The Kestrel - A Canadian Electric Car Built With Hemp Plastic
Submitted by Bob-45 on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 12:38By Silvia Pikal, July 05, 2011 @ 4:11pm
While hemp can be used for food, textiles, paper, fabric, and fuel oil, the misunderstood crop breeds fear amongst politicians in the United States and has led to the crop being illegal to grow without a DEA permit, which is pretty hard to get. But growing hemp is legal in Canada. Canadian company Motive Industries has taken advantage of this, and have been working on an electric car made of hemp plastic. Touted as Canada’s first bio composite electric car, the Motive Kestrel’s top speed is 135 km/h, with a range of 160 km. The ultralight car is a 3 door 4 passenger electric vehicle, and packs 16 kWh of lithium battery juice to keep the car going 160 kilometers per charge.
read more http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/05/canadian-ev-to-be-pimped...
Clicked on the prospectus link
http://www.motiveind.com/kestrel-main.html
I think the winters will be too harsh on the thing imo.
Good idea for warmer climates.
donvino
kilometers?
Kilometers?! What kid of crazy european socialist unit of measurement is that? :-)
Henry Ford made a hemp car in1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgDyEO_8cI
sounds great! But how much?
Are we talking 10 to 20 thousand, or over 50,000 like the Chevy Volt!
Jon Weckwerth