Because we use them every day, the operation of a car seems simple, but a car is a very complex machine. One of the most complex systems in the typical vehicle is the automatic transmission. This ...

The advent of early automatic transmissions revolutionized the automotive industry and reshaped car ownership habits. By ...

From torque converters to dual-clutch and CVTs, modern automatics take very different paths to the same job. Despite its ubiquity, the automatic transmission is one of the most mechanically complex ...

Automatic shift transmissions were first introduced on a broad scale in the late 1930s, and while they were a novelty for many years, today they are very near a standard piece of equipment on most ...

Automatic transmissions have been present in cars for over a century now, with the original concept being patented in the early 1920s. Since those early days, automatic transmission design has gone ...

The type of transmission in your car dramatically impacts how it drives and what's required from the driver. According to CarMax, the number of manual transmissions sold over the past three decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a time when you couldn’t fake your way into a truck driver’s seat. The twin-stick transmissions in those old trucks were ...

Mahindra Automotive North America now has an automatic transmission available for the ROXOR. Previously, the ROXOR was only available with a manual transmission. The ROXOR A/T comes with a six-speed ...

If you thought you knew all of the mid-drive motors in the e-bike world, think again. The French company Valeo has just unveiled a radical new type of mid-drive electric motor that adds a built-in ...