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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.
Audi e-Tron 55 Sportback charging at an ultra-rapid fast charger in Goulburn NSW
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Shock of the new: Why I won’t soon forget the Audi e-tron

October 11, 2020May 16, 2022 Stephen Corby 2061 Views audi e-tron, electric suv, ev

The big, watershed moments of your working life stick with you, indelibly, like mental chewing gum on the sole of

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Electric cars: Where Australia (sadly) lags America

September 27, 2020October 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 2075 Views america, electric vehicle, ev, government policy, Tesla

Does anyone enjoy being beaten senseless by someone weaker and more pathetic than them? I guess Gandhi might have, because

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Hyundai’s super-modern Ioniq interior – with robots

September 25, 2020September 26, 2020 Stephen Corby 2015 Views electric vehicle, ev, Hyundai, Ioniq

Hyundai is throwing all of its considerable design smarts at its Ioniq EV range, and has attempted to reimagine what

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September 25, 2020September 29, 2020 Stephen Corby 3575 Views california, electric car, electric vehicle

As Australian EV sales struggle to hit one percent of our total car market, we are increasingly looking like the

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September 20, 2020December 23, 2020 Stephen Corby 2389 Views automomous car, driverless car, future driving, stephen corby

Perhaps it’s the whole Car of the Future vibe, but more likely it’s all Tesla’s fault. Either way, a lot

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September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Stephen Corby 4183 Views Jaguar, Jaguar XJ EV, model 3, Range Rover, Tesla

The idea of a fully electric Range Rover might seem slightly implausible, but then so does Tesla’s Cybertruck at first

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September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Stephen Corby 2473 Views Audi, Audi Australia boss, australian government, ev, Incentives

While car companies in Australia have largely given up on the idea of our government ever offering incentives of any

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The Team X44 team created by Lewis Hamilton to compete in the Extreme E off-road races in 2021
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Extreme E racer has the hype, but what about environmental cred?

September 13, 2020October 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 1944 Views extreme e, f1, off-road racer

Nigel Mansell famously had some trouble fitting into a Formula One car, and it just shows you how far technology

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India to force petrol stations to provide EV charging

September 11, 2020October 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 2738 Views electric car, india

India, the planet’s third-largest polluter, has come up with a world-leading idea to help reduce the amount of CO2 it

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Tesla’s Solar Roof will change everything

September 11, 2020October 21, 2020 Stephen Corby 4531 Views Musk, solar house, solar power, Tesla, Tesla tiles

For the kind of person who worships Tesla and believes that Elon Musk represents the Second Coming of Albert Einstein, it

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