Technology "start-stop" is a system that automatically turn off the engine at idle. Simply put, when the vehicle stops, so does the engine. At the foot off the brake pedal, or stepped on the gas pedal, the engine back to life.
This technology was launched in Europe in 2007 as the entry into force of carbon reduction legislation.
"Start-stop" producing fuel savings of 5-12 percent - and when combined with other technologies that save fuel, the savings could reach 18 percent, the company said Johnson Controls.
The company sold 3 million battery technology "start-stop" in Europe every year. Pike Research Institute estimates that the market research vehicle engine tech "start-stop" could reach 35 million by 2015.
"Start-stop" is not as good as hybrid and electric cars in a matter of saving energy, but the technology is much cheaper and can be mounted on a conventional gasoline engine. Price termurahnya, according to Gartner analyst John Pike Research, is 300 U.S. dollars for a car manufacturer.
"It's not hard to apply to ordinary vehicles, even easier than implementing bio-fuel bio-fuel because it requires infrastructure," wrote Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech.
Johnson Controls plans to invest 420 million dollars for the technology until 2015. Technology "start-stop" is more developed in Europe than the U.S. because the country Uncle Sam is not a lot of carbon reduction legislation.
There are two dozen models of "start-stop" in Europe while the U.S. sold just three models. Two years into the future, 2013, an estimated 6.8 million units of "start-stop" which sold in the U.S., according to Johnson Control.
