Diesel engines were first used in submarines and ships since before they were used in cars. According to "Diesel engine history", a Russian oil company named Branobel designed the first diesel engine for use on a ship, the first of which were launched in 1903.
The Mercedes-Benz 260D, first diesel engined passenger car in the world was introduced by Daimler-Benz in 1936, and produced through 1940.
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Karl Friedrich Benz, born 25th November 1844, is generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by a gasoline engine.
Citroën was the first to introduce a diesel powered car in 1933 with the Rosalie.
1801, Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for roads).
He is credited with producing the first practicalinternal combustion, gasoline powered, vehicle.
The first working steam-powered vehicle was likely to have been designed around 1672. The first unmanned aircraft were created in the 1700s.
It depends on how you define a "car." Otto Benz built the first gasoline-engine-powered car in 1885. However, Nicholas Cugnot built a steam-powered three-wheel vehicle a century earlier (1779).
The first gas powered vehicle was invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler
The world's first diesel-powered locomotive was operated in the summer of 1912 on the Winterthur-Romanshorn Railroad in Switzerland, but was not a commercial success.
From auto- "self", and mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses. An enclosed passenger vehicle powered by an engine.
If we agree to exclude vehicles powered by steam, diesel or electricity, the first motorcycle was the Petroleum Reitwagen, built in 1885 by Gottleib Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. This was however a prototype or test vehicle and the first production series motorcycle recognisable by way of two wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine was manufactured by Hildebrand & Wolfmüller in Munich in 1894.