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Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada

CBC News -- An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.
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The compact car, which will hold a driver and up to three passengers, will have a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and a range of 40 to 160 kilometres before needing to be recharged, depending on the type of battery.
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It will be powered by a motor made by Boucherville, Que.-based TM4 Electrodynamic Systems, said Motive Industries president Nathan Armstrong.
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"Plus, it's illegal to grow it in the U.S., so it actually gives Canada a bit of a market advantage," Armstrong added. The U.S. does allow the import of processed hemp.

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Submitted Aug 24, 2010 By: Hamish

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Luckylindy Champion Author Milwaukee Posts:2,153 Points:668,460 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 9:55:44 AM Ignore Luckylindy Report Abuse Good luck with that. My guess is that they were smoking it when they came up with this idea.
Bonanza Champion Author Boston Posts:9,294 Points:2,086,055 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 5:50:56 AM Ignore Bonanza Report Abuse This does not sound real
comprof Champion Author Houston Posts:4,378 Points:896,175 Joined:Jul 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 2:14:57 AM Ignore comprof Report Abuse bobdec: I agree. A distraction from finding real solutions.
Saturn93 Champion Author Salt Lake City Posts:6,571 Points:1,488,850 Joined:Oct 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:57:33 AM Ignore Saturn93 Report Abuse Good for Canada.
EcoVore Champion Author Los Angeles Posts:3,533 Points:727,150 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:56:42 AM Ignore EcoVore Report Abuse Industrial hemp has low THC levels as article states. Not much of a buzz in that car fire.
bobdec Champion Author Florida Posts:6,716 Points:1,324,615 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:55:34 AM Ignore bobdec Report Abuse Another useless car ii my opinion
Bubba44612 Champion Author Ohio Posts:5,183 Points:1,421,070 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:54:38 AM Ignore Bubba44612 Report Abuse It is only illegal to grow here unless you are the Government. Tommy Chong will have one when it hits the states.
pgerassi Champion Author Milwaukee Posts:8,521 Points:1,666,975 Joined:Apr 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:54:18 AM Ignore pgerassi Report Abuse 56MPH isn't all that fast. 25 mile range at that speed isn't very far. The 100 mile range is likely at 10MPH or so, thus we are talking about a suburban commuter here. The real question is the cost.
CumminsFanOH Champion Author Columbus Posts:1,670 Points:827,990 Joined:Jan 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:47:41 AM Ignore CumminsFanOH Report Abuse If it doesn't work, they can smoke it :-)
jadeusa Champion Author Dallas Posts:6,900 Points:1,371,960 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:42:02 AM Ignore jadeusa Report Abuse Bring it to the US.
IamWhoIam Champion Author San Francisco Posts:13,960 Points:1,459,700 Joined:Jan 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:38:52 AM Ignore IamWhoIam Report Abuse The whole idea is to make us notice the car. You and I both know it is not something to smoke, just something to drive and it is an interesting twist of usage in that hemp is strong and light. However you would be totally nuts to think you could "smoke" this car. You would be a bit nuts to smoke hemp as well as it is merely a plant cousin of the common weed, Marijuana.
HA4CNN Champion Author Toronto Posts:3,468 Points:1,100,795 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:32:46 AM Ignore HA4CNN Report Abuse If it is structurally sound and light it is a good start.
ajrn Champion Author Toledo Posts:12,002 Points:2,515,540 Joined:Nov 2003	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:29:14 AM Ignore ajrn Report Abuse dude, the lineup at Taco Bell will be horrible!!
Mooseman1 Champion Author Manitoba Posts:7,301 Points:1,380,245 Joined:Jul 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:28:37 AM Ignore Mooseman1 Report Abuse I can just see a few people sucking at the exhaust pipe for that extra kick.
Sody33 Champion Author Las Vegas Posts:15,482 Points:1,814,560 Joined:Oct 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:28:24 AM Ignore Sody33 Report Abuse Hemp is not cannabis and cannabis can be used for hemp. Sort of like saying eggs are not chickens but chickens can come from eggs or maybe that wasn't quite what I wanted. There is a difference. Of course we allow the import of processed hemp or we would be without a whole lot of rope we would have to develop some other way and rope is oftentimes better than steel cables or such.
scrounger Champion Author Vancouver Posts:9,635 Points:2,648,995 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:24:55 AM Ignore scrounger Report Abuse so...driving perpetually impaired
freedom2831 Veteran Author Seattle Posts:338 Points:759,665 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:23:28 AM Ignore freedom2831 Report Abuse I think this story should have come out on April 1st.
