You probably think you’re being kind to your engine on icy mornings, either by hopping in and driving gently right away or by ...

Besides preventing the build-up of nasty engine sludge and premature wear, protection against cold starts is one of the main reasons why you should never skip an oil change in your gasoline or diesel ...

We contacted automakers for their take on this hot-button issue (no pun intended) and got some surprising responses.

Start-stop is a relatively small feature with a dense engineering stack behind it. Modern systems tie together the engine control unit, starter-alternator hardware, beefed-up 12-volt or ...

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 ...

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 ...

The EPA said it will end credits for the start/stop feature, which shuts off gas engines when cars are idle to save fuel.

Nobody really likes the tech, so the feds are apparently about to tell automakers to make some changes.