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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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Lamborghini can’t hack the pace of EVs

March 19, 2021March 26, 2021 Stephen Corby 3270 Views ev, EV speed, lamborghini, Taycan

Supercar companies are bullish types – literally in the case of the Raging Bull Lamborghini – and they would never

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The electric pick-up from Californian-based EV startup Canoo
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Canoo’s EV pickup is “bad to the bone”

March 12, 2021March 18, 2021 Stephen Corby 8138 Views california, Canoo, ev, EV pickup truck, US

If, like Elon Musk, you’re planning on visiting Mars sometimes soon, we’ve got the perfect interplanetary rover/SUV for you; the

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric crossover SUV
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Sales boom for new Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV

March 5, 2021September 20, 2021 Stephen Corby 3595 Views ev, EV Europe, Hyund, hyundai ev, Ioniq, ioniq 5, new ev

Hyundai has a huge hit on its hands with its super-cool Ioniq 5 EV after being swamped with by customers,

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2020 BMW i3s battery electric vehicle
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Ulterior motive? Politicians struggling to see the EV light…

February 28, 2021February 27, 2021 Stephen Corby 3308 Views australian government, electric car, ev, Policy

Recently, I became quite enraged when the Federal Government announced that it was thumbing its toffee nose at world’s best

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2020 Hyundai Ioniq Electric Premium
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Hyundai recalls EVs over fire risk

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Stephen Corby 3312 Views ev, fire, Hyunda, kona, recall

Hyundai Australia has issued a recall for its electric Ioniq and Kona vehicles to replace their battery-management systems and battery

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General Motors' Super Bowl ad stars Will Ferrell, who discovers Norway far outpaces the United States in electric vehicle adoption
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America is ahead of Australia on EVs (and why it’s a worry!)

February 21, 2021February 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 2815 Views america, electric cars, ev sales, norway

America is such a tangled ball of idiots and geniuses, a producer of such unlikely events, outrageous bad actors and

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Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric
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Volvo XC40 Recharge EV locked in for August launch

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 2021 Views Future, polestar, volvo, xc40 recharge

Volvo, the car company formerly known as Safety, is increasingly carving out a niche as an EV early adopter, and

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GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra
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GM looks to Norway as EV exemplar

February 12, 2021February 15, 2021 Stephen Corby 1578 Views Advertisement, cars, GM, Superbowl, Superbowl ad, Will Ferrell

The hilarious Super Bowl advertisement made to promote GM’s plans to introduce 30 new EVs by 2025 – No Way,

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A hydrogen-fuelled Hyzon fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) to be used at Fortescue's Christmas Creek mine. Image source: Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
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‘Diggy’ Forrest’s grand green hydrogen plan makes sense

February 7, 2021February 11, 2021 Stephen Corby 2257 Views Andrew Forrest, fcev, Fortescue, fuel cell, green hydrogen

It is an extremely uncomfortable feeling, something akin to having lobsters in your underwear or leeches in your ears, to

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Chargefox 350kW ultra-rapid charger
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NRMA pushes governments on EV policy

February 5, 2021June 28, 2021 Stephen Corby 2370 Views charging

Peak motoring body the NRMA is becoming increasingly concerned about Australia’s lack of preparedness for the EV revolution, and is

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