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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.
Carl Benz. Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛnts] ⓘ; born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. [1]
Benz Velo. The Benz Velo was one of the first cars, introduced by Carl Benz in 1894 as the followup to the Patent-Motorwagen. 67 Benz Velos were built in 1894 and 134 in 1895. The early Velo had a 1L 1.5-metric-horsepower (1.5 hp; 1.1 kW) engine, and later a 3-metric-horsepower (3 hp; 2 kW) engine giving a top speed of 19 km/h (12 mph).
The first automobile in Japan, a French Panhard-Levassor, in 1898. Fiat 4 HP, the first car model produced by Italian manufacturer Fiat in 1899. The American George B. Selden filed for a patent on 8 May 1879. His application included the engine and its use in a four-wheeled car.
Karl Benz (1844–1929) made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.. Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's first internal combustion engine in a car, seen in the Benz Patent Motorwagen – financed by Bertha Benz's dowry [10] and patented in January 1886 [11] – and Gottlieb Daimler and their engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a ...
Their enterprise followed the first commercially available automobile which was patented by Karl Benz on January 29, 1886, and put into production in 1888. To construct the first Duryea Motor Wagon, the brothers had purchased a used horse-drawn buggy for $70 and then installed a 4-horsepower (3.0 kW; 4.1 PS), single cylinder gasoline engine. [1]
1885 – Karl Benz invents the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, he called it the Benz Patent Motorwagen. [29] 1887 - The first Battery electric multiple unit (battery rail car) was used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways. [30] 1888 - Flocken Elektrowagen built by German inventor Andreas Flocken, the first true electric car.
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Viktoria is a car that was produced by Benz and Cie. from 1893 to 1900. [ 1] It was the first four-wheeled vehicle produced by Benz and Cie. The first car brought to, and used in, Västerbotten, Sweden was a Benz Viktoria. In 1900, Jon Haraldsson Hedin, a pharmacist from Lycksele, purchased a Viktoria in Stockholm for ...