First of all, let’s start with the power system. The earliest modern cars were powered by steam. Here to correct a misconception, Watt did not invent the steam engine. The textbook says that Watt invented it when he saw the lid of a kettle popping. Steam engine, that's bullshit. The real inventor of the steam engine was the Englishman Thomas Newcomen in 1712 who invented a steam engine that did not rely on humans and animals to do work but relied on machinery to do work. It was called the Newcomen steam engine.
After this, in 1769, Watt collaborated with Bolton and invented a steam engine equipped with a condenser. In November 1774, they collaborated again to create a real steam engine. It laid the foundation for the development of steam turbines and internal combustion engines. , then, in 1769, the Frenchman N.J. Guignaud built the world's first steam-driven three-wheeled car. The car was named "Cabiore".
In 1886, German engineer Nicholas Otto successfully trial-produced a vertical four-stroke internal combustion engine that was epoch-making in the history of power. This is the power basis of contemporary automobiles, the 4-stroke Otto cycle internal combustion engine.
In 1897, the German Rudolf Diesel successfully trial-produced the first diesel engine. To commemorate him, the diesel engine was also called the Diesel diesel engine.
That’s it. The two hearts of modern cars are beginning to take shape. It laid the foundation for the beginning of modern automobiles.
In the true sense, the first epoch-making modern car was successfully developed by the German Karl Benz in October 1885. It set the tone for car design in one fell swoop. Even today’s cars have jumped. Don't step outside this box. He applied for a patent for the automobile invention to the German Patent Office on January 29, 1886, and it was officially approved and released by the Patent Office on November 2 of the same year. Therefore, January 29, 1886 is recognized as the birth day of the world's automobiles, and Benz's patent certificate became the world's first automobile patent certificate.