Canadian Cannabis Car

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."

Comments

Only one word to describe it

[maroberts]

Smokin'!!

already done

[i.r.id10t]

Didn't Cheech and Chong already do this?

Use more hemp please

[Neil Watson]

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.

Re:Use more hemp please

[slyrat]

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.

a little late: henry ford did that

[circletimessquare]

here's a youtube clip of the original hemp car, in 1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgDyEO_8cI

among other hemp facts:

ford and diesel intended their cars to run on hemp oil

jefferson drafted the declaration of independence on hemp paper

much of the founding fathers grew hemp or processed it

read more:

http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html

Reeferance, please

[hyades1]

Hey, guys, c'mon over here and have a look at my spliffy new car. It's a 2011 Tokeswagen.

Re:Hemp eh?

[Nadaka]

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.

Hemp IS Cannabis...

[Ellis D. Tripp]

FFS, people, when will it be understood that Hemp is much more than just Cannabis?

Industrial hemp is just a cultivar of C. Sativa that is bred for fiber and oil production.

There are 3 separate species of Cannabis, and many different cultivars and hybrid varieties.

ALL hemp is Cannabis. But not all Cannabis is hemp. The varieties grown for drug use are generally pretty poor fiber producers.