FAMILY requirement for a compact seven-seater electric car that sidesteps styling like a sports utility has just been answered by Mercedes – but Kiwis feeling the need will have to wait until 2022.

This from the brand’s New Zealand operation in respect to the EQB, to all intents a battery-compelled version of the GLB, which has fast risen up the popularity scale since recent national release, and also closely related to the entirely electric EQA compact crossover that has just shown up here.