Exide Awarded Battery Supply Contracts by German Army

Exide will supply approximately 15,000 units of itsmaintenance-free NATO bloc batteries to the German Army formilitary-vehicle applications. The 12-volt/100-amphere-hour gelbatteries are scheduled for delivery in 2005. The batteries will beproduced at Exide's manufacturing plants in Budingen and BadLauterberg, Germany.

"Exide has a long history as a battery supplier to military forcesaround the world," said Neil Bright, President - Industrial EnergyEurope. "The German Army has relied on our technology forapproximately 23 years, and its decision to again use Exide batteriesspeaks volumes about the quality and reliability of our products,services and people."

About Exide Technologies

Exide Technologies, with operations in 89 countries, is one of theworld's largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. TheCompany's four global business groups - Transportation Americas,Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americasand Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World - provide acomprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and servicesfor industrial and transportation applications.

Transportation markets include original-equipment and aftermarketautomotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural and marine applications,and new technologies for hybrid vehicles and 42-volt automotiveapplications. Industrial markets include network power applicationssuch as telecommunications systems, electric utilities, railroads,photovoltaic (solar-power related) and uninterruptible power supply(UPS), and motive-power applications including lift trucks, mining andother commercial vehicles.

Except for historical information, this press release may bedeemed to contain "forward-looking" statements. The Company desires toavail itself of the safe harbor provisions of the Private SecuritiesLitigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act") and is including thiscautionary statement for the express purpose of availing itself of theprotection afforded by the Act.

Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are notlimited to (a) projections of revenues, cost of raw materials, incomeor loss, earnings or loss per share, capital expenditures, growthprospects, dividends, the effect of currency translations, capitalstructure and other financial items, (b) statements of plans of andobjectives of the Company or its management or Board of Directors,including the introduction of new products, or estimates orpredictions of actions by customers, suppliers, competitors orregulating authorities, and (c) statements of future economicperformance.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially fromthese forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, thefollowing general factors such as: (i) adverse reactions by creditors,vendors, customers, and others to the going-concern modification inthe Company's audit report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005,(ii) the Company's substantial debt and debt service requirementswhich may restrict the Company's operational and financialflexibility, as well as imposing significant interest and financingcosts and the Company's ability to comply with the covenants in itsdebt agreements or obtain waivers of noncompliance, (iii) the factthat lead, a major constituent in most of the Company's products,experiences significant fluctuations in market price and is ahazardous material that may give rise to costly environmental andsafety claims, (iv) risks involved in foreign operations such asdisruption of markets, changes in import and export laws, currencyrestrictions, currency exchange rate fluctuations and possibleterrorist attacks against U.S. interests, (v) the Company's exposureto fluctuations in interest rates on its variable debt, (xii) theCompany's ability to maintain and generate liquidity to meet itsoperating needs, (vi) general economic conditions, (vii) the abilityto acquire goods and services and/or fulfill labor needs at budgetedcosts, and (viii) the Company's reliance on a single supplier for itspolyethylene battery separators.

Some of the factors contained herein, and other factors, areenumerated in further detail in the Company's most recent Form 10-Qfiled on August 9, 2005, as well as in the Company's RegistrationStatement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and ExchangeCommission on July 15, 2005, because such factors have, in someinstances, affected and in the future could affect, the ability of theCompany to achieve its projected results and may cause actual resultsto differ materially from those expressed herein.

Further information about Exide, including its financial results,is available at www.exide.com.