John Voelcker

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RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: 'Stop-start' systems

25 October 2011

In this extract from just-auto's QUBE research on electric vehicle technologies, we take a quick look at so-called stop-start systems. Do you know, for example, that Mazda's solution does not involve the starter motor or that stop-start has been a non-starter in North America?

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John Voelcker

Articles by John Voelcker

RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: 'Stop-start' systems

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