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The World's Work: A History of Our Time. Vol. XIII. pp. 8163–8178 Includes photos of many c. 1906 special purpose automobiles. "New England in Motor History; 1890 to 1916". The Automobile Journal. 41: 9. 25 February 1916. Norman, Henry (April 1902). "The Coming of the Automobile". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. Vol.
Karl Benz's vehicle was the first true automobile, entirely designed as such, rather than simply being a motorized stage coach or horse carriage. This is why he was granted his patent, and is regarded as its inventor. His wife and sons became the first true motorists, in 1889, when they took the car out for the specific task of paying a family ...
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile [1] [a] and was the first car put into production. [8] It was patented in January 1886 and unveiled in public later that year.
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Electric cars, which were invented early in the history of the car, became commercially available in the 2000s and are predicted to cost less to buy than petrol-driven cars before 2025. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The transition from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric cars features prominently in most climate change mitigation scenarios , [ 14 ] such as ...
The first hybrid BMW was the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, and BMW's first electric car was the BMW i3 city car, which was released in 2013. After many years of establishing a reputation for sporting rear-wheel drive cars, BMW's first front-wheel drive car was the 2014 BMW 2 Series Active Tourer multi-purpose vehicle (MPV).
In October of the following year it reached an agreement with the Chinese government to build a factory in Shanghai. [146] Tesla listed as the world's best selling plug-in passenger car manufacturer in 2018 and 2019. [147] [148] [149] Shown is Tesla's entire vehicle line up (from back to front, the Model 3, Model S and Model X) as of 2019.