When the start-stop feature kicked in at a red light, the fuel consumption dropped to 0 instantly. The 50-kilometer one-way ...

To be honest, when I bought the car, the salesperson praised the auto start-stop feature to the skies, claiming it was ...

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 ...

Imagine being stopped at a red light at a busy four-way intersection. Watch the tailpipes of the gasoline-powered cars and trucks around you venting wasted exhaust emissions into the air. What would ...

A slew of Honda and Acura models are under federal investigation due to reports of drivers’ automatic stop-start functions failing to restart after turning off. Affected owners have noted their ...

Today’s vehicles are designed to maximize fuel economy in numerous ways. One such feature is the automatic start/stop function that shuts off the engine when your car is idling and restarts it when ...

Car manufacturers design start/stop systems with special batteries and components to handle thousands of engine cycles.

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The leader of the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back the automatic start-stop feature in cars. The start-stop technology was implemented in more cars following federal regulations ...

Recently we covered how keyless ignition systems could be a secret killer. After this story was posted, I was contacted by a Porsche owner whose family was only saved from a similar fate by the carbon ...