Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Canadian Cannabis Car

Posted by samzenpus on from the Cheech-and-Chong-already-did-it dept.

sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."

5 of 120 comments (clear)

  1. Hemp eh? by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the most useful crops imaginable, read the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp Trouble is a variety can be smoked, so it's all but banned. Shame really.
    We need to grow more.

    --
    If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
    1. Re:Hemp eh? by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Shame really, a variety has useful fibers that are cheaper and just as durable as the newly invented nylon by Dupont. One year later, all hemp is banned. Don't kid yourself, hemp is illegal for monetary reasons, its use as a recreational drug was leveraged to make banning it all the more palpable to the American people.

    2. Re:Hemp eh? by TheCarp · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, the smokable variety came first. Its been refined through breeding over the years... but...

      it was in fact a French company that engineered (I don't know if it was through genetic engineering or breeding, or a bit of both) the "low THC" variety, and then pushed for international laws defining "hemp".

      The real problem is NOT that most varieties can be smoked, its that some people can't mind their own business as to what other people do, and insist on asking the government to put a stop to the behavior that they don't like.

      -Steve

      --
      "I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
  2. Hemp !== Cannabis. by gus+goose · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FFS, people, when will it be understood that Hemp is much more than just Cannabis? Honestly, folk... 'concluding' that the car is made of Cannabis when it's described as a 'hemp' car is like concluding a person is a heroine user when they say they took some drugs... (even if it was a headache pill).

    gus

    --
    .. if only.
  3. Re:Use more hemp please by slyrat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It always disappoints me how little hemp is used in industry. It is my understanding that hemp is easy to grow, is a more durable replacement for cotton and can be a more sustainable fibre for paper.

    The same can be said of bamboo actually.