Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz... Wikipedia

• Classification:  Vehicle
• Industry:  Various
• Application:  Transportation
• Fuel source:  Petrol, Diesel, Natural gas, Hydrogen, Biodiesel, Battery, Fuel cell, Solar cell, Hybrids of the above
• Powered:  Yes
• Self-propelled:  Yes
• Wheels:  3–6, most often 4
• Axles:  2, less commonly 3
• Inventor:  Carl Benz
• Invented:  1886
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo