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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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News 

Volkswagen adds ID.5 Paddle Pop to range

April 30, 2021May 5, 2021 Stephen Corby 2811 Views ID.5, Volkswagen EV, VW

Volkswagen’s genuinely exciting EV range has expanded yet again, with a sneak preview of the ID.5, a “coupe” styled SUV,

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Tesla Roadster
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EV sales jump 250 percent

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Stephen Corby 2472 Views Boris Johnson, Climate change, co2, ev, EV boom, ev sales, global warming, UK

While it’s natural, as an Australian, to worry that the shift towards EVs is not moving fast enough, the good

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Victoria boasts ‘Worst EV policy in the world’

April 23, 2021April 29, 2021 Stephen Corby 2083 Views ev, ev tax, Victorian Government

The Victorian government has earned itself the ignominious honour of being labelled with having the “worst electric vehicle policy in

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Ferrari SF90 Spider
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Ferrari to launch first super EV in 2025

April 16, 2021April 22, 2021 Stephen Corby 4933 Views ev

Ferrari will soon have an EV. The world’s most ferocious super car brand – and the operatic home of screaming

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Tesla customers robbed by internet scam

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Stephen Corby 2648 Views australia, ev, internet scam, online deposits, stolen, Tesla, Tesla Model 3

Tesla has been urged to review the way payments for its cars are made after Australian buyers lost tens of

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How simple things can lead to different approaches to EVs

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Stephen Corby 3264 Views

If you’re expecting the electric future of Mazda to be as exciting and invigorating as offerings from Porsche and Tesla,

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2021 Jaguar I-Pace
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Government “punishing” EV buyers – JLR

April 1, 2021June 28, 2021 Stephen Corby 2247 Views

As you might expect of a company that’s pledged to go fully EV by 2025, Jaguar is more than a

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News 

Government putting “handbrake” on EVs – Labor MP attacks

March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 Stephen Corby 2244 Views

Politicians are finally starting to wake up to the fact that Australia is embarrassing itself on the world stage in

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Ferrari SF90 Spider
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Acceleration of EVs means speed isn’t everything. I think…

March 21, 2021March 23, 2021 Stephen Corby 3414 Views EV performance, Ferrari, lamborghini, porsche

If car companies were religions, I know for sure that I would worship at the Temple of Porsche. I fell

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Audi Q4 e-Tron
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Audi Q6 to get Porsche DNA and join e-Tron family in 2022

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 2136 Views Audi, e-tron, electric suv, ev, Q6

A larger e-Tron is poised to join the Audi family in the form of the Q6. After recently announcing that

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