In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:
I now have a stop-start car. For normal starts it uses the pinion-based
starter, once warmed up sufficiently that stop-start comes into
operation, it uses the alternator to re-start through the belt.

Interesting. One design I saw used an alternator built into the flywheel
or whatever. So no drive mechanism needed.

I'm rather surprised the drive belt is up to starting an engine.

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