A feature that has shut off millions of engines at red lights for the past decade and a half is starting to disappear from ...
The Trump administration is taking aim at automatic engine start-stop systems—technology installed in millions of U.S. vehicles to reduce fuel use and emissions—with Environmental Protection Agency ...
Get in almost any new non-EV these days, and chances are it has engine stop-start, a fuel-saving feature that turns off the engine when the vehicle is stopped for any length of time at a stoplight or ...
Earlier this month, the EPA ended the “off‑cycle” emissions credit for automatic engine start‑stop systems, thereby removing the OEM incentive to install them on mass-market vehicles. As a result, ...
Drivers with mixed feelings about the start-stop system that automakers use to strengthen their environmental street cred will be delighted to hear that the government might be removing it altogether.
A feature that arrived in most new vehicles without drivers ever asking for it is now disappearing from option sheets almost ...