Vehicles

A vehicle is a machine that transports people or cargo.

Vehicles includes:

• Motor vehicles: Motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses
• Railed vehicles: Trains, trams
• Watercraft: Ships, boats
• Aircraft: Airplanes, helicopters
• Spacecraft.

Vehicles can get propulsion power from various sources, for example :

• Human muscles: Examples are bicycles and skateboards.
• Engines: Examples are automobiles, ships, and aeroplanes.
• Electricity: Examples are many passenger trains.
• Animals: Examples are carts and chariots.
• Wind: Examples are sailboats and iceboats.

Let’s see some the vehicles:

Name of Vehicle	Description
Bus	1. Bus is the most common road vehicle in India, used for public and school transport with a limited capacity of passengers. 2. The most common type of bus in India are double decker, minibuses, Traveller bus and single decker bus.
Truck	1. Most common trucks in India are Tipper, Trailer, lorry, dumper and equipment heavy duty trucks.
Tractor	1. Tractor is the most common agricultural equipment vehicle. 2. India is world’s largest producer of four-wheel tractors. 3. Tractors in India is a major industry.
Car	1. A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation. 2. Most definitions of car say they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four tires. 3. Mainly transport people rather than goods.
Bicycle	1. A bicycle, also called a cycle or bike, is a human-powered or motor-powered vehicle. 2. It is pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. 3. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.
Airplane	1. An airplane or aeroplane is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine. 2. Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft. 3. But some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled such as drones.
Spacecraft	1. A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. 2. Robotic spacecraft used to support scientific research are space probes. 3. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary body are artificial satellites.
Ship	1. A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world’s oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying passengers or goods. 2. It is also in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. 3. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity, and tradition.
Train	1. A passenger train includes passengers-carrying vehicles and can often be very long and fast. 2. A freight train (or goods train) uses freight cars (or wagons/trucks) to transport goods or materials (cargo). 3. It is possible to carry passengers and freight in the same train using a mixed consist.
Hot Air Balloon	1. A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft. 2. It consists of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. 3. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the colder air outside the envelope. 4. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere.

Interesting Facts::

• Ferrari produces a maximum of 14 cars per day. Most manufacturers put out thousands of cars on a daily basis. As a case in point, Ford reaches an astronomical production rate of 8,000-10,0000 each day.
• Car dashboards were originally designed to prevent mud from splattering the driver of a horse-drawn carriage.
• Roads were first made for bicyclists, not cars.
• Red cars are prohibited in Shanghai, China.
• The world’s most profitable car manufacturer is Porsche.
• It takes about 25 hours to build a car, a whopping 10 hours of that 25 is spent painting the car.
• 1 out of every 4 cars produced in the world come from China.
• The automobile is the most recycled product in the world.