Sina has reported, citing Chinese industry and information technology ministry (MIIT) documents, that the next iteration of the Geely Xingyuan/EX2 (known to us as the Proton eMas 5) could have CLTC ranges of between 360 and 480 km (approximately 300-400 km WLTP), courtesy of bigger 35.35 and 47.14 kWh batteries. This is quite a lot better than the 225 and 325 km WLTP yielded by the eMas 5’s 30.12 and 40.16 kWh batteries.
We already know from previous spyshots to expect new turbine-style aero covers for the base 15-inch steel wheels and a column gear selector (like the Geely Galaxy E5/Geely EX5/Proton eMas 7), but Sina now reports that the new car is 105 mm longer (likely due to new bumpers) at 4,240 mm overall and has more wheel designs (including one paired with red callipers).
No mention of charging details, but if the max AC (6.6 kW) and DC (53 and 71 kW) rates are unchanged, you should still get from 30-80% in as little as 21 minutes, because the batteries aren’t very much bigger. Do you think all these will trickle down to Malaysia’s best-selling EV since the year started, and if so, when?
In case you didn’t know, the Xingyuan/EX2 was already updated in China in late-2025 for the 2026 model year, with the changes being largely cosmetic.
Chinese-market 2026 Geely Xingyuan
Malaysian-market Proton eMas 5
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This China top seller car every year can upgrade. Amazing.
Sh*t!!! Gotta cancel my
eMas5 booking and
Wait for this one
that’s the reason why proton with limited market reach cannot stand by it’s own. vinfast too cannot survive for long. it is a marketig strategy to flood the market to prevent dilute competitor’s share of the market. however sometimes this can backfire because whatever i buy today becomes obsolete next year. that willl affect the resale value of the vehicle.
a challenge for Proton too.. will they be able to keep up with such frequent upgrades. can our local parts supplier keep up with such short lifecycle ?
If this get obsolete others also meaningless already
With MITIs latest move, there is no reason for Proton to improve the existing specs. I expect this not to trickle down to Malaysia
i bought perodua qve, very good quality and cheap national EV, better than potong rebadge china junk
Spoken like a true crony. Let me educate your peabrain for a minute. What you MITI and P1/2 fanboys want to dress up as “protection” is really a license to price gouge. Without the protections these losers have to actually compete and innovate which they don’t want to do. Without the Chinese brands putting immense pressure there would be no inventive to do anything at all. Look at that garabage P2 CEO claiming no uplifts for Bezza until 2030, he said that with a laugh. You’d be insane not to punch that thief square in the face for that insolence while Chinese firms bring substantial updates every year. What MITI and the cronies want is to ensure the ceiling is artificially so high that when they rob you left right and center you’d go ‘wow but its still cheaper than conti cars’ when really it could be as cheap as 40-50K for what they will charge you upwards of 100K without any competition.
Competition breeds innovation, protectionism breeds complacency, laziness and pure greed.
Hahahaha, bought a QVE? That’s your best joke so far, lipas.
lol what “local” EV brand? Proton EVs are rebadged Geely (no shame also putting eMas in our merdeka parade last year yikes), and P2’s failure EV with its weird subscription battery model sold like 11 units max. But this is typical “type M” behaviour lah, fail at school so lower exam passing grade, fail at business so force better business to give u money for no reason, fail at making good cars so ban or tax all better cars, we have seen this with petrol cars since bapak racism Tun M made Proton in the 80s…
Well said
They haven’t even updated the emas7 with the bigger battery, but you guys think they will upgrade the battery of the emas5 ???
They already got monopoly courtesy of the MITI ie donkey johari ghani, so they have no need to upgrade the batteries until a few years later. Useless proton
Tongsan car, M (sabri) and I (peppa, suryn) butt hurt want to see it fail