Tuesday 16 February 2016

The first car was built in what year?

In the year 1672, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesult missionary in China built what is claimed to be the first vehicle in the world. It was a steam powered vehicle and was built as a toy for the Kangxi emperor of China. It couldn't a driver or any passenger.

The first vehicle that was self powered was designed and built by a French national, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in the year 1768. It was powered by a steam engine.

Francois Isaac de Rivaz, who was also a French national built the world's first car powered by an internal combustion engine fuelled by Hydrogen in 1808. He was also the inventor of Hydrogen powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition in 1807.

The world famous Motorwagen built by Karl Benz was the first automobile to be powered by a gasoline or petrol type internal combustion engine, also known as Spark Ignition (SI) engine in 1886.

In 1933, Citroen Rosalie was the first passenger car to be introduced with a diesel powered engine. Shortly after, in 1936, Mercedez Benz 260 D and Hanomag Rekord were launched.

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