{"id":21,"date":"2007-09-06T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/21"},"modified":"2007-09-06T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:01:36","slug":"a-look-at-the-fast-growing-trend-for-stop-start-technology-on-new-vehicles-how-long-until-its-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/21","title":{"rendered":"More Stop-Start Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/20\">last post<\/a> I discussed how environmentally-friendly stop-start systems were likely to become the norm on most vehicles over the next decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>It seems I was right! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Carmagazine.co.uk<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/first_drive.php?sid=996&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">review of the new Stop-Start equipped Mini<\/a> Cooper S &#8211; and confirms that BMW are rolling it out across their range.  With modern engines, better lubricants and beefed-up starter motors and alternators, more frequent stopping and starting is no longer a problem for today&#8217;s vehicles &#8211; and idling is simply a waste.<\/p>\n<p>All the vehicle electrics contiune working when the engine cuts out &#8211; including air-con and stereo &#8211; so you won&#8217;t notice the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Vans, with their larger-capacity, fuel-hungry engines are an obvious target for this technology. How long before it&#8217;s standard on all new vans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I discussed how environmentally-friendly stop-start systems were likely to become the norm on most vehicles over the next decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>It seems I was right! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}