Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2013
The concept of automotive It is used in our language to designate two issues that we will address in detail below.
On the one hand, it is used to refer to study on the machines that are mobilized thanks to the action of a motor, such is the case of automobiles.
The caris one of the means of transport most popular and widespread throughout the world, since its creation towards the end of the 19th century, when the German-born engineer Karl Friedrich Benz he made it up. It's about a vehicle propelled by a motor And that rolls thanks to the wheels it has, being its fundamental parts: body, chassis, frame, tire, wheels, steering wheel, motor, gear lever, brake, direction and suspension. Meanwhile, gasoline, diesel and gas are the fuels that cars use today to get around.
Although the aforementioned Benz is considered the father of the child, he would be the businessman Henry ford who in the early years of the twentieth century would mark a milestone in the production
of automobiles by imposing the assembly line that precisely facilitated the manufacturing serially.And on the other hand the term is used to designate the industry automotive, that is, to the industrial sector linked to automobiles.
It should be noted that the aforementioned industry ranges from design of the automobile, development, manufacturing, continuing with the assembly of parts, sale and repair and is one of the most important worldwide as a result of the enormous amount of jobs that it generates directly, that is, in the very factories and also indirectly by the impressive components industry that walks at its pair.
A measurement dating from 2006 tells us that more than 69 million automobiles were produced throughout the world during that year. Among the most important car manufacturing companies are: Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Fiat, Renault, Suzuki, BMW, Mazda, Chrysler and Volvo, among other.
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