In today’s edition of What the Heck, we have the strange case of Ford wanting to put what is essentially a fake manual ...

A recently published patent application describes a simulated manual transmission shifter lever for Ford's future electric ...

A Ford patent shows a manual transmission for an electric vehicle that could feature in an eventual electric Mustang coupe.

Ford’s new electric vehicles could soon see a retro addition: manual gear shifters. A patent application from the automaker ...

A manual transmission is not inherently new, but legacy automaker Ford (F) has a whole new plan for it to show up somewhere ...

Hyundai and BMW have already jumped on this trend, but it seems Ford wants to outdo them both: Designing a manual ...

The patent—titled Shifter Assembly For Electric Vehicle —showcases a properly old-school shift lever mounted in a box. If ...

Back in 2022, Toyota filed a patent for a virtual transmission and tested the ‘Manual BEV concept’ in a Lexus UX300e. That ...

Ford has patented a novel system to bring the feel of manual transmissions to electric vehicles, although actual gears and ...

Ford is patenting a way to give EVs a stick shift. The move is aimed at making EVs more fun to drive but very few young ...

Patented in 2023 and released in March this year, the new patent filed by Ford describes a new type of gear lever, not for ...