While automatic transmissions are so common now that they've largely supplanted stick shifts. When was the first automatic ...

When it comes to transmissions, cars used to fall under two categories: manual and automatic. However, a third type of ...

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 ...

Allison Transmission has spent more than a century turning a niche engineering specialty into a global franchise in heavy-duty automatics, while General Motors has steadily stepped back from a ...

It’s been two years since we first reported on a drive of an early Allison TC10 automatic transmission. Since then, the innovative product has undergone more testing and development and has entered ...

A startup called Sigma Powertrain believes purpose-built multi-speed gearboxes can boost efficiency, reduce battery size and ...