Boston-Power, Inc. was founded in 2005 in Boston and engages in the manufacture and distribution of lithium-ion batteries for transportation, utility energy storage, portable power, and government market applications. It offers high energy density, wide operating temperature, long life and safety lithium-ion cells, battery blocks and battery modules. Having found initial commercial success in portable power applications, Boston-Power's customers, such as Hewlett-Packard and ASUS were able to offer "green" battery solutions with long life warranties for the first time in the notebook industry. Today, Boston-Power's cell technology has been optimized to meet the demanding requirements of electric vehicles (EV). Beyond electric vehicles, Boston-Power's products are used in a wide range of industrial and consumer electronics applications spanning medical equipment, robotics, aerospace, stationary power, electric lawnmowers, specialty lighting, tracking devices and remote sensing. Boston-Power has been a long time supplier to NASA where its technology is being developed for us in battery packs for robots and space vehicles. Boston-Power is a global company with R&D and engineering centers of excellence in Westborough, MA and Beijing, China as well as production facilities in both China and Taiwan. Having filed over 150 patent applications encompassing a wide range of energy storage technologies and systems, Boston-Power has been issued over 90 patents.