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Ford's hemp car closer - a greener choice that produces less smoke

Yes, yes... A car made from hemp? It's a subject we have discussed a few times: hemp-powered cars and car panels made from hemp fiber, and it looks serious: Ford, teaming with the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and hemp fiber supplier Hemcore are developing a plant matter used to build auto bodies. The DEFRA is investing half a million pounds (roughly a million dollars) in the matter, because the resulting material can be useful in not using petrochemicals and metals to build cars and is biodegradable. The ... Read more →

Look at the time ... a brief history of hemp and cars Sebastian Blanco

There's no shortage of pro-hemp advocates in the car world, and right now is the perfect time to mark their influence on the way automakers build cars and how some people power them. Of course, weed ...

Update on Ford Hemp car YouTube video post Sebastian Blanco

Yesterday, I posted about the Ford Hemp car video on YouTube after getting a tip from Manu Sharma. Manu followed up with me and gently corrected me that he's a he, not a she. More germane to ...

Ford's 1930s Hemp Car on YouTube Sebastian Blanco

In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford developed a car body that was made from from hemp fiber, and now YouTube has a video of it (and everything else). The video is only 26 seconds long, pixelated and ...

Ford's hemp car closer - a greener choice that produces less smoke 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Yes, yes... A car made from hemp? It's a subject we have discussed a few times: hemp-powered cars and car panels made from hemp fiber, and it looks serious: Ford, teaming with the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and hemp fiber supplier Hemcore are developing a plant matter ...

Look at the time ... a brief history of hemp and cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There's no shortage of pro-hemp advocates in the car world, and right now is the perfect time to mark their influence on the way automakers build cars and how some people power them. Of course, weed and hemp are not the same thing, but this is the best we can do to mark the occasion. Here are the ...

Update on Ford Hemp car YouTube video post 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Yesterday, I posted about the Ford Hemp car video on YouTube after getting a tip from Manu Sharma. Manu followed up with me and gently corrected me that he's a he, not a she. More germane to AutoblogGreen, Manu corrects some of the information he found, including the fact that the hemp plastic body ...

Ford's 1930s Hemp Car on YouTube 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford developed a car body that was made from from hemp fiber, and now YouTube has a video of it (and everything else). The video is only 26 seconds long, pixelated and there is no listed source, but the information in it is pretty cool. Henry Ford's plastic hemp car ...


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