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Bosch introduces new start-stop system

At the Geneva Motor Show this week a number of car-makers, including BMW, Daihatsu, Lotus and others, either showed or talked about cars equipped with start-stop systems to help improve fuel economy and emissions. Basically, the idea of start-stop is give some of the benefit of a hybrid at minimal cost, by shutting off the internal combustion engine whenever the vehicle comes to a stop, and then re-starting as soon as the brake is released. The manufacturers of the systems that were displayed were Valeo and Bosch. The Bosch system goes into ... Read more →

BMW will use the Bosch start-stop system on updated 1-series Sam Abuelsamid

Bosch introduces new start-stop system 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

BMW will use the Bosch start-stop system on updated 1-series 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Starting this month Robert Bosch GmbH will begin supplying a new start-stop system to BMW for installation on the updated 1-series. BMW will be selling a variety of efficiency enhancing technologies under the brand EfficientDynamics, that will be standard on the 1-series and include the start-stop ...

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