battery electric vehicle.
The engineering
160 kW is the published figure. It weighs 1615-1740 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 99 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. The wheelbase is 2750 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at ubl | China: Guiyang, Guizhou | Belarus: Barysaw (BelGee) | Indonesia: Purwakarta, West Java ( ) | Malaysia: Proton City, Tanjong Malim, Perak ( ). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Kia EV6, the Kia EV3, the Dongfeng eπ 007 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Geely stablemates include the Geely GE and the Geely Yuanjing X6.