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Articles by Stephen Corby

Stephen Corby
Stephen Corby

Stephen Corby is Australia’s most adored, revered and award motoring journalist, at least if you ask his Mum, and has been writing for print and online publications in Australia and around the world for more than 30 years, which makes him older than the idea of electric vehicles.

Or at very least, he’s been around for so long that he can remember people laughing about EVs and using phrases like “this will never catch on” and “who’s going to drive that, the Duracell bunny?”
Indeed, his first experience of driving an electric car – the truly forgettable Mitsubishi I MiEV – was so painfully underwhelming that if you’d told him at at the time he’d one day be working for a website called EVcentral.com.au he’d have laughed his head off, before asking you what the hell a website was.
Stephen gets a hard time from his colleagues and random members of the public for only driving very expensive super cars, but his argument is that no man’s Instagram feed (@stephencorby) is a realistic expression of his actual life.
In a career that has spanned almost every continent (and he’ll damn well get to South America eventually), Stephen has driven on deserts in Mongolia, race tracks in South Africa, snow and ice in Austria, public monuments in Prague, cliff edges in Scotland and across a staggering amount of Australia.
In that time he has worked for Car and Driver and The Washington Times in the US, the Evening Standard and Daily Mail in London as well as the venerable and hugely respected Autocar Magazine and the widely loved Top Gear UK magazine
In Australia has previously been the editor of both Wheels Magazine and Top Gear magazine and was a Car of the Year judge at both publications.
Stephen is also regularly published in The Robb Report where he is also the lone Car of the Year judge, CEO Magazine, Wish Magazine in The Australian newspaper and The Australian online.
He also has a weekly column in The Weekend Australian Magazine.
Stephen also writes for mainstream motoring sites including https://www.carsales.com.au and https://www.carsguide.com.au.
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June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Stephen Corby 6193 Views Ampol, australia, Charging electric vehicle

Ampol is the first petrol station-based charging supplier to leave the fuel forecourt, with the brand to install its high-speed

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2024 Toyota HiLux hybrid confirmed: New 48-volt electric system promises to drop diesel fuel use by 10 percent

June 27, 2023June 27, 2023 Stephen Corby 3897 Views HiLux, hybrid, Toyota

Toyota will launch its first hybrid HiLux in Australia in the first half of 2024, with the brand promising the

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
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2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV long-term review: Laziness destroys our fuel savings, but plug-in potential is clear

June 27, 2023June 26, 2023 Stephen Corby 8170 Views australia, Long term review, Mitsubishi outlander phev, Plug in hybrid

In what might be called the normal, or even old world, I would have been very happy to drive alarge,

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The Volkswagen ID.5 is one of the reasons the brand is rated highly on the electric vehicle winners and losers list.
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Electric vehicle winners and losers: Volkswagen steps up as Toyota, Honda, Mazda and Nissan drop the ball – and Tesla and BYD run away with it | Opinion

June 24, 2023June 23, 2023 Stephen Corby 5073 Views australia, BYD, electric vehicles, Tesla, Volkswagen

The Volkswagen ID.5 is one of the reasons the brand is rated highly on the electric vehicle winners and losers list.

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BYD Dolphin
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Confirmed: 2023 BYD Dolphin is Australia’s cheapest electric vehicle: EVs go mainstream as new model undercuts the MG4

June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 Stephen Corby 4439 Views BYD Dolphin, Price Australia

The incoming BYD Dolphin will launch in Australia this year from $38,890, earning the Chinese brand the title of Australia’s

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV long term update: Camping is depraved and should be banned

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 Stephen Corby 11018 Views Mitsubishi

Now look, I love camping as much as the next man –  as long as the next man is allergic

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New Ford Explorer revealed – and it’ll only be an EV

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Stephen Corby 3292 Views ford

Ford has unveiled its stunning looking new all-electric Ford Explorer, which shares its EV architecture with the Volkswagen ID.4.

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Mazda MX-30 M-Hybrid
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Japan finds our interest in EVs bemusing: How sticking with ICE is slowing the electric transition

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 Stephen Corby 4394 Views Hyundai, Japan, Lexus, mazda, Tesla, Toyota

I love Japan, and the Japanese people, indeed, I bet they taste like particularly good sashimi, but on my most

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McLaren Artura
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Electric supercars are coming in 2030s: McLaren

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Stephen Corby 3233 Views McLaren

Fully electric supercars are definitely on the way, but not until the end of the decade, according to  McLaren. But

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Fully Charged Live EV show in Sydney
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Huge crowds prove EV interest is Fully Charged

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 Stephen Corby 3687 Views ev, Fully Charged

Now look, obviously I know, in my heart of hearts and brain of brains, that there is a tsunami of

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