The Hippomobile is an

automobile A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarde ...

invented by

Étienne Lenoir Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, also known as Jean J. Lenoir (12 January 1822 – 4 August 1900), was a Belgian-French engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807 ( ...

in 1863 which carried its own

internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal c ...

. It was based on his 1860 invention, the Lenoir gas engine.

History

In 1863 the Hippomobile, powered by one cylinder internal combustion engine, made a test drive from

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to Joinville-le-Pont, covering about eleven miles in less than three hours. This was a fair achievement at the time.de Rivaz, Lenoir and Delamare-Debouteville
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''Engine Maturity, Efficiency, and Potential Improvements''
US Dept of Energy, Washington, page 7 1860s cars 1863 introductions Hydrogen cars {{Veteran-auto-stub

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