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The first working steam-powered vehicle was potentially designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It is a sixty five cm-long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was not able to carry a driver or a passenger.It’s not known if Verbiest’s model was ever built. In 1752, Leonty Shamshurenkov, a Russian peasant, made a human-pedalled four-wheeled “auto-running” carriage as one of the most 300 Chrysler 2012, and subsequently proposed to equip it with odometer and to use the same principle for making a self-propelling sledge.Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first self-propelled mechanical auto or car in about 1769 ; he created a steam-powered tricycle.[12] He also constructed two steam tractors for the French Army, one being preserved in the French Nationwide Conservatory of Arts and Crafts.[13] His inventions were however handicapped by issues with water supply and maintaining steam pressure.[13] In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road auto. It wasn’t able to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and was of small practical use.