Start-Stop Efficiency For Vehicles
A little step on the horizon for improving the quality of the air we breath is an idea called “Start-Stop” technology. Aimed at vehicles which themselves are hungry guzzlers of energy this concept will be hitting new models of vehicles very soon.
What is Start-Stop
Often when your driving you have those regular stops at junctions or waiting for the traffic lights to turn green the engine in your care is still working and burning up that gas and a hole in your pocket. Start-Stop when implemented in vehicles will now detect this idling while your car is not moving and turn off your engine and when you want to proceeded with your journey it will detect a press on the accelerator and restart your engine. This is all done automatically without you having to go to the bother of turning the ignition.
So in a nutshell, your car engine will only run when it needs to run, This efficient usage could save between 3% and 5% of a cars fuel usage. This may seem small and while it is for a single vehicle when nit is spread over a city full of cars then 5% can add up to a lot of gas saved.
The advantages of start-stop.
That is 1 supertanker in 20 that is not carrying fuel across the oceans. While this may seem a long distant reason and it wont affect you. But in these modern times even the remotest things can have large knock on effect. Closer to home you will see a reduction in your fuel costs that is until the price goes up which it surely will. Hopefully the best benefit and long term effect will be on health. Not only will you be producing less harmful pollution but all those other cars will be too.
Car makers Hyundai and Kai have said they will start to offer the fuel saving start-stop technology in cars for the North American market in the next two years. While The Ford Motor Co. hope to offer similar technology in 20% of its models by 2014.
Around the world some countries have mulled the idea of legislating for this technology as standard for vehicles on their roads and highways. Sometimes a little legal push is needed to force technology adoption and ultimately it is a benefit. But this may be a short lived concept and be overtaken by pure electrical vehicles which by themselves produce practically no emissions and are ideally suited to efficient start stop operations.
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