VIASPACE Wins Global Distributorship for HYB Premium Lithium Ion Batteries

PASADENA, Calif., May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), announced today that it has signed an agreement to
globally distribute the rechargeable lithium ion batteries produced by HYB
Battery Co. Ltd, a technology leader in China. HYB, founded in 1999, produces
high-quality, yet low-cost batteries. HYB batteries are used in a wide range
of portable electronic applications, a $6 Billion market sector, including
notebook computers, digital video and still cameras, GPS devices, and mobile
phones. In addition, HYB also produces high discharge rate batteries for
power tools, uninterruptible power supplies and light electric vehicles. HYB
high quality has been audited and certified by 12 major customers. Its current
customer list includes industry leaders such as Samsung, Tyco, Garmin,
Philips, VARTA, Foxconn, and CelExpert.
HYB Battery Co. Ltd.'s 500,000 m2 manufacturing facility is located in
Shenzhen, China. With 1600 employees and modern automated equipment, HYB's
current capacity is 300,000 pieces per day. Production capacity is scheduled
to double in the next 12 months. HYB has extensive quality and safety control
procedures. They are ISO 9001 and 14001 certified, and their products are
approved by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), CE marked and RoHS compliant. HYB
produces cylindrical cells in the standard 18650, 14430 and other sizes. They
have 20 different sizes of prismatic cells, and high-capacity cells with
energy storage capacities ranging from 8-80 amp hours.
VIASPACE CEO Carl Kukkonen stated, "HYB has the precision batteries needed
for demanding applications that require highest uniformity and quality, such
as such as notebook computers and cell phones HYB already has batteries in
commercial digital video and still cameras, cordless phones, and portable GPS
systems. We will represent HYB in their existing market sectors, and develop
new business in high-power applications such as power tools, electric bicycles
and scooters, where we see market projections of a 400% increase in sales in
the next two years. The VIASPACE Energy business unit focuses on alternative
energy and portable power solutions. HYB adds great new rechargeable battery
product line that complements our current battery and fuel cell products. HYB
manufactures high quality batteries with an excellent safety record, and they
sell them at a substantially lower cost than their Japanese and Korean
competitors that currently dominate this $6 Billion marketplace."
About VIASPACE: Founded in 1998 with the objective of transforming proven
space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into
hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE
benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which
manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. VIASPACE is located in Pasadena
California. For more information, please see www.VIASPACE.com, or contact Dr.
Jan Vandersande, Director of Communications at 800-517-8050, or
IR@VIASPACE.com.
This news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-
looking statements relate to future events or our future performance and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. Such factors include the risks outlined in our periodic filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, as well as general
economic and business conditions, the ability to acquire and develop specific
projects and technologies, the ability to fund operations, changes in consumer
and business consumption habits, and other factors over which VIASPACE has
little or no control.
SOURCE VIASPACE Inc.

Press contact: Carl Kukkonen, +1-626-768-3360, for VIASPACE Inc.