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Originally Posted by COLVERT
Thank you for your input.----Rotten idea isn't it.
The idea was, I guess, to invent something to lower emissions and aid drivers. However it's starting to cause problems and additional costs for the car owners. It seems they didn't do their market research enough or they would know better how the owners would use their cars.--Most are used for lots of daily starts and stops. Motorway use is much less likely.
As they say---'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'.---This pudding is starting to taste rotten.
Thalidomide seemed like a good idea at the time too.---Mistakes in design do get made. They are now trying , perhaps, to apply a patch to this problem.--If they don't it won't go away on its own.
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This is to protect the battery and help keep things running as they should.
Simple answer.---Fit a larger battery.
Crazy to have to design a system to protect the battery.
I've never seen any figures to say how much protection the atmosphere gets from this strange and poorly thought out idea. ( Including the pollution caused by having to produce more batteries because their life is cut in half and killing off the starter motors by the same amount. )
REf: my post on air liners. Lots of times they have excess fuel dumps over towns and villages. Plus what they burn. Start there with stopping air pollution.--Never; because the motorists are easy targets.--Always have been and always will be.---
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Fitting a larger battery isn’t going to make any difference if the battery is in a poor state of charge from lack of use. The battery is perfectly adequate, if it’s not low in charge.
Do you have any data to support your argument about stop start being pointless? Anything at all to suggest that congested traffic in town centres with rows of cars using stop start systems doesn’t help reduce CO2?
The motorist gets penalised, because many journeys made by motorists could be made better. You can’t get around the fact that a plane is needed to transport people and cargo around the world. We can help to reduce emissions when people are burning fuel sitting in a jam going for a pint of milk.
Every little helps.