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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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Tesla’s staggering Model S Plaid has stunned the world by achieving a zero to 60mph (96.5km/h) time of just 15

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For a long time, Mazda didn’t seem that interest in EVs – indeed if you asked their senior people about

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Hyundai to cut ICE in half, invest in more EVs

May 28, 2021June 4, 2021 Stephen Corby 2442 Views ev news, Genesis, Hyundai, hyundai ev, ICE, Kia

Hyundai is set to slash the number of combustion-engined models in its global line-up in half, to free up money

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Polestar 2 confirmed for Australian launch in November

May 27, 2021June 7, 2021 Stephen Corby 3571 Views ev, Launch, new ev, polestar

Polestar, the Swedish EV-only brand jointly founded by Volvo and Geely, has confirmed it will launch its exciting Polestar 2

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NZ shows us the way again, with $8000 clean-car rebate

May 21, 2021June 28, 2021 Stephen Corby 2867 Views Budget, ev, Gas guzzler tax, NZ, Policy, Rebate, tax

Kiwis have shown off, once again, how much smarter and more advanced they are than us by introducing a $302

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Finally, an EV you can afford, at just $7100. There’s a catch…

May 21, 2021May 28, 2021 Stephen Corby 4437 Views Electric skateboard, EVs

EVs are often described as sitting on a “skateboard platform”, with the batteries lined up along the bottom, but what

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Nearly 20 percent of EV buyers switch back to a petrol vehicle – study

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Stephen Corby 2512 Views

Nearly 20 percent of EV buyers switch back to a petrol vehicle, according to a new US study which found

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Bad news for Camry as Uber launches purpose-built EV

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Stephen Corby 1860 Views

Uber is partnering with UK-based EV start-up Arrival to create a bespoke electric vehicle that would allow Uber drivers to

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Aussie company Janus Electric charges up electric trucks

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Stephen Corby 5097 Views Janus Electric

Australian company Janus Electric is launching a trial of electric trucks fitted with swappable batteries that can be exchanged in

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