Who is the first to invent car?
The first car, if by car one means a self propelled vehicle, was invented in 1769 in France by Nicolas Cugnot; it was three-wheeled and powered by steam. The first electricity driven car was invented by Robert Anderson in the 1830s in Scotland; the invention was further improved by the American Thomas Davenport (1842). The first gas powered car was invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler; also in 1885 Karl Benz built the Benz Motorwagen with an internal combustion engine closely resembling the modern day automobile. Both the vehicles could be said to be the prototypes of the modern day vehicle, in fact Daimler built the World’s first four wheeled vehicle, the Cannstatt-Diamler, which ran on a four stroke engine and can be regarded as the first car in the true sense of the word. Both the steam powered and the electric driven vehicles could not withstand the competition from the gas powered ones and eventually disappeared from the scene.
