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    Articles by Stephen Corby

    Stephen Corby
    Contributing Journalist

    Stephen Corby stumbled into writing about cars after being knocked off the motorcycle he’d been writing about by a mob of angry and malicious kangaroos. Or that’s what he says, anyway. Back in the early 1990s, Stephen was working at The Canberra Times, writing about everything from politics to exciting Canberra night life, but for fun he wrote about motorcycles.

    After crashing a bike he’d borrowed, he made up a colourful series of excuses, which got the attention of the motoring editor, who went on to encourage him to write about cars instead. The rest, as they say, is his story.

    Reviewing and occasionally poo-pooing cars has taken him around the world and into such unexpected jobs as editing TopGear Australia magazine and then the very venerable Wheels magazine, albeit briefly. When that mag moved to Melbourne and Stephen refused to leave Sydney he became a freelancer, and has stayed that way ever since, which allows him to contribute, happily, to CarsGuide.

    Tesla electric cars in Australia: Everything you need to know
    By Stephen Corby · 08 Sep 2022
    Since strutting onto the global stage 18 years ago, with the not-so-humble aim of becoming both a car manufacturer and a technology company, Tesla, and its high-profile boss Elon Musk, have become as synonymous with electric vehicles as Apple is with smartphones.
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    The top 5 reasons to consider an electric car
    By Stephen Corby · 07 Sep 2022
    The 'electric cars vs petrol cars' debate is a curious one, since there's not really a whole lot to debate: EVs don’t use fossil fuels and thus don't emit the kind of harmful greenhouse gases that make Mother Nature, and her favourite daughter Greta Thunberg, very sad indeed.
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    Top 5 facts about electric cars and myths debunked
    By Stephen Corby · 31 Aug 2022
    Although electric vehicles  seem like they’ve only recently popped up out of nowhere to sneakily infiltrate any motoring-related conversation, they are far from being an overnight sensation, with the development of crude EVs dating all the way back to the mid-19th century. 
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    Everything you need to know about hybrid vehicle tax credits and incentives in Australia
    By Stephen Corby · 30 Aug 2022
    If you want a good example of how government incentives for electric vehicles (EVs) can encourage consumer uptake, then we must turn our attention to the land of Vikings, fjords and men named Bjørn: Norway.  Fuel-reliant internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles are more expensive in Norway, and are subject to a carbon tax, weight tax, and 25 per cent sales tax - approximately 50 per cent tax in
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    Honda hybrids in Australia: Everything you need to know
    By Stephen Corby · 29 Aug 2022
    As one of the world's largest manufacturers of internal-combustion engines (ICE) measured by volume - cranking out a whopping 14 million of them annually - you’d expect that Japanese car manufacturer Honda would be well ahead of the curve in terms of alternate fuel sources, now that traditional engines are slowly but surely being phased out due to environmental concerns. 
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    Lexus hybrid cars in Australia: Everything you need to know
    By Stephen Corby · 23 Aug 2022
    Lexus, the luxury division of Japanese auto giant Toyota, passed the major milestone of having sold two million electrified vehicles - meaning electric vehicles (EVs), hybrids and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) - in the first quarter of 2021, a signifier of the brand’s long-term commitment to reducing CO2 emissions and having a more positive environmental impact.
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    Best second-hand electric cars in Australia
    By Stephen Corby · 23 Aug 2022
    It’s been a decade since the Nissan Leaf arrived on Australian roads promising to revolutionise the automotive industry. It was followed shortly after by the Tesla Model S and BMW i3 and now most major car brands either have, or are preparing to launch, their own electric vehicle (EV).
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    The top 10 electric commercial vehicles to keep an eye on in Australia
    By Stephen Corby · 05 Aug 2022
    For the uninitiated, “commercial vehicles” aren’t cars that star in TV ads. What the term actually refers to are any vehicles designed to transport multiple passengers or carry goods, and they typically come in the form of a van or a ute/pick-up truck.
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    The top 9 electric vehicle manufacturers
    By Stephen Corby · 27 Jul 2022
    Shouting about climate change and car emissions seems to have been going on for decades, but it’s not that long ago that the idea of banning the sale of fossil fuel-consuming internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles would have been unimaginable.
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    EV charging stations in Australia explained
    By Stephen Corby · 27 Jul 2022
    There are a lot of things to dislike about service stations: petrol pump nozzles you need to insert and withdraw a dozen times before they work, water to wash your windscreen with that looks like it’s been retrieved from a toilet and rest rooms that more often than not look like crime scenes. And smell worse.
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