Rt118E Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:6,714 Points:906,735 Joined:Jun 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:21:38 AM Ignore Rt118E Report Abuse You need a strong light material to make the car lighter for electric motors. You can not get high if it is combined with other material & painted. I don't think.
snowmaze Champion Author Colorado Posts:5,289 Points:731,330 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:21:24 AM Ignore snowmaze Report Abuse maybe you can get high off the fumes from the exhaust
WhiteTreeIndian Champion Author New Jersey Posts:3,383 Points:668,545 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:17:03 AM Ignore WhiteTreeIndian Report Abuse American people, of which I am one, are such short sighted one sentence idiots. Lighten up, expand your minds.
JOHNNY95206 Champion Author Stockton Posts:2,780 Points:306,380 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:14:03 AM Ignore JOHNNY95206 Report Abuse From the article - "Industrial hemp is bred to produce very little THC, the active compound in marijuana." (Chet Brokaw/Associated Press) The male Plant will not get you High. But if you follow closely you may get a headache. So you take the High road and I take the low road and I get to Scotland Before you.
BT1288 Champion Author Lincoln Posts:13,159 Points:956,550 Joined:May 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:13:45 AM Ignore BT1288 Report Abuse Too bad Highlander is already taken.
vibdata Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:2,702 Points:573,435 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:12:47 AM Ignore vibdata Report Abuse THE STONED CAR IN A BASKET. Yes, I see a bright future for drivers of this car.
jackson661 Champion Author Columbus Posts:2,783 Points:1,047,190 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:08:45 AM Ignore jackson661 Report Abuse Think of these cars as a plant based structure which is very light but super strong..great idea...there is very little THC...
250FORD Champion Author Minnesota Posts:8,265 Points:1,303,335 Joined:Feb 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:06:17 AM Ignore 250FORD Report Abuse I can only imagine if this thing started on fire.
WhiteTreeIndian Champion Author New Jersey Posts:3,383 Points:668,545 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:04:39 AM Ignore WhiteTreeIndian Report Abuse Heyyy man, if you run out of gas, you could always smoke the car, man.
ifallsguy Champion Author Minnesota Posts:4,425 Points:1,213,780 Joined:Apr 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:04:08 AM Ignore ifallsguy Report Abuse maybe the buzz you get runs the car?
Long_gone Champion Author Chicago Posts:2,653 Points:460,145 Joined:Jan 2010	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:01:50 AM Ignore Long_gone Report Abuse C'mon, what were they smokin'?
djgunrunner Champion Author Salt Lake City Posts:7,596 Points:1,888,895 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 1:00:31 AM Ignore djgunrunner Report Abuse If you buy a vehicle like that then you have been using too much of the funny green stuff. 90 kilometres per hour is about 60 mph. 40 to 160 kilometres is about 25 to 53 miles. Wow! Like P.T. Barnum said, " there is a sucker born every minute and a con man is there to take them".
14of45SSR Champion Author Saskatchewan Posts:2,370 Points:829,790 Joined:Dec 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:58:40 AM Ignore 14of45SSR Report Abuse Some People Will Probably Try To Smoke It!
Rageagainsttm Champion Author Tampa Posts:6,009 Points:1,447,195 Joined:Jul 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:48:50 AM Ignore Rageagainsttm Report Abuse I think I saw this in a Cheech & Chong movie.
DosEquis26 Champion Author Chicago Posts:3,765 Points:1,543,485 Joined:Jun 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:48:26 AM Ignore DosEquis26 Report Abuse I do not believe this.
joel27nc Champion Author Raleigh Posts:8,162 Points:1,393,420 Joined:Mar 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:45:47 AM Ignore joel27nc Report Abuse Since it is NOT allowed in USA, what happens if a Canadian owner wants to dive into USA by car for a visit?
Buddy2264 Champion Author Tampa Posts:9,263 Points:1,894,515 Joined:Oct 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:44:28 AM Ignore Buddy2264 Report Abuse Ford and Diesel also thought they could produce there own fuels IE ethanol and bio-diesel, until convinced by Big Oil they could provide oil cheaper and all engines were converted. Alas if we could only go back. Conservation keeps your money in your pocket.
probedude2 Champion Author Akron Posts:10,179 Points:1,914,280 Joined:Jun 2003	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:43:47 AM Ignore probedude2 Report Abuse When's the "Up in Smoke" hemp van gonna be out?
camel1 Champion Author Minnesota Posts:6,050 Points:1,816,515 Joined:Jul 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:43:29 AM Ignore camel1 Report Abuse Is it marketable or a pure waste of money and effort??
