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 ...

Automakers produce vehicles with standard driver-assistance and safety features that can sometimes feel unnecessary. The auto start-stop feature does benefit a specific type of driver in certain ...

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 ...

Donald Trump-appointed Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin tweeted on Monday implying he will be making it his mission to roll back any progress that automakers had made on automatic start ...

The head of the EPA says "everyone hates" Auto Start-Stop. He's vowed that the agency will "fix" it. How that will be executed is an unknown, but AST tech isn't really broken to begin with. If you've ...

DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce ...

Everybody has an opinion on auto-start/stop, that aspect of modern cars that’s become weirdly politicized. I say “weirdly” because it’s largely optional now, and there’s nothing intrinsically ...

DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers that install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce ...