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The first steam vehicle.
The "Fardier," designed by Nicolas Cugnot, was the first steam vehicle, and it was too heavy, noisy, and frightening. It was an actual tricycle with wooden wheels and iron wheels that weighed 4.5 tons and had an engine mounted on the crankshafts of gun cartwheels. -
The first engine to run without steam.
Josef Bozek built a car with an oil-powered engine. -
First pure electric vehicle.
Between 1832 and 1839, Scottish businessman Robert Anderson invented the first pure electric vehicle. -
First explosion engine.
The Belgian Etienne Lenoir was the one who patented the first explosion engine. An explosion engine is an internal combustion engine that uses fuel explosion, caused by a spark, to expand a gas, thus pushing a piston. Again, there are two- and four-strokes. An explosion engine is an internal combustion engine that uses fuel explosion, caused by a spark, to expand a gas, thus pushing a piston. -
First internal combustion engine.
In Vienna, inventor Siegfried Marcus ran a gasoline-based internal combustion engine known as "Marcus' First Car." The significant advances in the internal combustion engine led the electric car to oblivion, imposing the combustion car as the best alternative for many car brands. -
First Benz model.
In Mannheim, Karl Benz created his first model. Benz is solely responsible for developing the automobile, as he was the first to invent (patent in 1886) and build a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine (patented in 1879). Its first model dubbed the "Benz Patent Motorwagen," required numerous revisions before being sold to the general public in 1888. -
An in-line two-cylinder car with an improved carburettor.
Finally, in 1892, Maybach designed the Phönix, an in-line two-cylinder car with an improved, efficient, but not very attractive carburettor. This one, on the other hand, already had four wheels. -
Mass production.
Automobile mass production had already begun in France and the United States. The French Panhard et Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1890) were the first vehicle manufacturers (1891). Then, in 1908, Henry Ford started making automobiles on an assembly line, an innovative approach that allowed him to achieve previously inconceivable manufacturing statistics and make materials considerably faster. -
The age of brass begins (Edwardian Stage).
It gets its name from the very often use of brass to make the bodies. At this stage, the vehicles were still reminiscent of the old horse-drawn carriages. It covers from 1908 to 1918. -
Pre-War Stage.
From 1929 to 1949. It was when the roundest and most rounded-down cars were made, including the Ford V-8 and the Citröen Traction Avant. -
Post-War Stage.
It ranges from the Second World War (1948) to the current stage. At this stage, safer, faster and more optimally operating cars were made. -
First American car with an airbag.
In 1988 the Chrysler New Yorker was the first American car with "Air Bag" as standard equipment. -
A gasoline-electric hybrid.
Honda began the twenty-first century by selling Insight, a gasoline-electric hybrid in the United States.
