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Auto Stop/Start Is Effectively Dead

The EPA's new deregulatory action effectively ends the mandate of auto stop/start on new vehicles.
If you’ve driven almost any gas-powered car made in the last 10 years or so, you’ll no doubt have an opinion on automatic ...
The EPA announced the change by calling it the "elimination" of credits for an "almost universally hated" feature. But is start-stop truly hated, or misunderstood?
Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at ...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions and semiconductor shortages forced automakers to make some tough decisions. For GM, one of the compromises was the removal of Dynamic Fuel ...
Start-stop is a relatively small feature with a dense engineering stack behind it. Modern systems tie together the engine control unit, starter-alternator hardware, beefed-up 12-volt or ...
It seems like there’s not much else in this world that unites people in 2025 like the shared disdain that car drivers the world over have for the auto start-stop function that’s a default setting on ...
Do you have an auto start-stop button? New cars are increasingly equipped with the feature, but one TikToker has had it. Featured Video In a video complaint, Victoria Alese (@victoriaalese) says that ...
With the Environmental Protection Agency swinging the axe on off-cycle credits – those regulatory pats on the head for installing automatic stop-start systems – the feature once forced upon the ...