I’ve brought up the subject of idling cars a few times before on this blog. Ford says letting your car idle and warm up reduces emissions, while a county in England wants to make it illegal to leave a car idling (except in certain cases). It is a case for contention among environmentalists and automakers, though for sure idling in bumper-to-bumper traffic does nobody any good. Which makes one wonder why we don’t have more instances of stop-start engine technology here in the U.S.
Turns out we might have it fairly soon. Mazda is pledging to bring its stop-start anti-idling technology to all of its cars by 2015… despite EPA regulations that discourage such technology. Aren’t they supposed to be on our side?