BRIEFLY: Hyundai Staria, VW Overtakes Tesla and Zeekr 7GT
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly. Everything you need to know about today's news, but wrapped up in less |
| 0:04.9 | than five minutes if you're really stuffed for time. Let's get you up to speed. Hyundai picked |
| 0:09.8 | the Brussels Motor Show to show off their largest electric vehicle yet. It's a pure battery |
| 0:15.7 | version of their Starrier MPV, a people carrier. They say that this is built for comfort, for flexibility, for families |
| 0:23.8 | who want to move either six or nine people around for fleets, airport transports and school |
| 0:29.4 | runs and things like that. It's a WLTP range of 250 miles, 400 kilometers, vehicle to load, |
| 0:39.6 | digital key, loads of driver assistance, |
| 0:47.2 | and the biggest Hyundai that they are selling yet. Tesla are going bare bones with their long range model Y for Europe. We've been talking about the standard range vehicles with Tesla for |
| 0:51.7 | a while, only a few days ago, talking about the Canadian |
| 0:54.5 | version of the new standard Model Y. But this is the standard long-range rear-wheel drive. |
| 1:01.7 | I know, it's very specific specification, but it's rated at 657 kilometers, WLTP, and it's the longest range and most efficient model Y that we've had on |
| 1:13.7 | sales so far in Europe. It's very much stripped down, though. Gone are any of the creature |
| 1:20.3 | comforts that make Tesla more of a premium brand. It has got the glass roof, but it's got a roof liner on the inside of it and you |
| 1:29.9 | can't look through it because it hasn't got the coatings and things like that. The ventilated seats are |
| 1:34.9 | gone. The heated rear seats are gone. The rear passenger touchscreen's gone. The vents are all |
| 1:39.0 | manual. Not the end of the world, if what you really want is just big range. Congratulations to the Tesla team in |
| 1:45.9 | China. I'm always talking about how the China story really became central to Tesla all those years ago. |
| 1:54.8 | Shanghai has now built the 5 millionth electric drive unit, EDU, which is the motor, the gearbox, the inverter and everything |
| 2:03.3 | associated with it. Volkswagen have overtaken Tesla, though. So we talk about how B.Y.D just |
| 2:10.8 | became the biggest EV maker in the world, taking Tesla's crown. And congratulations to BYD, |
| 2:16.1 | of course for that. But Volkswagen, |
| 2:18.3 | overtaking Tesla as well, how can that be true? Well, it's true if you strip out China. |
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