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BlueStar Announces Year End Results for Fiscal Year Ending September 2000 and Conference Call Schedule

5 January 2001

BlueStar Announces Year End Results for Fiscal Year Ending September 2000 and Conference Call Schedule

    RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 5 BlueStar Battery Systems International Corp. (CDNX: BHW) announced that
results of operations for the Company's fiscal fourth quarter and the
12 months ended September 30, 2000, will be released Tuesday, January 9, 2001
after the market closes.
    A conference call will be conducted by James A. Risher, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, and Marty R. Kittrell, Chief Financial Officer, on
Wednesday, January 10, 2001 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.  If you wish to listen
to the conference call, please dial 888-569-5033 or international
719-457-2653 and indicate passcode # 462557.
    The conference call will be recorded, and an automated replay of the
conference call will be available from 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 10,
2001 until 12:00 Midnight Eastern Time, January 12, 2001 by dialing
888-203-1112, or international 719-457-0820 and indicating passcode # 462557.
    BlueStar is one of North America's largest integrated networks for power
and charging systems, providing supplier and customer participants with sales,
marketing, and distribution and support capabilities.  The Company, through
its electronic commerce network, markets products and automotive electric
components from many of the world's finest suppliers.  BlueStar continues to
enhance its product lines through further strategic alliances with the world's
leading manufacturers, along with the strengthening of the BlueStar
participant network throughout North America.  BlueStar's common stock trades
on the Canadian Venture Exchange.