Torvec Infinitely Variable

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 16 -- Torvec, Inc.'s (OTC Bulletin Board: TOVC) Board of Directors announced today that it had completed the qualification review of domestic and international diesel engine providers. As a result, Torvec has made arrangements with a major diesel engine manufacturer to supply it with the most advanced diesel engines to test its Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT) in order to meet the ever-increasing diesel emission standards throughout the world. The engines are electronically controlled, and Torvec utilizes this electronic data to interact with its IVT. For current engines without adequate electronics, Torvec is working with Malone Specialty, Inc. of Mentor OH, an automotive electronics company, to design an electronic controller that enables existing diesel engines to interact effectively with Torvec's transmission. These additional electronic design interfaces are expected to provide Torvec with access to a much larger potential market (retrofit).

About Malone Specialty Inc. Malone Specialty Inc. is one of the leading suppliers of metric, British, and foreign threaded fluid connecting products for industrial, construction, and truck transportation applications in the United States and Canada.

About Torvec Inc. Torvec Inc., based in Rochester, New York, develops advanced automotive technologies that increase transportation safety, mobility, fuel efficiency and reduce soot emissions. Torvec owns the technologies for an Infinitely Variable Transmission that reduces diesel soot emissions, a Fast Tracked Vehicle (FTV(TM)) that goes where no 4x4 can, novel designs of hydraulic pumps and constant velocity joints, and Ice Technology to increase tire traction on ice and de-ice windshields. Torvec's founders invented the famous Torsen(R) differential used in high-performance vehicles. To learn more about Torvec's many technologies and view a video of its FTV(TM), visit http://www.torvec.com.