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498. In the 1890s, the Best-Selling Car Was … Electric

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The Steam Engine Automobile

The first automobile was built by dimler bens, which eventually owned mercedes. By the 18 nineties it's possible to build essentially a large tricycle and put an internal combustion engine in it. There were three technologies vying for supremacy: steam engines, gasolene or kerosene-powered cars.

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