Coates International, Ltd. Announced Today That the Company is in Negotiations of a Strategic Alliance With a Private Funding Source. It Also Has 20,000,000 USD in Equity Funding With Dutchess Capital Financing and Has Started to Utilize These Funds This Week.

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Feb 09, 2012, 04:50 ET

WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Coates International, Ltd. (NASDAQOTCBB: COTE) –Coates International Ltd. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company is in negotiations with a private financer to fund the ramp up of production of Coates CSRV products.

Management believes this funding is vitally important to the production and delivery of the products in quantities satisfactory to our customers. The Company simply cannot confirm these large orders until it has the capability of producing and delivering products in accordance with the size of the purchase orders and the dates of delivery.

Management comments: "Once we get production flowing, confirming orders will be a daily exercise."

About Coates International, Ltd.: Coates has been developing over a period of more than 15 years a patented spherical rotary valve CSRV Internal Combustion Engine invented by George J. Coates and his son Gregory. Our public filings with the SEC may be viewed and printed on the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.

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