Who invented the first automobile?

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Who invented the first automobile?

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Carl Benz is widely regarded as "the father of the car", as well as the "father of the automobile industry". But at a time when we talk about the phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles and where we recognize the immense usefulness of electric vehicle, we should perhaps also pay tribute to its inventors.

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The first human-carrying electric vehicle with its own power source was tested along a Paris street in April 1881 by French inventor Gustave Trouvé
In 1881, Charles Jeantaud with the help of Camille Alphonse Faure, Gustave oublie and Nicolas Raffard invented the Tilbury, considered to this day to be the first electric car powered by batteries
On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. In July 1886 the newspapers reported on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1.
On August 5, 1888, Bertha Benz made the world's first recorded long-distance road trip by automobile. She proved to her husband and the rest of the world that his invention was suitable for everyday use and had the potential to change everything.

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