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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.
Range Rover MY18 PHEV
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Why EV charging isn’t always simple – or politically correct

September 6, 2020January 5, 2023 Stephen Corby 2491 Views electric cars, ev owners

Look, not everyone wants to make friends or influence people, and if you’re more the kind of person who likes

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EVs will dominate Australia – Mercedes-Benz CEO

September 4, 2020December 23, 2020 Stephen Corby 2522 Views ev, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz EV, Mercedes-Benz news

Australians have always been keen early adopters when it comes to technology, and while that hasn’t proven to be the

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Jeep Wrangler goes electric

September 4, 2020September 8, 2020 Stephen Corby 6317 Views jeep, Jeep PHEV, jeep wrangler 4xe, jeep wrangler ev, PHEV

Jeep has made the leap into the electric world with both, big-booted feet, unveiling “the most capable, technically advanced and

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Tesla Model 3 a second-hand success

September 1, 2020December 23, 2020 Stephen Corby 3571 Views ev, ev news, ev sales, model 3, second-hand EVs, Tesla

While Tesla seems to constantly defy gravity in the business world – becoming a behemoth that outsizes car companies that

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Will EVs make driving boring? No chance, the Nanny State has that covered

August 30, 2020October 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 3273 Views

OPINION Some alarmist whiners suggest that the joy of driving will end with the rise of the EV machines. But

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Three-wheeled EV moves into Top Gear

August 30, 2020September 3, 2020 Stephen Corby 5511 Views Electra Meccanica, Electra Meccanica Solo, ev, new ev, Solo, Top Gear

There are moments in motoring that bring to mind the glory days of Top Gear, and this is one of

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Dark and stormy: Bollinger reveals Mad Max of EV delivery vans

August 28, 2020October 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 3187 Views Bollinger, bollinger deliver-e, electric van, ev van

As if mad delivery van drivers weren’t frightening enough already, a company with the highfalutin name of Bollinger Motors is

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Charging up – EV wallbox installs surge 500 percent

August 21, 2020September 8, 2020 Stephen Corby 2805 Views australia, charging, ev, evsales, homecharging, jetcharge, porschetaycan, Taycan, wallbox

Any doubt about the increasing level of interest in EVs in Australia can be quickly removed by a chat with

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2022 Cadillac Lyriq
News 

‘Redefining’ Cadillac Lyriq EV unveiled

August 7, 2020February 14, 2022 Stephen Corby 6103 Views cadillac, Lyriq

Cadillac, the luxury arm of General Motors, has introduced its new electric portfolio, unveiling a new and luxurious full EV,

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What your EV says about you – and how it will change the way you drive

August 1, 2020August 5, 2020 Stephen Corby 1291 Views electric car

Those who profess no interest at all in cars might deny it, but your choice of vehicle is basically a

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