The First Ride into the Future Discover the Origins of the Car

The Stout Scarab is believed to be the world's first minivan, possibly the world's first aluminum unibody, and definitely the world's first truly ugly car. German engineer Carl Benz invents the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first three-wheeled prototype with an internal combustion engine, while Gottlieb Daimler and ... Karl first worked on creating his petrol-driven two-stroke engine in 1879 and got a patent for it six months later. After this, he also invented ... Several vehicles have been unearthed over the years that predated Karl Benz's Patent-Motorwagen of 1886, but the idea of a self-propelled ... William Morrison, from Des Moines, Iowa, creates the first successful electric vehicle in the U.S. His car is little more than an electrified ... The first electric car ever made by every car maker · Volvo C30 Electric. © Volvo 1 of 32 · General Motors EV1. © GM 1 of 32 · Audi e-tron. © Audi 1 of 32 · BMW ... Most of us think of Henry Ford and the Model T when we think of the earliest automobile. But Henry Ford didn't invent the first car. When was the first car made? Get to know the history and inventors behind the first automobile. Read more: When was the first car made? When was the first car made? Get to know the history and inventors behind the first automobiles. Electrobat! Is that not a great name? It belongs to the first commercially viable EV effort. Philadelphians Pedro Salom and Henry G. Morris ...