Welcome back to the podcast today. Hyundai unveil the Starrier. Tesla adds a bare-bones model Y and Toyota top TVs in Japan.

Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you how Zika plans to shake up the European fast wagon sector with one of their Chinese success stories.

No, EV News China today, it's the weekend. Our spin-off podcast happens weekdays and no

bonus shows this weekend. But next weekend, we'll have our later sponsor on Nathan Gore-Brown from

Test TV, talking about why used EV markets need battery health testing. Now, let's kick off with

Hyundai. They picked the Brussels Motor Show this week to launch its largest electric vehicle yet,

a battery-powered version of the Staria multi-purpose van. The firm wants a slice of the niche that's

fast-turning mainstream battery-powered MPVs, people carriers. Sales of the Staria Electric will start

in South Korea in Europe in the first half of this year. Other regions will

follow. The model extends Hyundai's EV push beyond crossovers and into people carriers. The

Staria targets growing demand for electric family haulers where buyers care less about headline

acceleration and more about usable space and range. It offers a roomy interior with an

emphasis on comfort and versatility for things like families and groups, a layout that would suit

a school run, an airport transfer or a ride hailing fleet just as much as any other private

owner. So it's big. 5.25 meters long, 1.99 meters wide and 1.99

9 meters high. The Starre Electric is the brand's biggest EV. It will come as a seven-seat luxury version.

There won't be, as far as I know, initially, the six-seat layout, which is very

common in China, by the way, with six big armchairs, but it will come with a nine-seat wagon

format. There's an 84-kil-watt-hour battery. This is going to be the 800-volt version of EGMP, by the way.

So DC fast charging to 80% in 20 minutes, you know, if everything's nicely

toasty. Hyundai says WLTP range 400 kilometres, so 249 miles. For some, that won't be

enough for me. This would shuttle our family and our growing amount of stuff that comes

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