Bertha Benz, the wife and business partner of Mercedes-Benz founder Carl Benz, was an automotive pioneer, and a campaign by the automaker honors her memory on International Women’s Day.

Mercedes-Benz' Bertha Benz Tribute Film Is Strangely Dark And Feels Like A Trailer For A Horror Movie. By Jason Torchinsky June 8, 2019 11:00 am EST.

Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this video, we explore the incredible story behind the first car ever made and ...

This led her to Bertha Benz, the influential wife of Mercedes-Benz co-creator, Karl Benz. Find out all about Bertha and how she earned a place alongside her husband in automotive history. Even ...

In 1888, the wife of Karl Benz, Bertha, took her husband's Model 3 and drove it for 106 km (66 miles). It was the world's first long distance drive.

Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz. According to that very same car company , Bertha, born in 1849, married Carl when she was 23.

For those that aren't that much into the history of Mercedes-Benz and the automobile in general, Bertha was the wife and at the same time business partner of Car Benz, the German engineer who ...

Carl Benz patented his three-wheeled, petrol-powered Motorwagen in 1886, which his wife, Bertha Benz, proceeded to take on a 120-mile tour through Germany without his knowledge.

August fifth, 2024 marks the 136th anniversary of Bertha Benz’s history-making 66-mile drive from Mannheim to Pforzheim in her husband Karl’s Patent-Motorwagen. Supposedly unbeknownst to Karl ...

Bertha Benz changed automotive history by packing her two teenage sons into a car and driving to her mother’s house. It doesn’t exactly sound impressive, but the year was 1888. A 65-mile road ...

In 2013, however, Mercedes carried out the first autonomous journey in everyday overland and city traffic with its "Bertha Benz" S 500 Intelligent Drive research vehicle, which is now being retired.

When Bertha Benz drove off in husband Carl's motorized invention 125 years ago, she had no idea she would be driving into history. Hers was the world's first long-distance drive and the first ...