Friday, June 15, 2012

Hemp Cars Being Made in Canada

The new car of the future may be made out of hemp.  Companies such as Motive Industries in conjuction with help from the schools in Alberta, Canada are creating and making hemp cars and they hope to have them ready in 2013.  The idea of hemp cars is not new.  Henry Ford created a hemp car made of hemp plastic and that ran on hemp oil in 1941.  Due to laws that were passed banning the hemp industry, his hemp cars never made it to the market.  However, it looks like this is going to change in Canada.







By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)



Sources:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2010/08/23/cannabis-hemp-electric-car-kestrel-motive.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98529&page=1


http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/02/the-kestrel-is-the-worlds-first-production-ready-hemp-car.html


http://www.motiveind.com/


http://www.calgaryherald.com/cars/Struggling+design+cars+country/7041771/story.html

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