The Clarity OEM tires are not "run-flats".
Please do a forum search on "tires". There are several threads already addressing your questions.
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I did a couple of short drives this weekend (5-6 miles each trip) in hybrid mode and only within the city. I drive conservatively and will usually be at the speed limit (30 MPH) or not more than 5 miles over. Temperature was around 45-50 degrees. I've had my car for about a month and drive in EV-only for about 90% of the time.
I've also driven an Accord Hybrid (2020) and would get around 50 MPG.
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I've also driven an Accord Hybrid (2020) and would get around 50 MPG.
Those short drives shown on the screen actually were in hybrid-only mode. I forgot I had errands to run on Saturday and had originally planned to recharge on Sunday. I still had some battery left when I began the first of four drives on Saturday. The first trip was in pure EV and I drove with a friend to my work to pick up something. Halfway through the second trip, while I was taking my friend home, I ran out of battery and the car switched to hybrid mode. The last two trips were hybrid-only and are what were represented on the screen.
When I drove on the highway two or three weeks ago, I averaged in the low 40s MPG on that trip. I haven't driven enough in hybrid mode for me to be confident in saying what fuel economy numbers I can get on a regular basis, but the numbers were what the car gave me and the vehicle was in hybrid mode w/ 2 bars battery.
I also took a picture of my instrument cluster when I was leaving my friend's house. You can see the battery level and the available range is estimated at 274 miles. In my previous post with the first photo, the range remaining is 267 miles, 7 miles difference. I used Apple Maps to see the actual distance I traveled which was 5.9 miles for trip 3 and 5.0 miles for trip 4.
That said, I think the large battery on the Clarity will goose the hybrid fuel economy quite a bit since the electricity isn't added to the calculations and the car assumes it is "free" gas. Probably if I had driven much farther (say 40 or 50 miles) then the hybrid numbers would have been lower and more realistic. I recall trying out hybrid mode while I still had half a battery left, and by the end of my trip, the battery level had dropped one bar even though I assumed the battery level would have remained unchanged. But since a bar was used, I'm sure it added to my hybrid MPG numbers that time. I'm also assuming that if I had driven a long distance with only 2 bars of electricity left, the car would have worked the gas engine harder to maintain the 2 bars?
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