A decade ago, a car getting an automatic start/stop system was news, but these days, they've been almost entirely forgotten outside of a small group of weirdos who can't let it go. Unfortunately for ...

Divisive? Yes. Saves fuel? Yes. Universally hated? Hmmm... As part of the Environmental Protection Agency's sweeping reforms to limit its own abilities to regulate gas emissions, EPA head Lee Zeldin ...

The automatic start-stop system on modern automobiles comes with all the good intentions, but it can be annoying, as well. Research suggests that completely shutting off the car (even for brief spells ...

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 start/stop systems, the fuel-saving tech that cuts the engine when the car ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened an engineering analysis into a whopping 2.2 million Honda vehicles. According to the federal watchdog, ...

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 ...

In this extract from just-auto’s QUBE research on electric vehicle technologies, we take a quick look at so-called stop-start systems. Do you know, for example, that Mazda’s solution does not involve ...

Push-button start may be common today, but it wasn't always the dominant way to crank an engine. Push-button start systems and ignition key systems activate the same process in different ways. Do you ...

The gradual emergence of eco-friendly vehicles on our roads has featured, among other technical wizardry, systems that automatically switch off vehicle engines during idling, for instance at red ...

In today’s shifting car world, how we fire up engines keeps evolving take the clean tap of a start button versus the old-school roll-and-drop trick for stick shifts. Knowing the small differences ...