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The Chery Omoda E5 has been found to have identical safety performance to its petrol-powered twin with an updated score under now-superseded criteria.
The 2025 Chery Omoda E5 electric SUV has mirrored the safety rating of its petrol twin.
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) said additional validation tests and new technical data have verified the safety performance of the electric Chery SUV, with identical scores to the existing petrol model.
Petrol versions of the Chery Omoda 5 were awarded a five-star ANCAP safety rating in 2023 based on testing conducted by Euro NCAP a year earlier under the less-stringent 2022 criteria.
Overall, the Chery Omoda E5 scores 87 per cent for adult occupant protection, 88 per cent for child occupant protection, 68 per cent for vulnerable road user protection, and 83 per cent for safety assistance.
Under the now-superseded 2020-2022 ANCAP criteria, minimum scores of 80 per cent, 80 per cent, 60 per cent, and 70 per cent were required, respectively, to achieve a five-star rating.
At the time, ANCAP noted while the Omoda 5 performed well in its frontal offset crash test, certain hard elements of its dashboard “could become a potential source of knee injury risk to occupants”.
The safety organisation also found the side curtain airbags did not “open as intended” in the side-impact test, resulting in a points penalty, while the small SUV struggled in its vulnerable road user tests for pedestrian head impacts and upper leg impacts.
“This five-star rating for the Omoda E5 will be a welcome addition to the shopping lists of consumers and fleets in the market for a five-star EV,” said ANCAP CEO Carla Hoorweg.
A rival to the BYD Atto 3 and MG ZS EV, the 2025 Chery Omoda E5 electric SUV launched in Australia in September priced from $42,990 before on-road costs.
Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.
