The first electric car was not 10 years ago
It may sound unlikely but the first electric car has its roots in the very distant 1887, that is, a year after the first car premiere, with a petrol engine by Carl Benz. His inspiration was William Morrison, from America. Williams left aside the popular horses (animals and not those in power in the engines) and introduced the first electric car! It was, in fact, polymorphic and had space for six passengers! Morrison had the first electric car ready for a year and took it to the streets in 1888. It had a final 30km/h, as much as the speed limit today in many urban parts of the world and its most exciting autonomy: it was going to offer 80 km of autonomy after a filling of its batteries!
The first major electric car manufacturer was Thomas Edison, the inventor of electricity. He created the first electric car, one and Edison fanatically believed in the movement of vehicles with electricity! His first car was Baker Electric, which was very dear to female drivers. But his bold effort, which began in 1910, fell into five years. His factory was rapidly closed! Shortly afterwards, Henry Ford, who believed in the internal combustion engines, worked with Edison to build an electric car as he never found a response and stayed on paper! The electric car died permanently and the internal combustion engines were the new craziness of the manufacturers!
Experiments for the first car had been done much in the late 19ths. But the original patent was carried by Carl Benz, who in 1877 began experimenting with two -stroke engines, the first foundation to be indirectly the reason for the establishment of one of the largest automakers in the world. The first car was a three -wheeler and had an internal combustion engine under its bonnet. This invention was guaranteed by Benz on January 29, 1886. In 1893 his company manufactured the first four -wheel drive car, while in 1899 the first series of « racing » cars was ready for sale.
The Mercedes-Benz 260 D was the first mass-produced passenger with an oil engine. Specifically, in February 1936 at the Berlin Motor Show, Daimler-Benz presented the 260 d in the form of six -sequence Pullman Landaulet. It had a 2.6 -liter four -cylinder engine that offered 45 hp in combination with a four -speed manual transmission. By December 1940, 1,967 points of 260 D had been built. Their name (D) was derived from German inventor Rudolph Diesel, who inspired an internal combustion engine. But also the first diesel truck, went out for 1923 by Benz & Cie. that launched the first truck in the world with diesel engine. It weighed five tonnes and the OB 2 diesel four -cylinder delivered 45 hp at 1,000 rpm per minute.
