Now it’s the EPA. And this should be great news for those who drive cars with the start/stop technology.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin blasted stop-start systems in a post Monday on X, signaling that the agency would take action against it.
“Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy,” Zeldin said. “EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it.”
The big picture: The EPA doesn’t mandate stop-start technology, but it provides extra fuel economy credits to automakers that adopt it.
Although some argue that this crap-tech can be turned off, it’s difficult, is defaulted to ‘on’ in a lot of vehicles, and some cars won’t let it be turned off.
The average driver might save $1,000 over a decade of using the vehicle if they live in an urban area with frequent stops, but Enhanced Flooded Batteries and heavy-duty starters also cost more, meaning maintenance swallows up much or all of their savings.
(They also have to put up with the psychological torture of having their car turn off and on every five seconds.)
Incentives are the taxpayer funded gateway drug/carrot/kickback to industry used to create compliance with things that aren’t mandated in order to increase profits (if kickbacks can be factored in to profit, which I think they are).
And, as always, taxpayers get the shaft for money not-well-spent.
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