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The History
The first car was built by Joseph Cugnot in 1769. It was powered by a
steam engine and was very slow.
Jean Joseph tienne Lenoir was the first to build the one cylinder
engine, internal-combustion engine, was later patent.
Nikolaus August Otto built the first four cylinder engine.
In 1886 Gottlieb Daimler designed the first four wheeled automobile.
They also created the first v-slanted engine.
Karl Benz, know as one of the founders of Mercedes-Benz, is the first
to build an automobile powered by an internal combustion engine.
Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach with Benzs manufacturing
firm in 1926 to create Daimler-Benz. The joint company makes cars
today under the Mercedes-Benz nameplate, and Daimler Chrysler
Henry Ford, a famous car company founder, designed the worlds
biggest car manufacturer, manufacturing over 15 million Model Ts by
1927
Hybrid cars have also been around since the 1900s.
In the 1900s Ford made more steam and electric cars than it did
gasoline.
The first hybrid commercial truck was built in 1910, and as the
gasoline engine was refined interest in hybrids died down.
As problems with environment and gas process continue, Hybrids are
now a hot commodity in the market place and are now the new wave
of future cars
Engines
Engines (cont.)
Rotary Engine is one of the weirdest engines of all. The rotary
engine has no pistons, and uses rotors in replace for the pistons.
Electrical engines are one of the two engines that use electricity to
power cars. When electric motors first came out they required a
lot of space, and a lot of electricity to power them, so cars were
bulky and heavy.
Automobiles that combine two or more types of engines are called
hybrids). A usual hybrid engine is made of an electrical motor with
batteries that are recharged by a generator run by a small gas
powered engine.
Diesel engines are the largest of all engines and are configured
just like an internal-combustion engine but it runs of a different
fuel.
Conclusion
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