The search for alternative energizes and modes of transportation that are environmentally friendly has taken a new, green turn. Calgary, Alberta’s Motive Industries is introducing an electric automobile with a bio-composite design that will surely take Canada by storm. The bio-composite automobile can be known as the Kestrel, and the green bio factor is hemp. It’s a cannabis-constructed auto.
Hemp-car Program foretold the Kestrel’s appearance
As with other things involving hemp and cannabis, the Kestrel cannabis vehicle has stirred attention. Hemp-car.org triumphantly got the ball rolling when they tested a hemp fueled biodiesel on a 10,000-mile excursion. The experimental automobile they used ran on hemp biodiesel, which is not at the moment the case with the Kestrel, although it may eventually come to pass. The United States of America has yet to make cultivating industrial hemp legal, though, so they won’t know what it is like. There are no psychoactive elements to industrial hemp and it’s not a drug, so the America’s stance is strange, thinking about the potential benefits.
Hemp courtesy of Alberta ag tech business
Alberta Innovates Technology Futures provides the hemp for the Kestrel and purchases its cannabis stock from an industrial hemp farm located in Vegreville, Alberta. Fast Business reports that the use of hemp in frame/body construction makes for a much lighter car, plus it’s not hard to recycle parts. Not only that, but the hemp compound is as strong as glass composite.When Kestrel nevertheless has a solutions to go before full production, Motive expects they’ll be able to start testing by year’s end.
Henry Ford was ahead of the game in 1925
According to Hempcar.org, Henry Ford told the New York Times that “The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust — almost anything,” he said. ”There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that could be fermented”.
Hemp was reportedly one of the plant materials on which Ford had his eye. To prove his theory, he made a auto out of hardened hemp fibers and fueled it with ethanol made from hemp biodiesel fuel. Ford could have saved the country’s farmers from the grip from the Great Depression. It would benefit Ford tremendously and revive American agriculture. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 threw a wrench within the works. Once the DuPont company and newspaper uber-baron William Randolph Hearst had their say, hemp was buried beneath pages of unnecessary laws. Ford’s path of innovation was closed.
Additional reading
Fast Company
fastcompany.com/1684111/motive-industries-hemp-ev?partner=rss
Hempcar.org
hempcar.org/ford.shtml
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States
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