Turning car off at stoplights

[macphanatic]

RAMd®d wrote:
I noticed it first time I came to Japan in the 80s.

It was common in the '70s as well.


As others have mentioned, this functionality was common outside the US many years ago.


I question how common, in how many different brands of ICEmobiles, and how many years ago.

A MUG memeber had one of the early Honda Insights and it did the Start/Stop thing.

I assumed most eVs and hybrids followed suit at some point.

But the ICE thing is new to me.

I've been doing some DuckDucking trying to find a list of ICEmobiles that do it.

Every rental car that I had in Europe over 5 years ago has had the auto/stop start. Many different brands.