1769

The first steam-powered vehicle was designed by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin that could attain speeds of up to 6 km/hour. These early steam-powered vehicles were so heavy that they were only practical on a perfectly flat surface as strong as iron.

1807

The next step towards the development of the car was the invention of the internal combustion engine. Francois Isaac de Rivaz designed the first internal combustion engine in, using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy. 

1825

British inventor Goldsworthy Gurney built a steam car that successfully completed an 85 mile round-trip journey in ten hours time.  

1839

Robert Anderson of Aberdeen, Scotland built the first electric vehicle .  

1860

In, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, a Frenchman, built the first successful two-stroke gas driven engine .  

1886

Historical records indicate that an electric-powered taxicab , using a battery with 28 cells and a small electric motor, was introduced in England.  

1888

Immisch & Company built a four-passenger carriage, powered by a one-horsepower motor and 24-cell battery, for the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In the same year, Magnus Volk in Brighton, England made a three-wheeled electric car. 1890 – 1910 (Period of significant improvements in battery technology)  

Invention Of hybrid vehicle

1890

Jacob Lohner, a coach builder in Vienna, Austria, foresaw the need for an electric vehicle that would be less noisy than the new gas-powered cars. He commissioned a design for an electric vehicle from Austro-Hungarian engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who had recently graduated from the Vienna Technical College. Porsche's first version of the electric car used a pair of electric motors mounted in the front wheel hubs of a conventional car. The car could travel up to 38 miles. To extend the vehicle's range, Porsche added a gasoline engine that could recharge the batteries, thus giving birth to the first hybrid, the Lohner-Porsche Elektromobil .