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Solomon Names Dunn to Advisory Board
DANBURY, Conn., March 27, 2008 - Solomon Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:SOLM), today announced the addition of James P. Dunn to its corporate Advisory Board. Mr. Dunn is a well know expert in the fields of alternative energy, energy storage and hybrid vehicles. Mr. Dunn will be chairman of Solomon's Advisory Board and will be responsible for providing direction to the company's technical and market thrust in the alternative energy and motive power fields, including hybrid electric vehicles.
Mr. Dunn is the President of Energy Technology Consultants, and past Director of the NASA Northeast Regional Technology Transfer Center. He also served as the CEO and CTO of the Center for Technology Commercialization in Westborough, MA. Mr. Dunn has over 30 years experience in a variety of high technology ventures in environments ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies, such as IBM and Exxon.
Mr. Dunn has a wealth of experience in the Alternative and Renewable Energy fields, has written numerous papers and presentations on various alternative energy topics and has spoken at over 50 international conferences and events. He has consulted on numerous projects in the solar electric, battery, hybrid vehicle, biofuels, energy storage, hydrogen and fuel cell fields and chaired or moderated various professional conferences including the Second Annual New England Technology Conference, and the SAE Hybrid Electric Vehicle 'TopTech' conference.
Mr. Dunn also works with a variety of renewable energy programs including the annual Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) Tour deSol, and was the chairman of the Monte Carlo Rally and the "100 mpg Challenge" for 2005 and 2006. Mr. Dunn has also conducted several Energy Storage Workshops for NESEA, and received a variety of patents, including several for fuel cell and energy storage devices and, in his earlier career, for the laptop computer.
Mr. Dunn has a B.S.E.E. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and is the Co-founder of the WPI Venture Forum, which provides programs, advice and networking to entrepreneurs & investors. Mr. Dunn has also assisted in launching several new high tech companies at MIT, and won the MIT Energy SIG Business Plan contest in 2007. He was also the Technical Advisor for the MIT Solar House entered in the 2007 DOE Solar Decathlon competition with 20 other teams from across the world.
"I am pleased that Jim has joined us as chairman of our Advisory Board", commented Peter W. DeVecchis, Jr., President of Solomon. "Jim's leadership in alternative energy technologies, including intimate familiarity with our Electric Wheel and Electric Transaxle patents, will be a key component in our continuing effort to commercialize these assets. I am looking forward to working with Jim in identifying the most promising opportunities and focusing our resources in those areas."
Mr. Dunn commented, "I am particularly excited about helping the team at Solomon maximize the Company's potential through a focus on its existing assets and intellectual property as well as identifying new opportunities that dovetail with its strong technology base in power systems and power electronics. The opportunities in these markets are large, as is the applicability of Solomon's technology across a broad range of these segments. I look forward to working closely with Peter DeVecchis, and the whole Solomon team, to exploit the opportunities to the fullest."

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Solomon Technologies, Inc., through its Motive Power and Power Electronics divisions, develops, licenses, manufactures and sells precision electric power drive systems, including those utilizing its patented Electric Wheel(tm), Electric Transaxle(tm) and hybrid and regenerative technologies as well as direct current power supplies and power supply systems requiring high levels of reliability and ruggedness for defense, aerospace, marine, commercial, automotive, 'hybrid-electric' and 'all-electric' vehicle applications.
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