2018 Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid Touring Modern Steel Metallic
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Hello, fellow Clarity owners! My name is Maurice, and this is my first Clarity post. I have experience with sites such as M35forum.com and headfi.org, and it was fun posting about DYI projects on the M35, and posting audio reviews on headfi.org. I purchased/leased the 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-in hybrid Touring new, and was happy to not only use a car with over 45 miles of EV-only range, but also use a car with over 300 miles of HV (gas range) as well!
Fast forward two and a half years, and not only does my battery usually get about 35-40 EV range (not too worried about that as I can check the EV battery capacity in the near future), but much more concerning to me is a possible degradation of the HV range. I used to get a HV range of about 310 miles (should have probably been more than that!) to as low as 199 miles as of last night is disconcerting, in my opinion. My possible reasons for the degradation could be that since I have not been charging the car with my usual means of the combination of public and home Juicebox chargers, and using the HV charge mode to charge the car as a replacement of charging with the traditional chargers - mainly since I have been in the middle of a move to a new house for over a month. I am not sure if these are the reasons why my HV range has decreased dramatically. I took the Clarity in for service about a year ago when the HV range was showing too high - their software update fixed the issue. Then I had issues about the HV range being too low (about 211 HV range). After taking it in, the dealer performed a complete reset of the system, and that fixed the range issue. For about one gas tank refill. Once I went back to using the car's HV charge mode to charge the car, the HV's range went lower and lower, to the lowest 199 HV range from a filled gas tank last night.
Does anyone have a reason or reasons why the HV range would show so low, and what fix there can be (besides completely resetting the system after every fill up)?
Thanks for your assistance in advance!
225 HV before "full reset"
199 HV after "full reset" and one gas tank full
Fast forward two and a half years, and not only does my battery usually get about 35-40 EV range (not too worried about that as I can check the EV battery capacity in the near future), but much more concerning to me is a possible degradation of the HV range. I used to get a HV range of about 310 miles (should have probably been more than that!) to as low as 199 miles as of last night is disconcerting, in my opinion. My possible reasons for the degradation could be that since I have not been charging the car with my usual means of the combination of public and home Juicebox chargers, and using the HV charge mode to charge the car as a replacement of charging with the traditional chargers - mainly since I have been in the middle of a move to a new house for over a month. I am not sure if these are the reasons why my HV range has decreased dramatically. I took the Clarity in for service about a year ago when the HV range was showing too high - their software update fixed the issue. Then I had issues about the HV range being too low (about 211 HV range). After taking it in, the dealer performed a complete reset of the system, and that fixed the range issue. For about one gas tank refill. Once I went back to using the car's HV charge mode to charge the car, the HV's range went lower and lower, to the lowest 199 HV range from a filled gas tank last night.
Does anyone have a reason or reasons why the HV range would show so low, and what fix there can be (besides completely resetting the system after every fill up)?
Thanks for your assistance in advance!
225 HV before "full reset"
199 HV after "full reset" and one gas tank full