The history of automotive vehicles began in the 18th century with steam-powered cars. Early attempts to build self-propelled vehicles used steam, electricity, and gasoline as means of propulsion. The first true steam-powered car was built in 1769 by Nicholas Cugnot, but it was too heavy and noisy. In the following decades, inventors experimented with steam, electric, and gasoline engines to power early automobile prototypes. The first successful gasoline-powered automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz. Mass production of automobiles began in the late 19th century in both France and the United States, establishing the world's first automobile companies.

2. The history begins with automotive vehicles propelled by steam 18th
century.
Trying to obtain a driving force to replace the horses back to the
seventeenth century. The car goes through the three eras of
the prevalent means of propulsion. : steam, electricity and gasoline.
The first steam car (1769) is the "Fardier" created by Nicholas
Cugnot, too heavy and noisy.

3. In 1770 he built a second model, larger than the first, and which could
handle 4.5 tons at a speed of 4 km. / h. This version was produced which
could be considered 'first car accident' of history,
Cugnot yet had time to build a third version in 1771, which remains
exposed today in the National Technical Museum in Paris.

4. In 1784 William Murdoch built a model steam carriage and in
1801 Richard Trevithick drove a vehicle in Camborne (UK) .In
such innovations as the first vehicles handbrake and steering
wheel speeds were developed.

5. In 1807, François Isaac de Rivaz
designed the first car powered by an
internal combustion engine fuelled by
hydrogen.

6. In 1815 Josef Bozek, built a self
propelled motor oil. Walter Hancock,
In 1838, Robert Davidson built an
electric locomotive that
reached 6 km / h.

7. Between 1832 and 1839 Robert Anderson invented the first car
powered by non-rechargeable electric cells.
Around 1870, in Vienna, inventor Siegfried Marcus
operated the internal combustion engine based
gasoline, known as the "First Marcus Car". In 1883,
Marcus patented a low voltage ignition was
introduced on these models.

8. In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile the Benz
Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz

9. 1889 German engineer Emil Capitaine
combustion engine develops a two-stroke
high compression. This creates
an ancestor to the diesel engine.
Tunbridge Wells in 1895 held the first exhibition of cars in Britain,
even if it is rather a display of privately owned vehicles.
1895.Los brothers Charles and Frank Duryea founded in Lansing
(Michigan) the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. It is the first
company established in the United States to engage in the
commercial manufacture of automobiles.
1896.Henry Ford builds his first vehicle
quadricycle motor (quad) and performs
the first dynamic tests. The same year,
Ransom Eli Olds and Alexander Winton
also end his first experimental vehicles.

10. In 1900, the mass production of automobiles had begun in France
and the United States. The first automobile companies were
created to manufacture the French Panhard et Levassor and
Peugeot

11. Researchers appear little by little improving security at cars as well
as the first anti-theft systems; the cars are improved in many ways:
gearbox, wheels, bodywork; even styles change to suit the times.
Appear the first electric
vehicles, possible sources of
renewable energy
are searched

13. Future cars