Morning Overview on MSN

Start/stop engines are dying, here’s what finally killed the feature

For more than a decade, automatic engine start/stop systems were sold as painless climate tech, a clever way to trim fuel use ...
FODMAP Everyday® on MSN

You hit your car’s start button daily—but do you know about these 5 hidden features?

Push-button start has moved quickly from luxury extra to everyday standard, yet many drivers still treat it as a simple ...
GM Authority

Automatic Stop-Start In 70 Percent Of 2019 Model-Year GM Vehicles Sold In The U.S.

Automatic stop-start technology is equipped in roughly 70 percent of all General Motors vehicles that were sold in the United States in 2019. In its 2019 Sustainability Report, GM claimed that over 70 ...
Jalopnik

Does Automatic Start/Stop Actually Improve Fuel Economy?

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 ...
Road & Track

NHTSA Investigating 2.2 Million Hondas and Acuras Over Possible Engine Stop-Start Failure

The advent of engine stop-start features has likely been a net positive on the air we breathe, but there can be a certain disdain for the feature shared among enthusiasts and commuters alike; it can ...
KTVU

EPA chief proposes rollback of automatic red-light car engine stop-start feature

The leader of the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back the automatic start-stop feature in cars. The start-stop technology was implemented in more cars following federal regulations ...
GM Authority

2021 Chevy Suburban Fuel Economy Without Automatic Engine Stop-Start

The global microchip shortage has resulted in numerous production cuts and limited availability for a number of features on new GM vehicles, as GM Authority has covered in the past. That includes the ...
Consumer Reports

Does the Start/Stop Function Really Improve Your Car’s Fuel Economy?

Today’s vehicles are designed to maximize fuel economy in numerous ways. One such feature is the automatic start/stop function that shuts off the engine when your car is idling and restarts it when ...
The Daily Dot

‘Look at what the starter’s doing’: Expert shows damage on 2018 Chevy Traverse—and warns why you shouldn’t trust cars that auto-start

Auto start-stop is a popular feature on many modern vehicles. As the name implies, this is a system that automatically turns off and restarts a vehicle’s engine to help lower fuel consumption and ...
The Daily Dot

‘The amount of tension between me and this button’: Woman drives GMC Yukon. There’s just one problem

It seems like there’s not much else in this world that unites people in 2025 like the shared disdain that car drivers the world over have for the auto start-stop function that’s a default setting on ...
Autoblog

Honda Pilot investigated for engines that won't restart

View post: Supercharged 2019 Dodge Durango SRT 392 For Sale With Just 52,510 Miles The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the 2016-2019 Honda Pilot earlier ...