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World’s Oldest Running Car and Other (Car) News of the Week
As you know, a random question by The Four-Year-Old has sent Caterpickles Central into a tizzy over very old cars this week. Turns out I can’t shake my fascination with them. Particularly the steam-powered kind, which I suppose makes sense … Continue reading
“Why did the internal combustion engine win?”
Yesterday, we learned that in the early days of the automobile industry steam and electric cars were quieter, cleaner, faster, and more popular than cars that ran primarily on gas. So why did the internal combustion engine win out? In … Continue reading
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Tagged Electric Car, Henry Ford, Internal combustion engine, steam car, Steam engine, Transportation, why cars use gas
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“When were cars invented?”
That depends on what you mean by car. If, like Wikipedia, you define a car simply as “a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor,” then the first car was invented in … Continue reading
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