Controlled Power Technologies has developed the first belt-driven Integrated Starter Generator (B-ISG) to use a conventional 12-volt vehicle electrical system with the high power output necessary to ...

Visteon Corporation has developed SpeedStart12, an integrated starter generator system for cars that offers up to 5% fuel savings and associated reductions in CO2 emissions. “SpeedStart12 is a ...

While it plans to launch 10 new electric cars by 2025, Mercedes-Benz is far from done trying to improve the efficiency of internal-combustion engines. The German luxury automaker is giving its lineup ...

Valeo’s belt-driven starter-alternator reversible system (StARS, so called “belt-driven integrated starter-generator” at Ford) will be featured on a research project micro hybrid Fiesta capable of ...

This application note will discuss the 42 V System with Starter Generator that shall be used to supply loads with high power consumption. It will also tackle the compact power section of this system ...

July 10, 2007 Mercedes-owned smart is set to become the first mainstream production vehicle with a full complement of alternative drive systems. It has begun touting four new versions of the smart ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has begun mass-producing the auto industry’s first crankshaft-mounted integrated starter-generator (ISG) ...

What is all the recent hype about belt hybrids? Is it going to shatter the world of hybrids? Not exactly. The belt system, Belt Alternator Starter (BAS) is the least a carmaker can do, and still claim ...

DETROIT—The old-fashioned fan belt is losing its grip. The familiar toothed rubber belt, a staple of car engines for nearly a century, is driving fewer mechanical components as electricity takes over ...