World's first car maker goes electric
![The combustion engine commercialized for personal transport with Benz Patent-Motorwagen has been worth its own weight in gold. Now the company behind it switches to electric. | Photo: Richard Chung/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix](https://photos.watchmedier.dk/watchmedier/resize:fill:3840:0:0/plain/https://photos.watchmedier.dk/Images/article11637093.ece/ALTERNATES/schema-16_9/20060125-083534-5-1572x884we.jpg)
The manufacturer behind the world's first serially produced "car", Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885, is now dropping internal combustion engines entirely.
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