Vehicle

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The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV)
Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles.
This article is about the means of transport. For other uses see Vehicle (disambiguation).

Vehicles are non-living means of transport. They are most often man-made (e.g. bicycles, cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, and aircraft), although some other means of transport which are not made by man can also be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks.

Vehicles may be propelled by animals, e.g. a chariot or an ox-cart. However, animals on their own, though used as a means of transport, are not called vehicles. This includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person.

Vehicles that do not travel on land are often called crafts, such as watercraft, sailcraft, aircraft, hovercraft and spacecraft

Most land vehicles have wheels. Please see the wheel article for examples of vehicles with and without wheels.

Movement without the help of a vehicle or an animal is called locomotion. The word vehicle itself comes from the Latin vehiculum.

Contents

  • 1 Bicycle
    • 1.1 Tricycle
    • 1.2 Quadricycle
  • 2 Electric road carriages
  • 3 Steam road carriage
    • 3.1 Steam tricycle
  • 4 Petroleum (gasoline / diesel) motor-carriages
  • 5 Road trains
  • 6 The motorcycle
  • 7 Mechanical rail-vehicles
  • 8 Mechanical water vehicles
  • 9 Mechanical under-water vehicles
  • 10 Mechanical air vehicles
  • 11 Mechanical snow vehicles
  • 12 Types of vehicles
  • 13 Acronyms and abbreviations
  • 14 See also
  • 15 External links

[edit] Bicycle

see Bicycles (see also Vehicular Cycling)
see main article History of the bicycle

[edit] Tricycle

see Tricycle

[edit] Quadricycle

see Quadricycle

[edit] Electric road carriages

see electric vehicle
see history of the electric vehicle

[edit] Steam road carriage

see steam car

[edit] Steam tricycle

See steam tricycle

At the other end of the scale much lighter steam vehicles where being constructed such as the steam tricycle from the Comte de Dion in 1887.

[edit] Petroleum (gasoline / diesel) motor-carriages

See motor-carriage
See Ford's model T
See Automobile

[edit] Road trains

A road train consists of a conventional heavy truck pulling three trailers or more, used in rural areas of Australia to move bulky loads such as livestock efficiently.

[edit] The motorcycle

See Motorcycle
See Gottlieb Daimler

[edit] Mechanical rail-vehicles

see Trains
see Trams

[edit] Mechanical water vehicles

see Boats
see Ships

[edit] Mechanical under-water vehicles

see submarines
see submersibles
see diving bells
see diving chambers

[edit] Mechanical air vehicles

see aircraft

[edit] Mechanical snow vehicles

see snowmobile

[edit] Types of vehicles

[edit] Acronyms and abbreviations

Main article: Vehicle acronyms and abbreviations