The search for choice 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 Kestrel will hit the avenues with its very green hemp construction. Yes, that’s right; it’s a pot automobile.
Hemp-car Program forecasted the Kestrel future
As with other things involving hemp and pot, the Kestrel cannabis automobile has stirred attention. Canadian activist group Hempcar.org trumpeted a 2001 American road tour of 10,000 miles undertaken by a vehicle comparable to the Kestrel, but not constructed of marijuana fiber. The experimental automobile they used ran on hemp biodiesel, which is not currently the case with the Kestrel, although it might eventually come to pass. If only the U.S. would legalize the growing of industrial hemp, they could enjoy such vehicular greenery. There are no psychoactive elements to industrial hemp and it isn’t a drug, so the America’s stance is strange, considering the potential benefits.
Motive gets the hemp from Alberta Innovates
The Kestrel gets its hemp raw material from a Vegreville, Alberta farm via Alberta Innovates Technology Futures. Hemp for body construction is lightweight, renewable and strong as glass composite, reports Fast Company.When Kestrel has a methods 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
”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 Henry Ford to the New York Times nearly 90 years ago, or so Hempcar.org says. ”There is fuel in each bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented,” Ford continued.
Henry Ford most certainly was including hemp within the above discussion. This can be a safe assumption because he made a car out of resin-stiff hemp fibers. It ran on hemp-based ethanol. 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. Thanks in large part to the influence of the DuPont business and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, pot was criminalized in America.
Further 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
