You know this means that Democrats are now going to be in favor of it, right?
Trump emission rules cut ‘universally hated’ start-stop feature in cars
President Donald Trump says he’s doing a big favor for car buyers: getting rid of the start-stop button that have bedeviled drivers for several years.
As part of its broader rollback of U.S. fuel economy rules, the Trump administration says it is eliminating a credit for automakers that got breaks on the fuel economy compliance if they installed start-stop buttons on their vehicles that shut off engines when the cars are idling.
“You’re going to get a better car, you’re going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better for a lot less money,” Trump said at a White House event announcing the change.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin added in a statement that labeled the elimination of the credit for start-stop system “an added bonus” to Trump’s broader emission rule rollback “the off-cycle credit for the almost universally despised start-stop feature on vehicles has been removed.”
There is nothing in the new rules that will force carmakers to quit using the start-stop feature if they still want to, but the Trump administration is removing the fuel economy that has spurred its adoption for the past decade.
No one likes it. I had it in my 2022 Honda Civic, and, Honda’s is more of an auto engine idle, not an off, and they really do not kick in that much of 4 cylinder vehicles. I still turned it off. Further, the feature is not for the consumer: it’s for the manufacturer. It saves very little gas, but, when you look at it for the whole fleet it helps avoid fines and fees from states. And that is from a vice president of a car company.
What will most likely happen is manufacturers make it so you can have it enabled or disabled when you start your car, not having to press the button when you turn the car on. And may well remove them when they do a refresh or redesign.
And what lots of the Trump deranged are saying is “you can just turn the button off, you know arrglebargle!” And we also get
We need lots more mental health facilities for these people.
Your Mad King: “You’re going to get a better car, you’re going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better for a lot less money.”
Promises made!! CO2 is necessary for life on Earth!!
Anyway, real-world studies indicate a 7%–24% fuel saving, primarily benefiting drivers in heavy city, stop-and-go traffic.
Yeah, that’s the kind of propaganda that Rimjob and other leftists are spreading around.
“Anyway, real-world studies indicate a 7%–24% fuel saving, primarily benefiting drivers in heavy city, stop-and-go traffic.”
I’m sure government-funded studies indicate that. For those of us who are not generally driving in the city, it’s annoying and useless – much like Democrats.
Actually the real world reveals the problems with the start-stop system on internal combustion engines.
Another little something lefties ignore.
I drove a rental BMW in Italy that had that ridiculous feature, so of course I hate it.
The engine shut off every time I came to a stop. That meant at every stopping intersection, which includes times when Italian roads bottleneck down from the however many lanes drivers created independently — individual lanes weren’t marked — to a single lane, and in stop-and-go traffic on the S2 freeway into Firenza.
Without that ‘feature,’ you start your car when you begin a trip, meaning when you aren’t already in the middle of traffic. If the starter fails, it’s annoying, but you are still someplace you deliberately parked. Car starters, like every other mechanical feature, can eventually fail.
My 2010 F-150, with 202,084 miles on it, is still on its original starter. But would it be if, instead of being required once for every trip, it had to work eight or ten or fourteen times per trip? F(ornicate) that!