The Environmental Protection Agency says it is ending credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems ...

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 ...

We contacted automakers for their take on this hot-button issue (no pun intended) and got some surprising responses.

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?

GM faces a choice on automatic stop-start after EPA rule changes. Should the automaker kill the feature or give drivers permanent control?

As part of the Trump administration's changing emissions policy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it would be abandoning support of engine stop-start systems on all vehicles sold ...

The EPA said it will end credits for the start/stop feature, which shuts off gas engines when cars are idle to save fuel.

Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at ...

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 ...

Automatic stop-start technology is equipped in roughly 70 percent of all General Motors vehicles that were sold in the United States in 2019. In its 2019 Sustainability Report, GM claimed that over 70 ...

Divisive? Yes. Saves fuel? Yes. Universally hated?

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 ...