Trojan Battery Launches Deep-Cycle Gel™ line for Maintenance Free Customer Convenience

SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA, August 3, 2007 - Trojan Battery Company, the world's leading manufacturer of deep cycle batteries, today announced the availability of its Deep-Cycle Gel™ line of sealed lead acid batteries. Trojan's introduction of Deep-Cycle Gel will expand its market share in following markets: floor machine, aerial work platform (AWP), and golf and utility vehicles.

Trojan's Deep-Cycle Gel batteries are completely maintenance free and require no watering while providing customers long-lasting runtime and battery life in the most demanding of applications. Utilizing a proprietary Gel formulation, Trojan's Deep-Cycle Gel product line provide longer cycle life than other Gel or AGM technologies making it best in its class.

With superior engineering, the Deep-Cycle Gel line offers exceptional durability and is certified nonspillable (UN2800) for air, sea or ground transportation, thus making it an optimal solution for use in health & safety-sensitive (HSE) environments such as schools, hospitals, airports and office buildings.

"We are very excited about this product line for it will allow us to offer our customers additional quality maintenance free products that complement our flooded deep cycle batteries in our core industrial and recreational markets," said David Godber, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Trojan Battery. "With a broader deep cycle product line, we can leverage our extensive application expertise with OEMs to help them select the right battery for their unique requirements."

The Deep-Cycle Gel batteries are also available through Trojan's Master Distributor Network in the following sizes: 24-Gel, 27-Gel, 31-Gel, and 6V-Gel (GC2). The Deep-Cycle 24-Gel and 27-Gel products replace Trojan's SuperGel SG-70 and SG-90 products.

About Trojan Battery Company
Trojan Battery Company is the world's leading manufacturer of deep cycle batteries and a longtime battery technology pioneer, having built the first golf car battery in 1952. Trojan batteries provide power for a wide variety of industrial, recreational and auxiliary power applications. Trojan Battery Company, founded in 1925, is ISO 9001:2000 certified with operations in California and Georgia.

For Media inquiries please contact: Kari Weinberger, Marketing Communications at 562-236-3038 or kweinberger@trojanbattery.com.