Nearly 100 years later, a handful of Velies have survived and there is an Official Velie Register that keeps track of all extant cars.

Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this ...

In the 1890s, horse-drawn transport led waste to build up heavily in major cities. A new Sky HISTORY series looks at how the ...

Karl Benz had been developing the Motorwagen piece by piece since the 1870s, ultimately bringing it to market in the mid-1880s.

Technological innovation is nothing new to the brand with the three-pointed star. Ever since Karl Benz drove his Patent Motorwagen for the first time more than 130 years ago, Mercedes-Benz has ...

The world marks the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile on Jan. 29. Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that ...

Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner, believed in her husband’s invention. She had been there since the beginning, and provided much of the funding for it along the way.

Daisy Ridley narrates the Meta Quest VR experience 'Trailblazer,' which is contending for an Outstanding Emerging Media ...

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world's first car.

Without her, Karl Benz would have spent the rest of his life obsessively trying to get that motor up from 2/3 HP to a massive 7/8 HP. Thanks, Bertha.

In the almost 140 years since Karl Benz first stuck a two-stroke engine on a steel tricycle and called it a car, the company bearing its name has had all sorts of adventures. Mercedes-Benz has ...

Mercedes-Benz isn't short of iconic cars. To start with, its co-founder Karl Benz built the first car ever, all the way back in 1885. That's quite a claim to fame.