Powerzinc in South Africa
　

Mr. Richard Yang, President & CEO, Mr. D.Q.Yang, CTO and Ms. Wei Shao, Executive Assistant attended an exciting zinc air fuel cell pilot project at KWA MPUNGOSE district in South Africa on May 15th, 2002. The Alternative Energy Development Corp., a South African company, and the KWA MPUNGOSE Traditional Authority launched this project. The KWA MPUNGOSE district is a typical rural area without Electricity. The project aims to lighten up the darken land by using Powerzinc's DQFC zinc air fuel cell as stationary power supply. In this event, the lights and the microphones in the conference hall, hundreds of lights outside the conference hall located in an area about a few miles radius were all powered by Powerzinc's DQFC zinc air fuel cells. About 130 people from 10 countries attended this significant event, Including South African government officials, businessmen and journalists from South Africa, Canada and Europe. Dr. S.T. Hsieh, the Director of U.S./China Energy & Environmental Technology Center of Tulane University (EETC) in New Orleans, an organization 100% funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, also participated in the event. All of the participants were very excited about this new technology that brings light to Africa.

After the launch, Powerzinc's DQFC series zinc air fuel cells will be used to power 4,000 households in the rural area and the Electric bikes in South Africa. It will provide affordable self-sustainable and environmentally friendly power source to the African continent. It will also offer lots of employment opportunity to the local communities.

About Powerzinc

Powerzinc Electric, Inc. is a California-based Hi-Tech company. It is dedicated to the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of advanced zinc-air fuel cells and entire manufacture facilities, along with fuel cells refuel service platform. Through years of R&D, Powerzinc has achieved significant breakthroughs in zinc-air fuel cell technology and developed the high power, large energy, long-lasting, low cost and environment-friendly power and energy source. Its innovative products - DQFC series of zinc-air fuel cells with creative design and process technology is a totally renewable energy for electric vehicles and various other applications today. 

About Powerzinc Electric (Shanghai), Inc

In Shanghai, China, Powerzinc has established a zinc-air fuel cell manufacturing and service model plant to commercialize the technology and its products. The plant is ready for commercial-scale production. The Company has started supplying DQFC series zinc-air fuel cells to manufacturers of Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters. In the near future, the new series of DQFC zinc-air fuel cells for Electric Buses, Defense and Security, Communication and other applications will be available to the commercial market soon to satisfy the real highly growing demand anywhere in the world.