26/11/2020
We have come a long way since the days when you had to turn your engine off at a red light in order to save fuel. Deactivation and activation have since become automatic, and both the noise of the first ignition and the starting time have been drastically reduced, so you don’t even notice the engine stopping and starting again. In this article, we want to give you a brief history of those innovations that have been key to the start-stop engine as we know it today. We will focus on the Belt-Driven Starter Generator (BSG), the sidewinder tensioner and our specially designed Micro-V® E-Start™ belt.
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