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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.
Tesla Cybertruck
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Where are all the exciting-looking EVs?

July 16, 2020July 28, 2020 Stephen Corby 2523 Views audi e-tron, electric car, ev design, jaguar i-pace, Mazda MX-30, mercedes-benz eqs, mercedeseqc, styling, tesla cybertruck

Look, there’s no doubt that if you’re a fan of door wedges, or Blade Runner films, Tesla’s Cybertruck is very

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Opinion 

Why haven’t EV makers tackled the art of great sound?

July 9, 2020July 8, 2020 Stephen Corby 2044 Views ev, ev sounds, noise

Ask any self-interested futurist – or just watch a few slick documentaries about artificial intelligence and the end of life

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Videos 

BMW chooses Hollywood royalty to create its EV sounds

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Stephen Corby 1987 Views bmw, bmw vision m next, electric car, electric vehicle, sound

Read the full story on how Oscar winner Hans Zimmer is creating futuristic sounds for electrified BMWs.

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EV News 

Hollywood to the rescue for BMW’s future EV sounds

July 4, 2020July 15, 2020 Stephen Corby 3338 Views bmw, bmw concept, car sound, electric car, electric vehicle, ev sound, hans zimmer, vision m next

Hans Zimmer has, quite literally, the coolest office in the world. Picture a bordello, a bar and a high-tech, Blade

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Harley-Davidson LiveWire
EV News 

Electric Harley-Davidson – Come on, don’t feel the noise

July 3, 2020July 15, 2020 Stephen Corby 4160 Views electric harley, ev, ev motorcycle, harley-davidson, Harley-Davidson EV, motorcycle

Other than the profoundly deaf, it’s not instantly obvious just who an electric Harley-Davidson might be aimed at. Perhaps more

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2020 BMW i3s battery electric vehicle
News 

EVs set to cop road user charge

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020 Stephen Corby 1601 Views australian government, ev, fuel excise, road user charge

Government to hit electric car buyers with user-pays road charging to make up for billions lost in fuel excise. Government

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Opinion 

Australia left behind as rest of the world accelerates with EVs

June 29, 2020July 2, 2020 Stephen Corby 3185 Views australia, australian government, electric car, electric car subsidies, ev, government assistance

OPINION It is surprisingly easy to make senior car-company people angry, or even tearful. Or, at least, it is if

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2015 BMW i3
EV News Technology 

BMW to double energy density, and halve the size, of EV batteries

June 10, 2020November 3, 2020 Stephen Corby 3145 Views batteries, bmw, energy density, ev, EV batteries, EV range, EV tech, EV technology, EV weight. EV handling, EVs, Mini, Range, Range anxiety, solid state batteries

BMW is confident it can double the density of its EV batteries by 2030, using either an improved form of

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2020 Tesla Model 3 Performance
EV Opinion 

Why I was ignorant, foolish and just plain wrong about Electric Vehicles – a former Wheels editor confesses

June 2, 2020June 24, 2020 Stephen Corby 3364 Views Column, Comment, EV Electric Vehicle, Ferrari, Mitsubishi i-Mi-EV, Nissan Leaf, porsche, Porsche 911, Porsche Taycan, Tesla, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model S

So, let’s say you’re a huge movie buff and one day you’re stunned to hear that a few radical studios

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Car reviews EV Reviews 

Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS concept car drive

May 22, 2020June 27, 2020 Stephen Corby 4936 Views ev, Limousine, Luxury EV, Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS review, S-Class, Vision EQS

Concept cars are a bit like models or movie stars – they look fantastic in pictures, and even better if

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