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A comment on Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial trials.

Re:Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial tr... by Animats on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:12PM (#22952491)
This is one of those "either a major breakthrough or total bullshit" articles. OK, first, who's "Brightsun"? These guys? [1]

- Last news item on their site is from 2015. No mention of a battery breakthrough. No mention of battery R&D at all.

- Address on web site is 50 Hidden Grove Blvd, Keysborough Vic 3173 Australia. That's somebody's house.[2] An alternative address on the web site is Level 1 530 Little Collins Str, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia. That's an office building. Level 1 seems to be a strip club.[4]

- Related companies. [3] They built an electric bus prototype in 2015, and it got a record for longest distance on a single charge, but not using any exotic battery technology. Just a big bus with a big battery.

Where did "newmobility.global" get this story? They don't cite a reporter. They don't cite a press release. Is someone doing a third party pump and dump here?

[1] http://brighsunauto.com/Index_En.asp http://brighsuntech.com/

[2] https://earth.google.com/web/@-38.00666219,145.15557573,13.3...

[3] https://www.aubiz.net/company/brighsun-ev-group-pty-ltd-1668...

[4] https://bigboysclub.com.au/

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Re:Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial tr... by close04 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:47AM (#22953698)
> Where did "newmobility.global" get this story?

Most other sites presenting the same news included the paragraph at the end suggesting it was a press release on the manufacturer's website. Example [0]. I linked to the original source below [1].

[0] https://www.jcnnewswire.com/pressrelease/58590/2/2000-km-on-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950468

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Re:Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial tr... by Animats on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:17PM (#22961555)
The press release is better than the "story".
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Re:Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial tr... by knolax on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:33AM (#22954862)
Plenty of reasons to doubt the claims made in TFA, but I don't think business addresses (and as other commenters have pointed out) a shitty website are good reasons. That just seems like a shallow leap of logic to me.

> They built an electric bus prototype in 2015, and it got a record for longest distance on a single charge, but not using any exotic battery technology. Just a big bus with a big battery

Do you have a source for that?

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Re:Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial tr... by close04 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:45AM (#22955315)
It's under the news section on one of their websites I listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950468
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