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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.

    The pros and cons of electric cars
    By Stephen Corby · 26 Oct 2023
    Sure, Elon Musk might make electric vehicles sound as exciting and incredible as the Millennium Falcon, but really, they're just cars, with a new, or at least less common, form of motive force. 
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    How do electric cars work?
    By Stephen Corby · 26 Oct 2023
    Full electric vehicles (EVs) work by using an electric motor powered by a rechargeable battery pack, rather than using a traditional petrol-powered internal-combustion engine (ICE). 
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    The top five fastest electric cars in the world
    By Stephen Corby · 26 Oct 2023
    Using the speed of acceleration from zero to 100km/h as a measure, the fastest electric car in the world is Japanese hypercar the Aspark Owl, which accelerates from 0-100km/h in 1.9 seconds. Using top speed as a measure, the Rimac C Two is the fastest electric car, top speed being 415km/h. 
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    Who builds batteries for electric cars? EV battery manufacturers explained
    By Stephen Corby · 24 Oct 2023
    There are a number of manufacturers around the world who supply the batteries used in Electric Vehicles (EVs). In 2020, the top five manufacturers controlled a huge 77.3 per cent of the market. 
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    Hybrid vs plug-in hybrid: What's the difference?
    By Stephen Corby · 20 Sep 2023
    The main difference when looking at a hybrid vs a plug in hybrid is that the former is powered by both a petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine and a battery-powered electric motor that can work either independently or simultaneously, whereas the latter is powered chiefly by an electric motor and will only use its internal-combustion engine as a back-up should your electric motor’s battery run
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    Electric cars vs petrol cars: What are the pros and cons of going electric?
    By Stephen Corby · 20 Sep 2023
    Although cars with internal-combustion engines have been the norm for well over a century now, they are slowly but surely on their way out due to the development of vehicles like electric cars that are far better for the environment.
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    EV charging apps: The top 5 electric car apps for owners
    By Stephen Corby · 30 Aug 2023
    One of the major advantages of driving a petrol-powered car is that unless you’re deep in the outback or have taken a serious wrong turn in the middle of nowhere, you can always rest easy knowing that a petrol station where you can refuel is never too far away. 
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    Electric utes: The 8 best EV utes we would love to see in Australia
    By Stephen Corby · 07 Jul 2023
    Utes are as intrinsically Australian as a John Farnham comeback concert - we invented the, after all - so it’s no huge surprise to learn that the two best-selling vehicles here last year were the Toyota HiLux and the Ford Ranger. 
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    Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 review
    By Stephen Corby · 04 Jul 2023
    Charles Rolls, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, predicted that electric vehicles would one day be the gold standard of motoring, back in 1900, and it's taken just 123 years for his company to nail the brief with its first EV, the Spectre, a spectacular combination of beauty and power on wheels. So, with the company pledging to be fully electric by 2030, does the Spectre succeed?
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    Lamborghini Huracan 2023 review: Sterrato
    By Stephen Corby · 23 May 2023
    It sounds like a joke, or an after-market fever dream, and it looks a bit like one, too, but the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato is actually a thing - the world's first All-terrain Supercar. A V10-powered wild thing designed to be driven sideways, at speed, on dirt. Who doesn't want to get gravel rash on their half-a-million-dollar Lamborghini, eh?
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