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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.
News 

China’s XPeng EV brand beats Tesla on tech

August 7, 2021August 11, 2021 Stephen Corby 3346 Views China, ev, Tesla

Electric vehicles have outperformed traditional internal-combustion-engined brands in a ranking of technical innovation conducted by JD Power. And Chinese EV

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Tritium RTM75 75kW fast charger
EV charging News 

400 new fast chargers across Australia as part of $24m Future Fuels Fund splurge

July 30, 2021August 18, 2021 Stephen Corby 4635 Views Ampol, ev, EV chargers, fast charging, Government

Australia’s fast-charging network for electric vehicles has been given a huge boost that should send the number of installations soaring

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2021 Rivian R1S
News 

Huge expansion for Rivian in US with plans for second factory

July 23, 2021August 27, 2021 Stephen Corby 3439 Views Amazon, ev, EV SUV, EVs, Rivian, Rivian Amazon, Rivian China, Rivian EV, Rivian US

American EV maker Rivian, which is now valued at US$27.6 billion ($37.5 billion) and backed by the giant Amazon conglomerate, is

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BMW teamed with Shell in 2017 to explore ways to improve the customer experience with hydrogen refueling
EV charging News 

Shell to install hundreds of EV chargers

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Stephen Corby 5923 Views ev, ev charging, EV charging Shell

Giant multinational oil companies are sniffing the winds of change, and noticing that they don’t smell much like petroleum any

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Ford used leading fragrance experts to create the new Mach-Eau fragrance for people who "crave the performance of the new all-electric Mustang Mach-E GT yet still hold a fondness for the evocative smells of traditional petrol cars"
LATEST Opinion 

Mustang Mach-Eau… a whiff of petrol for the EV interested

July 21, 2021July 23, 2021 Stephen Corby 2858 Views

People are strange and, inarguably, Americans are even stranger, but the news that a lot of them want to smell

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Hyundai N performance arm to go electric

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Stephen Corby 2701 Views ev, Hyundai, hyundai ev, Hyundai N

Hyundai has already shown it can make attractive EVs, and practical, city-car electric vehicles, but it’s now set to take

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Polestar 2 Experimental at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
News 

Polestar takes on Tesla with 350kW Goodwood ‘Experiment’

July 9, 2021July 16, 2021 Stephen Corby 2116 Views ev, Experimental Polestar 2, Goodwood, Goodwood Festival of Speed, polestar 2, Polestar EV

Polestar has marked itself out as a competitor for Tesla’s sportier efforts, and the Model 3 Performance in particular, by

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Hyundai Nexo hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV)
LATEST Opinion 

From Iceland to Australia, hydrogen EVs are surprisingly cool

July 4, 2021July 4, 2021 Stephen Corby 3996 Views

There were a lot of things that shocked me about Iceland when I visited for the launch of a Volkswagen

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Electric Honda SUV e:prototype revealed at Auto Shanghai 2021
News 

Prologue EV to help Honda go fully electric in the US

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Stephen Corby 3060 Views ev, EV Honda, EV Honda US, Honda Prologue

Honda is ramping up its global EV plans, announcing plans to produce a new pure electric SUV for the American

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Victoria Police's 2019 Tesla Model X
News 

Victoria’s EV road tax starts to bite – and suck

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Stephen Corby 2861 Views ev, EV road tax, ev tax, Victorian Government

The Victorian Government has wished EV and PHEV owners an Unhappy New Financial Year after issuing a demand, on July

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Hybrid vehicle
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