It's TV news briefly for Tuesday 12th of December. I'll be back as usual. 8 a.m. UK, that's 5 a.m. Eastern for the full podcast to start a brand new day. With the latest TV news, Patreon supporters get them as soon as they're ready, though, and add free. Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. The 2024 Hyundai Coner. Electric is out in the USA, and it's got a lot more space. It's six inches longer than the outgoing

Kona. So it's much more like the Nero EV or E Nero, whatever it was called where you're listening

because it's much bigger in the back, three inches of passenger extra room in the second row and a

bigger boot trunk as well, which is the reason why we sold ours last week. We

loved that vehicle so much. We had a Kona Ultimate, but it just wasn't big enough because we adopted

a baby girl this year. And it just doesn't all fit in the back. But that's great news. Leasing

deal start from 259 in the USA as well. Let's talk a little bit about Ohio launching the first Biden-backed EV

TV charging station. A lot of the states are still getting the head around how to plan and spend

the money, but Ohio got in there early, part of the $5 billion national EV charging initiative,

that federal funds being available with the NEV-I fund, N-V-I fund, 17 states, I think put bids in,

seven digital conditional awards, and Ohio is the first one to turn on their first charging

station. Had to be made in the USA, by the way. One of the conditions of the money was build America

by America. And talking of networks, a Volvo and Starbucks turned on their EV fast charging station network.

Today, it's on a 1,500 mile stretch from Denver to Seattle.

And Volvo are going to manage this with their telematics and their online monitoring, virtual monitoring, in-personal monitoring.

So Volvo got some skin in the games.

They say they don't want these charges to be out of order to have bad maintenance.

Starbucks, on the other hand, again, it's branded with Starbucks at their locations.

They want people to have a great experience. This could be the way forward for charging networks,

actually visibly brands that you know and love, not just the charging makers, the manufacturers,

or an anonymous name like Electrify America or Ionity, which means nothing, but stick a brand on

like Volvo.

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