Buick's LaCrosse
General Motors Co. is installing a relatively inexpensive start/stop system to give the 2012 Buick LaCrosse a 25 percent boost in fuel economy. The technology, now dubbed eAssist, is modular and likely will spread across a range of GM vehicles. "From a business standpoint," said Steve Poulos, eAssist global chief engineer, "there is an opportunity to bring this kind of light electrification and regenerative braking to the vast majority of our vehicles." Poulos said eAssist is similar in principle to the belt-alternator starter start/stop system first used on the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line.
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