Engine auto stop-start—let’s call it ESS—has become an exasperating example of how a small compromise can combust into a cultural grievance. It’s a feature designed to save a little fuel and reduce ...

Earlier this month, the EPA ended the “off‑cycle” emissions credit for automatic engine start‑stop systems, thereby removing the OEM incentive to install them on mass-market vehicles. As a result, ...

Last Thursday, President Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the elimination of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and all the federal emission standards for ...

The EPA, under the Trump administration, has eliminated the credit for the "almost universally hated" auto start-stop feature. The move was described as the single largest deregulatory action in U.S.

The Trump administration is eliminating a credit for automakers that install start-stop engine technology. Administration officials labeled the feature as "universally despised" and an "idiotic ...

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 ...

What just happened? The Environmental Protection Agency is stripping automakers of a key compliance tool: emissions credits for automatic start-stop systems, the software-driven technology that shuts ...

The Trump administration has just decided to repeal the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Findings, a move that the president calls "the largest regulatory action in U.S. history." One of the consequences ...

Vehicle stop-start features, which automatically turn off engines at red lights, could soon become less prevalent because of the Trump administration’s announced repeal of the government finding ...

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