{"id":90050,"date":"2012-11-05T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T06:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-11-05T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T06:45:28","slug":"introducing-kestrel-the-first-road-ready-car-built-out-of-hemp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/introducing-kestrel-the-first-road-ready-car-built-out-of-hemp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"left\">By Steven Kotler<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/cars\/article\/2011-02\/introducing-first-road-ready-hemp-mobile\">Popular Science<\/a><br \/>\n2\/17\/2011<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Marijuana\u2019s fibrous cousin hemp has a long history with auto makers. in 1941 Henry Ford unveiled a car body made primarily out of organic fibers, hemp included. seventy years later, the world\u2019s first production-ready biocomposite electric car\u2014with hemp as the \u201cbio\u201d\u2014will finally hit the streets. The Kestrel, a three-door hatchback, is made of a \u201chemp composite as strong as the fiberglass in boats, yet incredibly lightweight,\u201d says Nathan Armstrong, the president of Motive industries, Kestrel\u2019s manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Whereas a comparably sized Ford Fusion weighs 3,720 pounds, the Kestrel will be just 2,500 pounds with the battery. this \u201cmight be the sweet spot for electric vehicles,\u201d Armstrong says, because the car\u2019s low tonnage means a fuel-efficiency increase of 25 to 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To make this resilient, lightweight compound, hemp stalks are combed and rolled into a mat that is infused with a polymer resin. the hemp makes the biocomposite\u2019s flexibility similar to the carbon fiber used in racecars.<br \/>\nHemp grows fast and it\u2019s cheap, which should keep the Kestrel\u2019s production price around $25,000. A prototype is nearly complete, Armstrong says, and Motive plans to have thousands of its hemp-mobiles on the road by 2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Electric Hemp Car\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/recovered\/PSC0311_HL_059.jpg\" width=\"525\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Kotler Popular Science 2\/17\/2011 Marijuana\u2019s fibrous cousin hemp has a long history with auto makers. in 1941 Henry Ford unveiled a car body made primarily out of organic fibers, hemp included. seventy years later, the world\u2019s first production-ready &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/introducing-kestrel-the-first-road-ready-car-built-out-of-hemp-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}