VIASPACE Meets With Customers at Largest U.S. Fuel Cell Show

VIASPACE Inc. exhibited its products and met with current and potential customers and business partners at the Fuel Cell Seminar held in Phoenix, AZ October 28-30, 2008. With 1700 attendees, the Fuel Cell Seminar is the largest fuel cell technical meeting and exhibition in the United States.

VIASPACE and its subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation (DMFCC) had a prominent booth near the exhibit entrance. The VIASPACE display featured disposable fuel cartridges for portable electronics, the HS-1000 fuel cell humidity sensor, a fuel cell test station by Taiwanese partner Hephas Energy, and molded carbon fuel cell components and a fuel cell backup power system by partner GasHub of Singapore. In many applications, fuel cells will be hybridized with batteries, and VIASPACE showed its lines of lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries, as well as its BA-1000 Battery Electrode Health Analyzer product.

A hit with attendees was a folding electric commuter bicycle produced by 3rd Millennium Energy, and powered by VIASPACE lithium polymer battery. The bike has a range of forty miles and can be easily folded so it can be carried onto a bus or commuter train, or stored in the trunk of a car. Since the bike is already electric, it is straightforward to adapt it to a fuel cell.

VAISPACE and DMFCC CEO, Dr. Carl Kukkonen stated, “The Fuel Cell Seminar is a great opportunity to meet both new and established customers. Our partners from Tokai Bussan in Japan, Hephas in Taiwan and GasHub in Singapore helped staff the booth, so we could communicate with customers in their native languages. I was also able to meet with our cartridge customers including Samsung, and Japanese cartridge partner Sato Group.”

Founded in 1998 with the objective of transforming proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today’s complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. VIASPACE is committed to alternative energy and green technologies. For more information, please see http://www.VIASPACE.com or contact Dr. Jan Vandersande, Director of Communications, at 800-517-8050 or IR@VIASPACE.com.