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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.
It's technically EV blocking but is as bad as ICE blocking... the Hyundai on the left is parked in an EV charging spot but not charging
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February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Stephen Corby 2599 Views Emissions, ev, PHEV, Policy, scott morrison, Subsidies

The government has issued a discussion paper outlining Australia’s Future Fuels Strategy, and the headline news in terms of subsidies

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GM chairman and CEO Mary Barra presenting the company's electric future. GM plans to eliminate CO2 tailpipe emissions across its light vehicle fleet by 2035, suggesting it will stop selling diesel and petrol cars by then
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GM to stop building petrol and diesel cars by 2035

January 29, 2021February 14, 2022 Stephen Corby 2732 Views cadillac, electric car, ev, GM, Holden, hummer

Where America leads, the world follows, and if that is the case then it seems an EV future is approaching

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A computer generated image of the GMC Hummer that will race in the Extreme E off-road championship
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Hummer EV to go racing in Extreme E championship

January 29, 2021February 10, 2021 Stephen Corby 2472 Views electric car, ev, extreme e, GMC, hummer

The idea of Hummer winning any contests other than “Heaviest” or “Ugliest” seems slightly absurd, but not as crazy as

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Professor Francois Aguey-Zinsou with a LAVO hydrogen battery
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Australia leads the way with hydrogen battery – and BBQ

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Stephen Corby 5921 Views australia, batteries, charging, electric car, ev, hydrogen, Hydrogen batteries

Australia is leading the charge towards hydrogen-based power sources with a local company, LAVO, announcing the world’s first hydrogen-powered domestic

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US climate envoy John Kerry
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US says world needs to shift to EVs 22 times faster

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Stephen Corby 1678 Views electric car, ev, EVs

The sneaking sense that the shift the world needs to make towards electric-vehicle usage is not happening fast enough –

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Elon Musk at Tesla Battery Day Presentation
Opinion 

Time for Elon Musk to put his money where his mouthpiece is

January 17, 2021January 26, 2021 Stephen Corby 2930 Views electric car, elon musk, ev, model 2, Tesla, Tesla Model 2

Visionary, nerd, messiah, megalomaniac, saviour, sophist, genius, asshole – Elon Musk, now the world’s richest person, seems to be someone

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2021 Range Rover Velar P400e PHEV
News 

UK in race to go full EV by 2030

January 9, 2021January 8, 2021 Stephen Corby 2559 Views ev, EV goals, ev news, EV sale, ICE, Internal combustion engine. 2030, UK

A huge rise in EV sales in the UK last year has been hailed as “a significant achievement” by car-company

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2023 Subaru EV concept
News 

First Subaru EV confirmed for 2022, Evoltis name likely

December 18, 2020December 27, 2020 Stephen Corby 2125 Views 2025, Europe, ev, Joint venture, Subaru, Toyota and Subaru

Subaru, a brand beloved by keen drivers everywhere, has announced that it will join the rush towards electric vehicles by

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Joby flying taxi
News 

Uber seeks help to get flying EV taxis off the ground

December 10, 2020December 13, 2020 Stephen Corby 3193 Views ev, Uber, Uber Elevate

Uber is asking someone else to help get its flying electric-car project, Uber Elevate, off the ground. While it may

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GMC Hummer EV prototype testing at the Milford Proving Ground in Michigan
News 

EV Hummer gets real with new prototype unveiled

December 10, 2020January 14, 2021 Stephen Corby 2780 Views

Cruel and cynical types who predicted that GM would never actually achieve its stated goal of building a fully electric

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