Ford is recalling 2.9 million vehicles that might not shift into the correct gear and could move in an unintended direction.

Ford Patents A Manual Gear Shifter For EVs It's deployable and can function as a sequential shifter or a full-on six-speed stick. Too bad there aren't actual gears to swap.

A patent application from the automaker Ford published this month details a gear shifter for electric cars that mimics the appearance of a traditional stick shift without any gears to switch between.