dirt girl Champion Author Twin Cities Posts:33,170 Points:2,621,005 Joined:Oct 2004	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:37:04 AM Ignore dirt girl Report Abuse From Purdue Univeristy's website. "Henry Ford recognized the utility of hemp in early times. In advance of today’s automobile manufacturers, he constructed a car with certain components made of resin stiffened with hemp fiber (Fig. 19). Rather ironically in view of today’s parallel situation, Henry Ford’s hemp innovations in the 1920s occurred at a time of crisis for American farms, later to intensify with the depression. The need to produce new industrial markets for farm products led to a broad movement for scientific research in agriculture that came to be labeled “Farm Chemurgy,” that today is embodied in chemical applications of crop constituents"
Quick68 Champion Author Columbus Posts:4,844 Points:758,900 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:32:27 AM Ignore Quick68 Report Abuse Good old hemp.
LoneGuy Champion Author Lansing Posts:6,153 Points:1,857,755 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:29:06 AM Ignore LoneGuy Report Abuse Talk about thinking outside the box, this takes the cake for wild.
TBONE3 Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:6,393 Points:1,511,720 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:27:18 AM Ignore TBONE3 Report Abuse Good point JOHNofGB - Me stoned officer??? Absolutely not, I've just been following those Canadian electric cars. [Edited by: TBONE3 at 8/25/2010 12:27:59 AM EST]
JCS319 Champion Author Tacoma Posts:14,971 Points:2,076,305 Joined:Dec 2005	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:25:42 AM Ignore JCS319 Report Abuse I suppose it was only a matter of time.
PetroScopper Champion Author Houston Posts:4,369 Points:1,092,485 Joined:Aug 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:25:09 AM Ignore PetroScopper Report Abuse So, we need to legalize it in this country and start putting people to work growing it to take the place of steel in vehicles.
N5EXY Champion Author Austin Posts:3,195 Points:1,046,380 Joined:Jul 2004	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:24:30 AM Ignore N5EXY Report Abuse I am beginning to remember the East German / Soviet cars (that's what they called 'em - honest) that came across checkpoint charlie in Berlin after the wall came down. The panels were made of some sort of particle board or plywood and they gave off a lot of smoke. I wonder.
tedjm1 Champion Author New York Posts:3,545 Points:390,660 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:22:06 AM Ignore tedjm1 Report Abuse Up to 100 miles seems too low for an outing. Range should be longer.
JOHNNY95206 Champion Author Stockton Posts:2,780 Points:306,380 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:20:51 AM Ignore JOHNNY95206 Report Abuse A back woods scientist turns, ordinary, everyday marijuana into gas. An NASA scientist has broken marijuana down into it individual components, and found another use for the drug. Would you believe that after all these years the weed known as marijuana can be use as a high octane, clean burning fuel? By extracting the juice from the marijuana plant and processing it through a simple process, this scientist has found that you can get half a gallon of fuel, from every couple of pounds for gas for your vehicle. This fast growing, easy harvest weed can replace about 50 to 75 percent of our oil requirements without putting a strain on our food supply. This NASA scientist stated that it is commonly known in the scientific world that marijuana makes a better burning, and higher grade fuel then corn. This is also known in the circles of our Government. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the early 1900s, Henry Ford and other futuristic, organic, engineering geniuses recognized (as their intellectual, scientific heirs still do today) an important point - that up to 90 percent of all fossil fuel used in the world today (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.) should long ago have been replaced with biomass such as: cornstalks, cannabis, waste paper and the like. Cannabis Fuel Imagine that. [Edited by: JOHNNY95206 at 8/25/2010 12:23:55 AM EST]
NotmeuQc Champion Author Montreal Posts:3,310 Points:668,945 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:18:56 AM Ignore NotmeuQc Report Abuse This will never get into mass production.
JoseM All-Star Author San Bernardino Posts:890 Points:605,010 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:15:40 AM Ignore JoseM Report Abuse More green crap
LocalSpyGuy Champion Author Tampa Posts:5,479 Points:1,120,320 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:13:17 AM Ignore LocalSpyGuy Report Abuse I think I've seen this car before. Cheech and Chong have one!
Blue_Cruzer Champion Author Lexington Posts:5,157 Points:1,203,700 Joined:Mar 2007	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:12:39 AM Ignore Blue_Cruzer Report Abuse Sounds like a publicity gimmick.
JohnofGB Champion Author Flint Posts:3,080 Points:632,295 Joined:Feb 2010	Message Posted: Aug 25, 2010 12:11:26 AM Ignore JohnofGB Report Abuse So if you have an exhaust leak, you do not get carbonmonoxide poisoning; with this one you get stoned............