Thus average fixed cost is the fixed cost per unit of output. Suppose for a firm the total fixed cost is Rs. 2,000 when output is 100 units, average fixed cost (AFC) will be Rs. 2,000/100 = Rs. 20 and when output is expanded to 200 units, average fixed cost will be Rs. 2,000/200 = Rs.
On July 3, 1886, mechanical engineer Karl Benz drove the first automobile in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph). The automobile was powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine.
In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered automobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz. This is also considered to be the first production vehicle as Benz made several identical copies.n 1908, the first South American automobile was built in Peru, the Grieve. Motor cars were also exported very early to British colonies and the first motor car was exported to India in 1897. Throughout the veteran car era, however, the automobile was seen more as a novelty than as a genuinely useful device.