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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.
Harley-Davidson LiveWire
Opinion 

Harley-Davidson LiveWire may be the future, but there’s something missing

February 21, 2022March 5, 2022 Stephen Corby 8495 Views harley-davidson

It really is quite difficult to review something that you’re already convinced you’re going to hate. Riding an electric motorcycle

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Hyundai Kona Electric
Reviews SUV reviews 

Hyundai Kona Electric long term update 3: the solar splash-and-dash

February 3, 2022February 11, 2022 Stephen Corby 3631 Views Hyundai

Look, to be honest, I thought I might enjoy having an EV parked in the driveway for a few months,

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Jet Charge founder and CEO Tim Washington with a Nissan Leaf
News 

V2G tech to change the way we live in Australia from 2022

November 26, 2021December 3, 2021 Stephen Corby 6698 Views

A future in which your car will act as a giant battery to power your house and you’ll never have

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US Presiden Joe Biden opening Factory Zero in Detroit where the Hummer EV will be manufactured
News 

Biden shows Morrison how it’s done in Hummer EV

November 23, 2021December 3, 2021 Stephen Corby 2855 Views Morrison

It is a feeling surpassing strange to find yourself wishing that the President of the United States was in charge

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 with a Hyundai Kona Electric
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Hyundai Kona Electric long term review update 2: meeting the EV family

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 4437 Views Hyundai

You know how it is; everything is going great, you’re genuinely, joyfully in love and then, suddenly, something better comes

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Mercedes-Benz EQA250
News 

Federal Government U-turn on EVs ‘leaves much to be desired’

November 10, 2021November 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 2558 Views

In a U-turn so sharp you can probably smell burning rubber if you stand close to him, Prime Minister Scott

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Bill Shorten and his Tesla Model 3
News 

Getting a Tesla Model 3 took some negotiation for Bill Shorten

October 25, 2021November 5, 2021 Stephen Corby 2952 Views Tesla

How many of our 226 Australian MPs would you guess have chosen an electric vehicle as their Commonwealth-provided car? Sure,

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Hyundai Ioniq 5
Reviews SUV reviews 

Hyundai Ioniq 5 RWD review

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Stephen Corby 7170 Views Hyundai

Hyundai, in case you didn’t notice, is not Apple. So when the Korean company launched a new product – the

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BYD e6
News 

$40K BYD e6 EV coming soon, but there’s a catch…

October 21, 2021October 29, 2021 Stephen Corby 9826 Views BYD

Chinese brand BYD has just launched the cheapest electric car ever seen in the Australian market – the e6 small

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Savic motorcycles to launch Aussie-built e-motorbikes
News 

Aussie-built Savic electric motorcycles to launch in 2022

October 8, 2021October 22, 2021 Stephen Corby 5333 Views Savic

Australia might not be making many EVs, or cars of any kind, these days, but we are about to get

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Hybrid vehicle

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