For more than a decade, automatic engine start/stop systems were sold as painless climate tech, a clever way to trim fuel use by cutting the engine at every red light. Now the feature is rapidly ...

Start-stop technology shuts the engine off at traffic lights and restarts it the instant you lift the brake. It saves 3 to 10 ...

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, ...

What just happened? The Environmental Protection Agency is stripping automakers of a key compliance tool: emissions credits for automatic start-stop systems, the software-driven technology that shuts ...

Start/stop systems are among the simplest ideas in automotive history—turn off the engine when you don’t need it, save fuel, and start again when you do. Passenger cars embraced this decades ago, but ...

The Trump administration is eliminating a credit for automakers that install start-stop engine technology. Administration officials labeled the feature as "universally despised" and an "idiotic ...

Some vehicles come with an auto start-stop feature that shuts off the engine when drivers brake. Is this feature worth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is eliminating credits for automakers that include automatic start-stop engine systems, a feature ...

WASHINTON, D.C. - Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) introduced H.R. 6200, the Eliminating Start-Stop Engine Nuisance Technologies that Impair Automobile Life (ESSENTIAL) Act, which would end ...

Engine auto stop-start—let’s call it ESS—has become an exasperating example of how a small compromise can combust into a cultural grievance. It’s a feature designed to save a little fuel and reduce ...

The latest addition in Volvo’s striving for fuel savings is developed in-house at Volvo and is based on the company’s existing I-See and I-Roll technologies. The new stop/start engine feature is ...

The Trump administration is eliminating credits for automakers that include automatic start-stop engine systems, a feature originally intended to reduce emissions but one that has frustrated many ...