Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle
Vehículo con motor de hidrógeno
- Date
- 1807 · confidence high
- Place
- Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland
- Credited to
- François Isaac de Rivaz
- Field
- Movement
What it is
De Rivaz's vehicle was one of the first automobiles powered by an internal combustion engine burning hydrogen, a conceptual precursor of modern internal combustion engines and zero-carbon vehicles.
What it led to
- later internal combustion engines
- research into hydrogen-powered vehicles
- early development of automotive locomotion
- conceptual forerunner of zero-emission vehicles