There’s A NEW Electric Car Brand That Deserves Your Attention…
So you know how you have your favorite pen at home perhaps it’s a pen it just does its job it’s a very cheap one that you can easily replace but you always buy the same one because it’s reliable you know what it does and it just does
That job really really well it’s got one job to do that’s to right and the emoda 5 is very much like that pen I want to introduce you to a new EV one that could very well become a big threat to byd and M G’s International dominance and it’s by a brand called
Cherry and this is their new sub brand the emoda E5 but what I want to know is could this very well be your new affordable EV is this just a pretender or is it a true contender in the market well let’s find out welcome to the fully charged
Show like fully charged then you’ll love our fun-packed everything electric Expos around the world next up up we’re in London and Harriet remember energy and transport professionals Go free on the first day so you may have heard of om moda’s parent company Cherry they’re one of the
Biggest auto makers in China in fact last year they produced 13 million cars they’ve got a joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover so they know what they’re doing and then they’ve been exporting overseas since 2001 one of the very first companies to do it so this is
Their new e V push into overseas markets and I think it might be a real threat to the likes of the bys MGS and Kia e neros however I usually say these videos and I say it’s going to come out in 18 months to 2 years not with this one it’s
On the market right Now if I come to the front end of the emoda E5 I can see a lot of inspiration borrowed from other car makers for example I see a lot of lucid air I see a little bit of Neo little bit of xang and even a Sprinkle of Kia as well but it’s
Not a bad thing for it I think it’s quite a striking looking car quite a big statement from cherry or Roda for their first EV now they say this car is inspired by Star Trek and full of sports not really sure what that means but it’s quite futuristic looking in this studio
Setting oh one other thing I want to say is that I think both byd and amoda need to go to a branding Camp don’t need to put your logo so big on the front a little bit of subtlety would be quite nice coming around the side there’s not
Much in the way of features around here in terms of looks it’s a small crossover but it does have 18in wheels and these although they seem a bit small are actually better for your efficiency and these hub caps or Wheels alloy wheels they’re to help with the slipperiness
Through the air these are very aerodynamic so I’m told helping you get more range from your battery It’s got a good feeling that that is your charging port AC DC charger inside there but what I’m always blathering on about is this trickle down effect of all these seemingly luxury features which was not standard on a car just a few years ago which is now on cars like this
This has vtl as standard up to 3.3 KW of energy can be taken back out of the car to charge your rice cooker or your oven or whatever you need to charge that’s really good it’s as standard on this car I love things like that the other thing
Which is really important to mention is safety you’ll probably think maybe it’s compromised on safety at this price point for this car absolutely not it’s got a Euro five-star endcap rating 380 l in here and you even get a little bit more space in here probably about
Another 2 lers in there there’s also a very small Frank at the front that has also about another two lers would only fit your charging cable and maybe a bottle of drink now if you fold down these back seats you’ll get an extra well you get a total of 175 L of
Space I’m not going to do the calculation here so in this area it does very Well This is a complete and utter disaster it’s got no scissor doors it’s got no guitar strings in the door panels what’s going on omoda the good thing is they haven’t let their designers go for a champagne lunch before designing the interior and in fact this is a real highlight of this
Car yes it’s not the most premium of materials but the feeling the fit and finish of what is here now is actually really good aota 5 customers have a choice of three interior colors we got this rather fetching kind of navy blue in here against this white which I
Really really like there’s no piano black fantastic low washer fluid level please refill soon good warning I’ve got a heads up display as standard I’ve got this curved screen in front of me 12 in I think I’ve got Apple carplay it’s very responsive great touch buttons down here
For my heating controls yes yes omoda you got it right you’ve got the right mixture of small screen and buttons buttons for my AC buttons for my modes now phone charging I do have phone charging wireless is standard up to 50 WS it’s got its own cooling fan just in
Case you need to cool down your overheating phone they’ve packed in so much in here just things that people need and things that people want rather than frippery and pointless features this car is really good and actually quite quite surprising I was not expecting this at all now this is not a
Cavern of luxuriousness in the back here but I do have plenty of leg room plenty of head room even space for my bubbles so that’s good news now the other thing is the fixture and fittings in here are just as good at as the front but there’s
One feature which is very very important and that I want to highlight to you right now which is seat heaters rear seat heaters as standard in the back with buttons no screen push one of those I get a nice warm bum on this freezing cold day when I’m suffering from a cold
Also got cup holders I can put my medicine in there later and luxuriously sit in here just look out the window I suppose the other thing is it does feel a little bit cramped because there’s only one sunroof and it’s at the front there’s no rear sunroof so the back
Starts to feel a little bit like this and uh it’s not a nice feeling but overall it doesn’t feel that bad so this is a car which brings me down from the he highs of 45 in screens and ridiculous self-driving capability this is much more what I want from a car and
What probably most people want from a car rather than all this silly frippery that we don’t really need the thing is what I find difficult to understand is how Legacy Al can’t build something like this now there’s one secret about this car which I should probably tell you the batteries
In this car are byd blade batteries so you know you got the safety and the functionality so it gives an efficiency of 15.5 kwhs per 100 km so pretty efficient batteries in this slippery body and that’s bogging telling me there’s a van truck very close to us I
Can see myself that’s a little bit irritating ating perhaps you can turn it off I haven’t been able to find it in the menu just yet this is not a car that begs you to stamp on the throttle because it’s only got 150 KW of max power from the motor got fairly
Respectable over 400 km of wltp range but this is you know this is your everyday car this what the Nissan it’s what Nissan should have built as the next Leaf this is the next Nissan Leaf or the next VW Golf omoda have done it before them and that’s why Legacy auto
Has to be very Careful you know what it’s actually okay if a car doesn’t set your pants on fire when you drive it if it doesn’t have the latest headline grabbing features in fact this is more car than any of us will ever need but if you want to see another car which I think was very
Impressive for the price you can have a look at my byd AT3 review over here
Elliot spends the day with the New Chery Omoda E5: A new electric crossover which arrives in the UK in a matter of weeks. But who on Earth is Chery, and why is this car worth your attention?
The Chery Omoda will make its UK debut at our Everything Electric expo in London this month. Get your tickets here: https://everythingelectric.show
00:00 Intro
1:52 Exterior walkaround
3:13 As standard!?
3:52 Cargo space
4:25 A surprising interior
6:02 Space for a bobble
7:07 Driving impressions
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