Britain’s cheap-hatch contest just got a second timed lap. A day after Hyundai opened IONIQ 3 reservations from £22,245, the first UK road impressions of Geely’s EX2 have landed — and authorised retailers are now printing a late-August delivery window for a car that undercuts that Hyundai by more than a thousand pounds at the kerb.
Geely Auto UK’s own July price list, independently restated by Fleet News, is unchanged: Pro £20,990, Max £23,490, Ultra £25,490, all on-the-road. That is not a new discount. What is new is driver copy. Regit’s 19 August Cotswolds first drive is the first independent UK seat time we can cite, and two Geely retailers — Glyn Hopkin and Green 4 Geely — now tell customers first deliveries start on 25 August 2026. That date is not in Geely’s 17 July media release, so treat it as a dealer window, not a manufacturer on-sale day.
For shoppers already on GetEVCar, the EX2 is the small hatch sibling to the Geely EX5 (2025) SUV we index under the Geely brand. The EX5 page currently shows UAE availability. The EX2 story is a UK one: a B-segment electric hatchback on Geely’s GEA platform, rear-wheel drive, three trims, two batteries.
The official powertrain split is simple, and Fleet News reprints the same numbers. Pro uses a 35 kWh pack and a 60 kW motor. Geely’s July notes list 156 miles of WLTP range for that car; the same release’s summary bullet says 155, which is the figure Fleet News printed. Use 156 miles as the combined WLTP line and 155 as headline rounding. Max and Ultra step up to 47 kWh and 85 kW, with a shared 214-mile WLTP claim. Every EX2 DC-charges at up to 80 kW and AC-charges at 6.6 kW. That is slow next to the IONIQ 3’s ~110–119 kW DC peak, and it is the trade-off for the price cut.
- EX2 Pro — £20,990 OTR, 35 kWh, 60 kW, 156 miles WLTP (155 in some headlines)
- EX2 Max — £23,490 OTR, 47 kWh, 85 kW, 214 miles WLTP
- EX2 Ultra — £25,490 OTR, 47 kWh, 85 kW, 214 miles WLTP
That ladder sits under yesterday’s Hyundai IONIQ 3 (2026) Advance 42 kWh at £22,245, and well under the IONIQ 3’s 61 kWh rungs. Range is the other axis: even the long-range EX2’s 214 miles is short of the IONIQ 3 Advance 61 kWh’s expected 308. If the job is a second car, a school run, or a first EV with a home socket, the Geely’s price-to-kit ratio is the pitch. If the job is a 250-mile motorway week, the Hyundai’s bigger pack is the one the numbers favour. Fleet News also names the Renault 5 and the BYD Dolphin Surf (2025) as segment rivals. Geely Auto UK product manager Jennifer Wise, speaking to Regit, called the Renault 5 “the more dominant player” in the class. We do not have a Renault 5 model page yet, so that comparison stays qualitative.
What the first drive adds — and what it cannot — is worth separating. Regit’s tester drove the Ultra, quoted 11.5 seconds to 62 mph and an 80 mph top speed, and reported a 30–80% DC top-up in about 25 minutes on a suitably powerful post. Those three figures are single-source road-test claims, not Geely’s July spec sheet. Official kit we can dual-source: a 375-litre boot plus a 70-litre frunk (Fleet News and the first drive agree), a 14.6-inch centre screen and 8.8-inch cluster from Pro up, V2L as standard, and seven airbags plus adaptive cruise, autonomous emergency braking, lane keep, blind-spot, rear cross-traffic, and driver monitoring across the range. Ultra is the one with the 360-degree camera, heated front seats and wheel, power tailgate, and two-tone paint. An optional white interior is £200.
Ownership small print is one of the clearer dual-sourced items. Fleet News and Wise both describe an eight-year / 125,000-mile warranty covering the car and the battery, with servicing every two years, aligned with the EX5. That is useful next to the EX5 page we already publish, because it means the hatch is not a one-off aftersales island if you already know the SUV.
Context for UK hatch shoppers: the EX2 is the third Geely Auto UK model after the EX5 and the Starray EM-i plug-in hybrid. In China the same car is the Xingyuan, which was among the country’s best-sellers in 2025 — a claim Geely’s UK retailers repeat, and which is about volume at home, not a UK residual forecast. Do not read a Shanghai sales chart as a Birmingham resale guide.
What is not confirmed: a manufacturer-issued UK first-delivery date (retailers say 25 August; Geely’s July paper does not), Electric Car Grant status (unlike the IONIQ 3, nobody is publishing a Geely “reservation saving” while a grant is assessed), and real-world range on UK A-roads in winter. Prices, WLTP, and the 80 kW DC cap are the settled facts. First-drive dynamics and the late-August dealer window are the new ones.
Sources: Geely Auto UK media release, 17 July 2026; Fleet News; Regit first drive, 19 August 2026; Glyn Hopkin Geely and Green 4 Geely retailer pages for the 25 August delivery window. OTR prices and WLTP ranges are manufacturer figures; 0–62 mph, top speed, and the 30–80% charge time are from a single first drive.
