The F-CELL Roadster, a fuel cell powered car, recently covered a small section of the Bertha Benz memorial route, the first long-distance journey in automobile history in August, 1888.

Bertha Benz Route In Germany Marks A Woman's Contribution To Early Motoring. When Bertha Benz drove off in husband Carl’s motorized invention 125 years ago, she had no idea she would be driving ...

S-Class Drives Completely Autonomously Bertha Benz's Memorial Route. Published: 9 Sep 2013, 08:59 UTC • By: Alex Oagana. 7 photos. Photo: Daimler AG. In August 1888, Bertha Benz ...

You can still drive the Bertha Benz Memorial Route today, but it’ll take you about an hour as opposed to the 12 it took Bertha—though, presumably, you won’t be making stops to make MacGyver ...

On Aug. 5, 1888, Bertha Benz, wife and business partner of Karl Benz, hopped into a Patent Motorwagen Model III with her two sons and went for a little drive. To today’s ears, this sounds ...

BERTHA Benzwas the first person to drive a vehicle powered by the internal combustion engine over a long distance to prove that the car was a means of transport for the future. It changed Benz’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kathy Arnold follows the route of the first long-distance drive in history, forged by Bertha Benz. The splutter of the motor sounds ...

As for Bertha, she lived until 1944, dying at the grand old age of 95. Today you can go to Mannheim and retrace her steps by following the signs of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

Today, Bertha’s significant contribution to the automotive industry is commemorated by the Bertha Benz Memorial Route, a tourist road that follows the tracks of her original road trip from ...

• Best first cars. We got behind the wheel of Nissan’s latest Leaf, which has a claimed all-electric range of 155 miles – enough to complete the Bertha Benz Memorial Route without stopping.

She covered the distance, now known as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route, in about 12 hours. Her purpose was to draw attention to the invention, which she certainly did.

BERTHA Benz was married to automobile genius Karl Benz but was herself something of a motoring pioneer. Share. by Maggie Barry; 01:00, 10 Apr 2015 Updated 14:31, 2 Jun 2015; See news near you.