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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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November 29, 2020November 28, 2020 Stephen Corby 2844 Views electric car, ev, rolls-royce ghost

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November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Stephen Corby 2848 Views

Sure, Bluetooth is very clever – connecting your phone to your ears wirelessly in your car, or via your surprisingly

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Electric flying cars, and ambulances, are here to save the world

November 27, 2020November 30, 2020 Stephen Corby 2929 Views

What could possibly be more efficient and eco-friendly than electric cars – flying electric cars. And taxis, and ambulances and

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Melbourne: a city of big beards, OK coffee … and not many Teslas

November 22, 2020November 30, 2020 Stephen Corby 3265 Views ev

Ah, Melbourne, so much image, so little substance. Well, I say “image”, but actually, outside of Australia, most of the

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VW unveils EV wagon with 700km range

November 20, 2020November 26, 2020 Stephen Corby 4051 Views EV Concept, EV station wagon, Volkswagen, Volkswagen EV

Volkswagen’s plans to sell a million EVs a year by 2025 have been boosted by the announcement of a new

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GM to shift to “all-electric portfolio”

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Stephen Corby 2893 Views Autonomous vehicles, Chevrolet EV, GM, Lyriq

The giants are coming. One of the world’s biggest automotive brands, General Motors, has announced it is “transitioning to an

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Pollies turn attention to taxing EVs while big mining gets discounted diesel

November 15, 2020November 19, 2020 Stephen Corby 2839 Views australian politicians, electric cars, electric vehicles, ev taxes

Sadly, I think we’ve all come to just accept that our governments in this country are very busy sexually harassing and

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Rivian R1T EV super truck gets a price cut before it’s even on sale

November 13, 2020November 15, 2020 Stephen Corby 2921 Views ev, EV truck, Pick-up truck, Rivian, Rivian R1T, Tesla

Tesla-rival Rivian is going after market share by pricing its own all-electric pick-up truck even more aggressively, announcing a new

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Audi RS e-Tron GT
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Audi RS e-Tron GT looks like it’s setting the pace

November 9, 2020November 13, 2020 Stephen Corby 3080 Views Audi, electric car, ev

Yes, Audi’s new RS e-Tron GT will smash its way to 100km/h in 3.3 seconds, and yes its power figures

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Porsche Taycan undergoing development testing in 2019
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Blind rage over the silence of electric cars

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020 Stephen Corby 3737 Views electric car, ev noise

It’s not often that I see something on Facebook that really makes me think, or makes me think anything other

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