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Any gains might depend on whether you're driving on the highway or in the cityBy Devin PrattToday’s vehicles are designed to ...
EPA to strip fuel economy credits from stop-start systems, calling the tech “hated” and minimally beneficial. Automakers may ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving to ax credits for vehicles with start-stop technology. Obama-era regulatory credits benefiting manufacturers ...
Administrator Lee Zeldin said “everyone hates it,” but it’s still unclear what the EPA plans to do about start/stop systems.
Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed rolling back the federal incentives that helped push the automatic start-stop feature in millions of U.S. cars.
It's a feature that is annoying to a lot of drivers, but it's one that may soon be a thing of the past.  Environmental ...
The EPA’s mission, as proudly stated on its own website, is to “protect human health and the environment.” But someone might ...
Lee Zeldin, who is currently serving as the 17th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tweeted that ...
EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it,” says Lee Zeldin. It’s unclear what “fixing” means here. Engine start / stop systems can already give you better fuel economy, as explained ...
Of course, that’s not technically what’s going on here, but the EPA does offer car makers something called “off-cycle credits” that incentivize the use of start/stop technology ...
I despise it. Sure, you can turn it off—but just the idea of having it in a gas-powered car is ridiculous." While unpopular with many drivers, the start-stop system does offer some fuel savings ...
One such feature is the automatic start/stop function that shuts off the engine when your car is idling and restarts it when the brake is released or the accelerator is engaged. But just how much ...