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To: craig crawford who wrote (488)	7/9/2001 11:29:29 AM
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Monday July 9, 8:07 am Eastern Time Electric Fuel's All Electric Bus Completes Full City Test Drive - World Record for Zero-Emission City Bus Drive - NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Fuel Corporation (Nasdaq: EFCX - news) announced today that it had completed another major milestone in Phase II of its Zinc-Air All Electric Transit Bus program with the Federal Transit Administration. In a recently completed test drive, the bus traveled 97 miles under typical city bus driving conditions, including stop and go, acceleration and constant speed, which the Company believes to be a world record. As a measure of comparison, the average normal full day cycle for New York City buses is less than 90 miles. The Company believes that these test results indicate that all-electric buses utilizing Electric Fuel's Zinc-Air technology have sufficient range to offer a practical solution for helping to eliminate bus pollution in central cities. The majority of the drives were performed on a half-mile test track at Schenectady (New York) County Airport in the police training center. The test also marked the finalization of adjustments of the test control logic system and verified all data acquisition operations. The Electric Fuel All Electric Transit Bus is designed to operate as a full-size, zero emission 40-foot bus having a 20-ton gross vehicle weight (including passengers) and operating all standard bus features, including air conditioning. Mr. Yoel Gilon, Manager, Electric Vehicle Program of Electric Fuel, said, ``This is another major step in the performance testing of our Zinc Air fuel cell technology, and we believe that we are well on the way to demonstrating the readiness of our technology for city bus operations.'' Mr. Yehuda Harats, Electric Fuel's President and Chief Executive Officer, said, ``This very encouraging test gives us continuing confidence that we will soon be able to offer industry and government a cost-effective, zero-emission solution for polluted central city environments.''