Electrovaya Launches The Scribbler™ Sc2000 Series, A Laptop/Tablet Pc With A Winning Combination Of Power, Battery Life, Size, Weight And Detachable Keyboard

  • Toronto, Ontario –
  • November 6, 2003
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TORONTO, ONTARIO -Electrovaya Inc. (TSX: EFL) today announced the launch of the Scribbler™ SC2000 series, a laptop/tablet PC with the winning combination of power provided by the Intel® Centrino processor and unprecedented 70 Wh of Electrovaya’s thin Li Ion SuperPolymer® battery provides 5 to 9 hours runtime. All of this is elegantly packaged in a thin 0.75”, 3.1 lb portable device that includes fingerprint security feature, a 40GB Hard Drive and up to 768 MB of RAM.

“Its advanced design and sleek appearance enables an unmatched computing experience. The Scribbler™ SC2000 series design can be adapted to tablet or laptop configurations. Furthermore, no other portable computing device comes close to the functionality and runtime of the Scribbler™ SC2000 series ” said Dr. Sankar Das Gupta, CEO of Electrovaya.

“Electrovaya’s Scribbler™ SC2000 series is the next-generation Tablet PC enabling a new range of computing capabilities,” said Bill Mitchell, vice president of the Tablet PC Division at Microsoft Corp. “The enhanced mobility features and extended battery life of the Scribbler SC2000 allow users to take full advantage of the power and functionality in the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system and ink-enabled applications.”

“Electrovaya’s battery technology is second to none. We tested the battery life and were extremely impressed. We can’t say enough about that,” said Dr. Richard Przybylski, Senior Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin and concluded, “The Scribbler is a fine piece of equipment. The ease of use and maintainability were bar-none the best encountered. The word is out in our company and is spreading”.

“Performance of the Electrovaya battery was awesome. After the first day of theconference, during which we had operated the Scribbler™ SC2000 for slightly over seven hours, we had depleted only three-quarters of the available charge. No other mobile computing device we’ve ever used has had this capability,” said Dan Guatto, President ofHalton Hills Hydro.

“With its full day runtime, I use the Scribbler daily for all of my work” noted Dr. Steven Thorpe, Vice Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at University of Toronto.
The wireless enabled laptop/tablet PC, SC 2000 series comes with a 1.2GHz Intel® Centrino processor, a biometrics fingerprint recognition feature, up to 768MB of RAM, 40GB hard drive, firewire, built in Wi-Fi, a 12.1” screen and a light detachable keyboard.

About Electrovaya:

Electrovaya’s goal is to become the leading provider of tablet PC’s, portable power for the notebook computer and wireless sectors, and to apply its technology to a broad spectrum of alternative energy applications including UPS, stand-by power and zero-emission vehicles. It develops, manufactures and sells high value products globally using award winning patented proprietary lithium ion SuperPolymer® rechargeable battery technology, which delivers the highest energy density of any battery technology on the market today. Electrovaya has designed, developed and markets the SCRIBBLER Tablet PC which offers significantly longer run time than any other Tablet PC currently available. The Company’s shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol EFL.

For more information about the Company and its products, please visit www.electrovaya.com.

Contact person:

Julia Harrison
905.855.4610 ext. 3099
jharrison@electrovaya.com

2645 Royal Windsor Dr., Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 1K9 Canada