Spain just got its own Chinese Volkswagen Golf killer — and that's not a figure of speech. Geely has started taking orders for the electric E2, a compact B-segment hatchback known in China as the Galaxy Xingyuan. That might sound modest, until you remember: in 2025, this model became the best-selling car of any kind in all of China — 465,775 units in a single year. Not the best-selling EV. The best-selling car, period.
Preorders are open now, with a €500 deposit — about $571 or roughly 43,700 rubles at current exchange rates. Buyers are promised an extra €500 discount on top of the launch offer, but Geely is still keeping the actual price under wraps. The suspense should end in September: that's when cars are expected to reach dealers, with first deliveries planned for the end of the month.
The E2 rides on the GEA platform, the same architecture Geely uses for its larger models too. Length: 4,135 mm. Width: 1,805 mm. Height: 1,580 mm. On paper, it's just another city EV. In practice, it's got a trunk that's almost too big to call “urban”: 375 liters in the back, plus another 70 liters up front in the frunk. Five real seats and a 14.6-inch central touchscreen running Geely Flyme Auto round out the package.
The European version gets an LFP battery, with a claimed range of around 345 km WLTP. And here's where the real fight starts — not against Tesla, but against the upcoming Volkswagen ID. Polo, the BYD Dolphin Surf, and the Leapmotor B03X. The Leapmotor is already priced in Europe from around €25,000 — about $28,600 or 2.18 million rubles — while the BYD Dolphin Surf in Spain starts around €23,750, roughly $27,100 or 2.08 million rubles. Will Geely land inside that range, or undercut it entirely? If it does, the E2 becomes a genuinely dangerous rival, riding on trunk space, an LFP battery, and the reputation of a Chinese bestseller.
Li Lei, Managing Director of Geely Auto España, put it this way: “The new Geely E2 reflects Geely Auto's ambitions in Spain very well: making advanced electric technology accessible to more drivers.” But for Geely, there's more riding on this than a single model's launch. Rumors are already circling that the E2 could be built at Ford's Almussafes plant, if the Chinese group ends up acquiring that asset — which would give this Spanish-market EV an actual Spanish birth certificate.
The real question left hanging isn't about specs anymore — the specs already impress. It's whether Geely will play the pricing game as aggressively in Europe as it does back home.
