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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 

Government putting “handbrake” on EVs – Labor MP attacks

PharmacySydney.com
March 27, 2021March 27, 2021
Stephen Corby 2334 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
MJDHealthPharmacy.com
Stephen Corby 3591 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 2256 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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Lamborghini Huracan STO
News 

Lamborghini can’t hack the pace of EVs

March 19, 2021March 26, 2021 Stephen Corby 3399 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
News 

Canoo’s EV pickup is “bad to the bone”

March 12, 2021March 18, 2021 Stephen Corby 8308 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 3709 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 3470 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
EV News 

Hyundai recalls EVs over fire risk

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Stephen Corby 3441 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
Opinion 

America is ahead of Australia on EVs (and why it’s a worry!)

February 21, 2021February 19, 2021 Stephen Corby 2937 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 2167 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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FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle

January 10, 2021 EV Central team Comments Off on FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle

Hydrogen electric vehicles, often called hydrogen fuel cells vehicles (FCEV), drive the same as regular EVs. They can have one

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PHEV: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

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Hybrid vehicle
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Hybrid vehicle

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EV videos

Mad video: G-force overload as we ride with F1’s Liam Lawson in Ford’s 4000Nm electric SuperVan
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With acceleration to rip the skin from your cheekbones, Ford’s SuperVan 4.2 is an electric Transit with performance from another

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