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AFS Trinity Power Corporation is a private company that owns the world’s largest portfolio of flywheel technologies, which span the entire power/energy spectrum from short duration, high kilowatt power quality systems to long duration true energy storage systems. The Company is developing advanced flywheel systems for power quality, distributed generation, light rail power management, alternative energy systems, hybrid electric vehicles and spacecraft.

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Official Website

AFSTrinity.com (http://www.afstrinity.com/)

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Hybrid Drive Train

The Extreme Hybrid™ (http://afstrinity.com/extr-tech.html) - drive train for a Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle is expected to enable cars to achieve 250 MPG by combining a Lithium-ion battery pack with a bank of ultracapacitors. Fast Energy Storage™ enables high top speeds and rapid acceleration in electric-only mode, as well as greater regenerative braking capability.

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Flywheel Systems

AFS Trinity’s first Flywheel Power Systems (http://www.afstrinity.com/other-facts-faqs.html)

The first AFS Trinity product is a high speed, high strength carbon composite flywheel, with a unique inside-out configuration for its ironless permanent magnet motor generator.

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History

AFS Trinity was formed on December 5, 2000, through the combination of two predecessor companies, American Flywheel Systems, Inc. (AFS), incorporated in 1991, and Trinity Flywheel Power (Trinity) which was incorporated in 1993. To the Company, AFS brought the world’s first and largest portfolio of advanced flywheel energy storage technology. At the same time, Trinity brought to the Company complementary short ride time flywheel power technology, for which it has the exclusive license from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a first-to-market composite flywheel product capable of addressing critical power quality and distributed generation applications for the digital economy.

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In the News

AFS TRINITY UNVEILS 250 MILE PER GALLON VEHICLE PROGRAM AT GIRVAN MEETING (http://www.afstrinity.com/cmp-press.html)- FEBRUARY 23, 2005

Privately-held AFS Trinity Power Corporation unveiled a flywheel-based technology at a Girvan Institute meeting today that the company expects will make it possible for the average American driver to achieve more than 250 miles per gallon fuel economy in a sedan and 200 miles per gallon in an SUV.

According to AFS Trinity CEO Edward W. Furia, what the company calls the Extreme Hybrid™ drive train is expected to lower driving costs, cut emissions, and reduce American dependence on foreign oil. Related hybrid bus technology is expected to be deployed by AFS Trinity in a DOT demonstration project next year. The passenger car drive train is expected to begin development this year, be demonstrated in a prototype vehicle in two years and be ready for licensing to U.S. and foreign carmakers in three.

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