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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.
A wallbox charger being installed to power our Hyundai Kona Electric Extended Range
Reviews SUV reviews 

Hyundai Kona Electric long term review update 1: Getting a home ‘petrol station’

October 5, 2021October 7, 2021 Stephen Corby 3880 Views Hyundai

Surely it would be entirely normal to get excited if someone installed a new petrol station in your driveway. Yes,

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UK fuel crisis
News 

UK fuel crisis sparks panic buying of EVs

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Stephen Corby 1879 Views EV UK, Fuel crisis, Tesla, Tesla shares

You may have seen the headlines about queues at petrol stations in the UK as the post-Brexit paradise is running

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Toceva racing's Tesla Model 3 in action in the Targa West rally
News 

Tesla crushes petrol-powered racers in Targa West rally

September 24, 2021September 28, 2021 Stephen Corby 5928 Views Tesla

A brave team of motoring enthusiasts has given the internal-combustion engine a good kicking after entering a Tesla Model 3

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News 

Vic government sued in High Court over EV tax

September 17, 2021September 18, 2021 Stephen Corby 3540 Views ev, EV road tax, ev tax, High court challenge EV tax, victoria, Victorian EV road tax

Victoria’s astonishingly awful EV road tax – a world first that’s as well thought out as charging people for each

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Tesla has lapped the Nurburgring in the Model S Plaid
News 

Musk Lord of the Ring as Tesla claims EV record

September 10, 2021September 15, 2021 Stephen Corby 3748 Views Nurburgring, Tesla

The Tesla Model S Plaid has apparently smashed the lap record for a production electric car at the Nurburgring, and

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Audi Grandsphere concept
News 

Audi boss says ‘massive demand’ for EVs requires faster infrastructure rollout

September 3, 2021September 7, 2021 Stephen Corby 1603 Views Audi

Audi has called on governments in Germany and around the world to work faster on expanding the production of renewable

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Kia Niro Electric
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Why value in an EV can sometimes be tricky to spot…

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Stephen Corby 3443 Views

You’ll often hear people talking about how they’d like to buy an EV, but they’re too expensive – in much

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BMW iX3
News 

BMW design boss says people will pay more for EVs … if they look good

August 27, 2021September 1, 2021 Stephen Corby 2072 Views 2026, bmw, design, ev, ev design, Full EV, Tesla

The trick to getting people to pay more money for an electric vehicle is simply to make them look more

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Hyundai Kona Electric EV
News 

EV sales up 168 percent this year, Tesla leading

August 20, 2021August 23, 2021 Stephen Corby 2348 Views China, Europe, ev sales, EVs, Tesla, VW Group

They might be moving slower than a sleeping snail in Australia, but EV sales are exploding elsewhere in the civilised

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The Mosh/Chopper Serial 1 e-bike powered by Harley-Davidson
Opinion 

Green over mean: Meet the tamer new Harley-Davidson

August 10, 2021August 13, 2021 Stephen Corby 2951 Views

At first glance, to an idiot, it might almost, kind of make sense – bicycles have two wheels, Harley-Davidsons have

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January 10, 2021 EV Central team Comments Off on FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle

Hydrogen electric vehicles, often called hydrogen fuel cells vehicles (FCEV), drive the same as regular EVs. They can have one

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