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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.
Fiat 500e
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Fiat 500e detailed: First European EV for those on a budget

March 8, 2023March 18, 2023 Stephen Corby 4372 Views fiat

Some cars just seem perfectly suited to going electric – city friendly, zippy and with plenty of appeal to the

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Tesla undergoing final quality inspection at the Gigafactory Berlin production line
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Tesla? No. Merc… not yet. Why there’s not a single EV I would buy today

March 4, 2023March 5, 2023 Stephen Corby 4117 Views Hyundai, Kia, polestar, Tesla

The question I am most often asked – on an almost equal footing with “how do you stay so young,

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – Long-termer welcome

January 28, 2023January 27, 2023 Stephen Corby 6803 Views

Having a fabulously fun and funky Hyundai Kona EV in my driveway taught me a lesson that I’ve learned time

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‘EVs will kill us all’ – Why are haters so obsessed with electric vehicles?

December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Stephen Corby 12068 Views Climate change, Climate denial, electric vehicles, ev, haters

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this, but some people – no, it’s actually a lot of people – seem

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Genesis GV70 Electrified
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Genesis GV70 Electrified review

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 Stephen Corby 7339 Views Genesis

When a new player in the market, like Genesis, comes along, it really has to focus on body snatching. Not

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Mercedes-Benz EQS53 AMG
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How TikTok inspired a $350K Mercedes-Benz EQS road trip – fast charging and all

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 Stephen Corby 4032 Views Mercedes-Benz

It is a truly awful thing to feel not only intimidated but completely beaten, belittled, unmanned. Standing there, with this

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Kia and Hyundai wireless road charging
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2035 Canberra ICE ban an important step, but a drop in the EV ocean

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Stephen Corby 3991 Views

Look, I could count the reasons that I’m proud to have grown up in Canberra on one hand, but only

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The Nissan Ariya electric SUV
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Nissan Ariya review: All-new electric SUV tested

July 4, 2022July 16, 2022 Stephen Corby 6337 Views australia, electric suv, electric vehicle, ev, nissan ariya

I think it’s fair, and only a tiny bit harsh, to say that no one ever bought a Nissan Leaf

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BMW CE 04 electric bike
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BMW CE 04 electric scooter review

May 26, 2022June 11, 2022 Stephen Corby 5761 Views bmw

Scooters are, as we all know, a lot like cocktails with little wooden umbrellas in them. It’s okay toengage with

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Mazda CX-60 PHEV
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Mazda CX-60 PHEV first drive

May 12, 2022May 20, 2022 Stephen Corby 6697 Views mazda

Mazda has become the latest manufacturer to jump on the PHEV bandwagon, and the electrified version of its all-new, premium

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