1. You can change cars, but we struggle to get people to zipper merge or navigate a roundabout in KY, how are you going to improve people's driving habits to save fuel?
2. Scotty Kilmer is a hack, outdated, and clickbaits all day long. We'd all have '94 Celica's if it was up to him.
3. Where are the extra batteries? Are these electrical components costing significantly more than before especially compared to unrelated components on the same vehicle? Overall auto prices have tracked with inflation, it's wages that haven't kept up. I don't have answers there necessarily but the question is whether it's significant too, or just that repair costs have gone up across the board.
My big point is that stop/start is not a new feature and it isn't a significant negative among the rest of modern vehicle engineering.
Yes it's possible to implement poorly or have manufacturing defects. Yes I personally would not want it and would disable it.
But I believe implementation is more to blame than the inherent concept - especially with hybrids nailing stop/start technology without a lot of the concerns levied. Ford's Powershift and Nissan's JATCO CVT's don't mean all dry DCT's or pulley CVT's are necessarily crap respectively - as much as I dislike them personally. Hyundai/Kia's Theta II doesn't mean to avoid 4-cylinder GDI engines, although I would rather not have a Korean engine given the choice.
GDI engines have ranged from walnut-blasting every __k miles required to "haven't done anything!", additional driver assists are warranting more expensive batteries already so I don't think that makes a difference there. Some use the starter, some keep track of what cylinder to ignite, etc. Plenty of issues are already out there and stop/start IMHO doesn't rise to be head/shoulders the "big bad" in auto longevity that we should target.
2. Scotty Kilmer is a hack, outdated, and clickbaits all day long. We'd all have '94 Celica's if it was up to him.
3. Where are the extra batteries? Are these electrical components costing significantly more than before especially compared to unrelated components on the same vehicle? Overall auto prices have tracked with inflation, it's wages that haven't kept up. I don't have answers there necessarily but the question is whether it's significant too, or just that repair costs have gone up across the board.
My big point is that stop/start is not a new feature and it isn't a significant negative among the rest of modern vehicle engineering.
Yes it's possible to implement poorly or have manufacturing defects. Yes I personally would not want it and would disable it.
But I believe implementation is more to blame than the inherent concept - especially with hybrids nailing stop/start technology without a lot of the concerns levied. Ford's Powershift and Nissan's JATCO CVT's don't mean all dry DCT's or pulley CVT's are necessarily crap respectively - as much as I dislike them personally. Hyundai/Kia's Theta II doesn't mean to avoid 4-cylinder GDI engines, although I would rather not have a Korean engine given the choice.
GDI engines have ranged from walnut-blasting every __k miles required to "haven't done anything!", additional driver assists are warranting more expensive batteries already so I don't think that makes a difference there. Some use the starter, some keep track of what cylinder to ignite, etc. Plenty of issues are already out there and stop/start IMHO doesn't rise to be head/shoulders the "big bad" in auto longevity that we should target.