The earliest cars were powered by internal combustion engines!
Before the birth of the automobile, horse-drawn carriages were the best land transportation for mankind. In 1770, Frenchman Nicolas Cournot (1725-1804) installed a steam engine on a trolley and created the first steam trolley. This was the first machine-powered vehicle in the world tNRk
In 1769, Swiss military officer Plantier also built a free-running trolley powered by a steam engine, so some people identified Plantier as one of the ancestors of the automobile.
In 1860, Frenchman Etienne Lenoir invented an internal combustion gasoline engine.
In 1885, German engineer Karl Benz (1844-1929) built a three-wheeled vehicle equipped with a 0.85-horsepower gasoline engine in Mannheim. Another German engineer, Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), also built a four-wheeled car powered by a 1.1-horsepower gasoline engine. This is a car in the modern sense. Both are recognized as the inventors of the modern automobile powered by the internal combustion engine. January 29, 1886 is also recognized as the birth date of the automobile.