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The author discusses history and evolution of cars since the inception of automatic locomotive . Three currently available types of automobiles are gasoline , hybrid and electric cars . Author discusses these alternatives in terms of costs , price , energy consumption and environmental impact or pollution . After a thorough discussion , author recommends the type of fuel technology based on all these aspects Executive Summary

The first car was developed in France in 1769 . It was powered by steam First car using

modern technologies appeared in 1885 . Most of the inventions used in current automobiles were perfected by 1930 . Three fuel technologies in use in currently produced cars are gasoline , hybrid and electric . Gasoline is the most polluting fuel and electricity is the least . Hybrid cars present a practical and viable alternative but are very costly . Electric cars are least convenient to use but have potential to be the car of the future if technologies improve

Historical Development and Evolution of Cars

The first car was powered by steam (Bottorff . Nicolas Cugnot , a French military engineer , developed the first self-propelled vehicle for the French army in 1769 . He accomplished this by switching the back-and-forth action of a steam piston into rotary motion . The vehicle could reach maximum of walking speed and carried four tones . In 1801 Richard Trevithick improved the design of steam engines , by making them smaller and lighter with stronger boilers generating more power . He put one of his new compact steam engines...