by There are established concepts that no one doubts. For example, that the founder of Tesla is Elon Musk. But is this really the case? TopGir will tell you about this and more in this post dedicated to the most unknown and interesting facts about cars.
Who actually founded Tesla
Musk joined Tesla when it had already been existing for more than a year. The true founders of the American company were engineers and businessmen Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
100 years ago half of the cars were electric vehicles
electric vehicles of the early 20th century
There is an opinion that electric cars only became fashionable and popular in recent years.
But in reality, this is far from true—almost 40% of the entire fleet in the early last century consisted of electric vehicles, while gasoline cars were half as many. The rest were steam-powered.
The inventor of cruise control was blind
Ralph Teetor lost his sight at an early age, but that did not prevent him from pursuing his favorite occupation—inventing. And it was this American who created the “speed holder” in 1945, an analogue of modern cruise control (not adaptive, of course), and eight years later his invention appeared on Chrysler mass-produced cars.
More than half of Rolls-Royce cars are still driving
The Rolls-Royce brand was founded in 1906. It is unlikely that anyone born that year is still alive. But 75% of luxury cars by the British manufacturer are still on the move!
This refers to all the cars made by the Englishmen.
It is also interesting to add here that the history of Rolls-Royce in Ukraine began in the first half of the 20th century. The first car was bought by an Odessa citizen, who became the owner of a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Colonial, which the Ukrainian ordered in 1914!
The car with the highest mileage
We have already published a ranking of the TOP-3 cars with the highest mileage. But there is one true champion among champions. Moreover, this car owner has broken his own record several times. We are talking about Irvin Gordon, the owner of a 1966 Volvo P1800S, who traveled…
4,586,630 km on it!
It would be interesting to check this car’s history by VIN code using VIN lookup.
