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Robert Anderson
first electric automobiles powered by rechargeable batteries. -
Karl Benz
There are many different types of automobiles - steam, electric, and gasoline - as well as countless styles. -
Karl Benz
GASOLINE / First true automobile. Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit. -
Karl Benz
The very first car might well have been the invention of a Flemish missionary named Ferdinand Verbiest. -
Frank Duryea
They had purchased a used horse drawn buggy for $70 and installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline engine. -
Ford Motor Company
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Wilhelm Maybach
First modern motorcar in all essentials. Its thirty-five-horsepower engine weighed only fourteen pounds per horsepower, and it achieved a speed of fifty-three miles per hour. -
Henry Ford
At the beginning of the 20th century the automobile was a plaything for the rich.Most models were complicated machines that required a chauffer conversant with its individual mechanical nuances to drive it. -
Mercer Raceabout
regarded as one of the first sports cars, the Raceabout expressed the exuberance of the driving public, as did the similarly conceived American Underslung and Hispano-Suiza Alphonso. -
Henry Ford
Ford began work on autombile manufacturing in 1896 and attempted to go into the business.He was finally efficacious in 1903 forming the Ford Motor Company. -
Bugatti Type 13
a notable racing and touring model with advanced engineering and design. -
Citroën Traction Avant
the first mass-produced front-wheel drive car, built with monocoque chassis. -
Rolls-Royce Phantom III
V12 engine, aluminium alloy cylinder block, cast iron wet cylinder liners; bore x stroke, aluminium alloy cylinder heads; overhead valves, dual ignition with 2 coils and 2 distributors; single dry plate type clutch; 4 speed gearbox, synchromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th gear (from 1938, overdrive-gearbox); hypoid bevel final drive; independent front suspension with coil springs, semi-elliptic springs rear; 4-wheel-brakes servo assisted; wheelbase -
Tesla Roadster
The first highway-capable all-electric vehicle in serial production for sale in the United States in the modern era. -
Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt
An all-electric car and a plug-in hybrid correspondingly, were launched in the U.S. and Japanese markets becoming the first mass production vehicles of their kind.
