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

Part of the crisis of the ongoing transition to electric vehicles, some enthusiasts say, is that EVs are less fun to drive, in part because there’s no use in an EV for a manual transmission. Those ...

The Interactive Manual Drive system, also referred to as a “virtual manual gearbox”, allows drivers to change gears in a traditional way by using paddle shifters, however there is no clutch pedal.

If automobiles catch your fancy and you are captivated by all things on wheels, you have come to the right place. You have come to HT Auto. Welcome to the latest developments from the Indian and ...

Lexus gave the RZ a new water-cooled battery with more battery cells that are more advanced than before, as well as a new, more efficient eAxle and drive motors with optimized control systems to ...

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

Is Toyota Motor Corporation late again at the party, and have the house guests already left, or did it wisely come fashionably late when things settled down?

Lexus just upgraded its electric SUV in nearly every way possible. The 2026 Lexus RZ now has more driving range and power with a fully redesigned BEV system. But, that’s not all. The electric ...

Exclusive to the F Sport is an “Interactive Manual Drive” with paddle shifters to fake shifts. Engine sounds with a rev limiter and visual cues indicate when a driver should “shift,” and ...

The new RZ also introduces what Lexus calls "Interactive Manual Drive," which purports to mimic an eight-speed manual transmission. Details are few, but this is a software-based program with both ...

This is a follow-up review of sorts with Amy Plemons' recent review of the 2025 Audi Q6 e-tron all-electric SUV. This week, I ...

Microsoft is adding new data agents to Fabric, its cloud-based offering combining data warehousing, data science, data ...