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Emerging Environmental Technology Company, Sabertec, Offers
More Than $30,000 in Green Scholarship Dollars for Student-Made Global
Warming Videos

Visit www.BladeYourRide.com/byr-scholarship.html to cast a vote for your favorite video; Contest
winner will receive a $10,000 Scholarship; All voters will have an opportunity to win Five Hundred
Dollars and a Blade, Sabertec’s breakthrough vehicle emissions reduction device.

AUSTIN, TX (November 3, 2008) – Sabertec (www.sabertec.org), an emerging environmentaltechnology company that specializes in the development of affordable vehicle emissions reductionsolutions that help curb air pollution and global warming, is calling on the general public to determine thegrand-prize winner of their Blade Your Ride Scholarship (BYRS) contest. All voters will have anopportunity to win $500 and a Blade (http://www.BladeYourRide.com), Sabertec’s groundbreaking devicethat attaches to the tailpipe of a car, SUV, light duty truck or Hybrid to reduce CO2 emissions up to 12%,capture toxic particulate material (PM) and increase fuel economy up to six miles per gallon.

Over the past year, the Blade Your Ride Scholarship has challenged environmentally active college anduniversity students from around the country to create webcast videos that raise awareness about both thecauses and consequences of air pollution and global warming, while highlighting Blade as part of thesolution.

Hundreds of applicants submitted Blade-inspired videos, and after a long and rigorous selection process,only four remain. Judging criteria for submitted videos was based on the originality, creativity andeffectiveness of the webcast. Each of the four finalists have already been awarded a $5,000 Scholarshipfrom Sabertec. The finalists are Louise Dreier of Columbia University, Emmanuel Igbinosa of StanfordUniversity, Christopher Masi of Biola University and Tristan Vaughan of George Washington University.Now Sabertec is asking Americans to go online and vote for their favorite video to determine which finalistshould be awarded the grand prize of an additional $10,000.

“The Blade Your Ride Scholarship was created to help students gain access to affordable education whileinspiring their peers to take action, reduce their impact on the environment and increase awareness aboutnew green technologies like Blade, which are essential to the revitalization of our country’s economy,”said Bill O’Brien, CEO of Sabertec.

“We announced the Scholarship in September 2007 and in just nine months we received over a hundred video submissions. Narrowing down our top finalists was incredibly difficult, but the creativity, intellect and vision expressed in these four webcasts blew us away.”

“We are big supporters of education at Sabertec, which is why we established the Blade Your RideScholarship in the early stages of our company’s development. Seeing the amount of passion and effortstudents put into creating these videos encourages us to invest even more into this program next year.With today’s uncertain economic situation, where access to student loans is being tightened andbecoming less available, it is more important than ever that companies step up to play a role in fosteringhigher education,” said Ashley Fontaine, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Sabertec.

How to Vote:

The 2008 Presidential election isn’t the only vote you’ll be asked to make this November. To view andvote for the finalists videos, log onto Sabertec’s Scholarship homepage www.BladeYourRide.com/byr-scholarship.html.

Voting will take place from October 29 to November 30, 2008. All viewers who cast their vote during thistime period will be given a 10% discount code that will be valid on any Blade purchase through November30, 2008.

The BYRS grand-prize winner will be announced December 15, 2008 on www.BladeYourRide.comHow to Enter to Win the $500 and FREE Blade:

Sabertec came up with the slogan: Blade Your Ride… because you should feel good about what youdrive. Voters will have an opportunity to enter their idea for a new Blade Your Ride slogan on the 2008Blade Your Ride Scholarship Official Ballot. The voter who enters the most original, creative and effectivenew Blade Your Ride slogan will win $500 and a FREE Blade.

The winner will be announced December 15, 2008 on www.BladeYourRide.com

How to Submit in 2009:

Want to apply for next year’s BYRS video competition? Log onto the BYRS homepage at www.BladeYourRide.com/byr-scholarship.html to learn about the guidelines and application process.Video submissions will be accepted immediately following the announcement of the 2008 grand-prizewinner.

About Sabertec

Sabertec, based in Austin, Texas, is on the vanguard of solving environmental challenges throughtechnology, education and the inspiration of behavioral change. Sabertec products reduce fossil fuelburning engine emissions that are known contributors to global warming as well as health consequencesincluding cancer, strokes and respiratory diseases. Launched in 2008, Blade, www.bladeyourride.com isthe company’s first consumer product available in the United States. Blade was developed utilizingSabertec’s patent pending impact filtration method which is the core technology in their IDPF product.IDPF has been reducing toxic diesel particulate matter emissions on commercial bus fleets in Sao Paulo,Brazil since 2005. www.Sabertec.org