TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - January 12, 2016) - Electrovaya Inc. (TSX: EFL) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Litarion GmbH, has received a purchase order for about US$16 million (Cdn $23 million) to supply 40 Ah Lithium Ion cells (Litacell-LC40) to an US based company.

The purchase order is for a period of 14 months, the deliveries have started and the first payment received. The period of this contract is until January 2017. The order was received through Targray, an Advanced Materials supplier in the Alternate Power and Energy space.

"We are seeing large requirements for Electrovaya-Litarion's Lithium ion cells and expect this to be the start of an increasing demand in the fast growing energy storage business," said Karen Richardson, Manager, Battery Division, Targray Technology International Inc.

"Our Litacell-LC40 gives unique values to the customer and great performance advantages over our competitors. Our cells show immense improvements in safety and delivers nearly double the cycle life. Customers are demanding highest safety. They are also demanding lowest cost which we meet as increasing cycle life allows our customers to enjoy lowest cost per cycle," said Dr. Andre Mecklenburg, Chief Operating Officer of Litarion.

"Our revenue pipeline is growing quickly with demand from all sectors of the industry including energy storage and e-mobility," said Dr. Raj Das Gupta, VP Business Development, Electrovaya. "The technical performance of our cells and batteries are superior to competition because of our unique disruptive technology in this lithium ion space. This is the first major order for our Litacell-LC40, whose availability was recently announced in October 2015."

About Electrovaya Inc.

Electrovaya Inc. (TSX: EFL) designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium Ion Super Polymer® batteries, battery systems, and battery-related products for energy storage, clean electric transportation and other specialized applications. Electrovaya, through its fully owned subsidiary, Litarion GmbH, also produces cells, electrodes and SEPARION^® ceramic separators and has manufacturing capacity of about 500MWh/annum. Electrovaya is a technology focused company with extensive IP. Headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Electrovaya has production facilities in Canada and Germany with customers around the globe.

To learn more about how Electrovaya and Litarion is powering mobility and energy storage, please explore www.electrovaya.com , www.litarion.com and www.separion.com

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