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Canada Proud Of Upcoming Kestrel Weed Auto

Green automotive news has received a hit of exciting news. Fast Business indicates that a Calgary, Alberta, company called Motive Industries is bringing a new electric automobile with bio-composite design to market in Canada. Dubbed the Kestrel, the bio-composite in question is hemp. Indeed, it is a weed vehicle that will no doubt be affixed with the moniker "pot car" by those who do not understand horticulture. Source for this article - Canada has high hopes for Kestrel cannabis car by Newystype.com.

Kestrel the coming from the Hempcar Program

As with other things involving hemp and marijuana, the Kestrel marijuana automobile has stirred attention. Canadian activist group Hempcar.org trumpeted a 2001 American road tour of 10,000 miles undertaken by a automobile comparable to the Kestrel, but not constructed of pot fiber. In its earliest renditions, the Kestrel won't run on hemp biofuel like the Hemp-car.org model, but that might change in the near future. If only the United States of America would legalize the growing of industrial hemp, they could enjoy such vehicular greenery. Industrial hemp is no drug and doesn't affect the mind, so there is no big deal, really.

Hemp courtesy of Alberta Innovates Technology Futures

The Kestrel gets its hemp raw material from a Vegreville, Alberta farm via Alberta Innovates Technology Futures. The hemp makes for an very lightweight but solid automobile. Parts are easily recyclable and also the construction is as strong as glass composite, writes Fast Company.Motive isn't ready to start ripping Kestrels off the assembly line just yet, but testing a prototype should certainly start before 2010 comes to a close.

In 1925, Henry Ford saw the future

"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," said the prescient Henry Ford to the New York Times during the Great Depression. "There is fuel in each 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 vehicle out of hardened hemp fibers and fueled it with ethanol made from hemp biodiesel fuel. If all had gone according to plan, Ford could have helped save America from the Great Depression via his ideas for "Farm Chemurgy". It would benefit Ford tremendously and revive American agriculture. However, Congress eventually passed the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. The DuPont company and William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper baron with a fortune within the timber industry, basically shut down hemp cultivation in the U.S. on a large scale.

More on this topic

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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