The Hippomobile is an automobile invented by Étienne Lenoir in 1863 which carried its own internal combustion engine. It was based on his 1860 invention, the Lenoir gas engine.
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History
In 1863 the Hippomobile, powered by one-cylinder internal combustion engine, made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont, covering about eleven miles in less than three hours. This was a fair achievement at the time.[1][2]
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- Engine Maturity, Efficiency, and Potential Improvements US Dept of Energy, Washington, page 7