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Horses were domesticated circa 2000 BCE. [1] Before that oxen were used. Historically, a wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing, which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, [note 1] which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed.
1885 – Karl Benz invents the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, he called it the Benz Patent Motorwagen. [29] 1887 - The first Battery electric multiple unit (battery rail car) was used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways. [30] 1888 - Flocken Elektrowagen built by German inventor Andreas Flocken, the first true electric car.
Introduced in 1983, the Alliance was a front-wheel-drive Renault 9 compact car slightly restyled for the American market by Dick Teague, mainly to comply with American safety standards, and produced by American Motors at Kenosha. The car was badged as a Renault, and some cars also carried American Motors badges.
The firm dates to 1838, when James Cunningham joined the carriage firm Kerr, Cunningham, and Company. [2]Incorporated in 1882, and taken over after James' death in 1886 by his son Joseph, the company made fine carriages and sleighs, and became a leading manufacturer of these vehicles before the turn of the century.
The first goods transport was on human backs and heads, but the use of pack animals, including donkeys and horses, developed during the Neolithic Age. The first vehicle is believed to have been the travois, a frame used to drag loads, which probably developed in Eurasia after the first use of bullocks (castrated cattle) for pulling plows.
It induced the state of Wisconsin in 1875 to offer a US$10,000 (equivalent to $277,455 in 2023) award to the first to produce a substitute for the use of horses and other animals. They stipulated that the vehicle would have to maintain an average speed of more than 8 km/h (5 mph) over a 320 km (200 mi) course.
A 1926 merger with E.L. Cord, who was manufacturing Auburn automobiles, led to Fred Duesenberg designing the Model J in 1929, a car so luxurious (and expensive for the time, with a price of ...
The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux, pronounced [dø ʃ(ə)vo], lit. "two horses", meaning "two taxable horsepower") is an economy car produced by the French company Citroën from 1948 to 1990. Introduced at the 1948 Paris Salon de l'Automobile , [ 1 ] it has an air-cooled engine that is mounted in the front and drives the front wheels .