Riding in this roadster, you become relaxed

Posted on 16-06-2016 at 12:08 by jaapiyo – 32 Comments”

Pick it, pack it, fire it up, come along…and take a hit from the bong…

Forget neatly woven carbon that is just right on each other perfectly in a nice pattern. Woven hemp is the future. This car is in fact made from the Cannabis Sativa plant, which in the wild often found in attics or barns in Noord-Brabant. It is also just good, of course, a bit of green in the house. And it is a useful plant, because except from fragrant buds is the plant from very strong fibers, which have for a long time, for example, ropes and mats are made.

The use of hemp in cars is not new. In 1941, used Henry Ford the stuff already in his ‘Plastic Car‘. A small six years ago we got this EV. Also if you are in the new Alfa Romeo Giulia drive, you can touch on in high spirits, not only because of the RWD but also because the dashboard is resting on a structure which is partially made from hemp.

A man in Florida has taken the trouble to kek sports car to create the material, which is light and strong and almost non-indeukt, as the man demonstrates in this video. The thing is based on a Mazda MX-5 Miata and he calls it the Renew Sports Car.

Bruce Dietzen has wild plans for a hemp-rich future. What do you think? Role you would like hemp, or prefer steel or carbon? (via Jalopnik)