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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.
LATEST Opinion 

Attitudes to EVs hit a new low on Facebook

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 3133 Views ev, EVs, facebook

Now look, obviously I know that Facebook is a dark and dangerous place populated by angry idiots who would have,

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2020 Toyota Hilux Rugged X
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Car sales boom in Australia, all of them giant gas guzzlers

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Stephen Corby 2269 Views electric car, ev sales, Tesla, Vfacts

In the midst of an economic slump and a ban on international travel, Australians have reacted not by hunkering down

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Rolls-Royce Ghost with a twin-turbo V12
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The age of V12-engined fat-cat cars is coming to an end

November 29, 2020November 28, 2020 Stephen Corby 3208 Views electric car, ev, rolls-royce ghost

The future is meant to be a foreign country, and as we all know, we can’t visit those any more.

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Tesla Model X
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How to steal a Tesla using Bluetooth

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Stephen Corby 3154 Views

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

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Lilium electric VTOL jet
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Electric flying cars, and ambulances, are here to save the world

November 27, 2020November 30, 2020 Stephen Corby 3192 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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2019 Tesla Model 3 dual-motor
Opinion 

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

November 22, 2020November 30, 2020 Stephen Corby 3527 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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Volkswagen EV wagon concept the Space Vizzion
News 

VW unveils EV wagon with 700km range

November 20, 2020November 26, 2020 Stephen Corby 4617 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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2021 GMC Hummer EV pickup truck
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GM to shift to “all-electric portfolio”

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Stephen Corby 3247 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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Audi e-Tron 50 Sportback
Opinion 

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

November 15, 2020November 19, 2020 Stephen Corby 3049 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 electric pickup truck going off-road
News 

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

November 13, 2020November 15, 2020 Stephen Corby 3225 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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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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Hybrid vehicle
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Hybrid vehicle

July 26, 2019 Stephen Corby Comments Off on 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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