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Does the Clarity PHEV have an equivalent to the Volt's Fuel Maintenance Mode?
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Volt, it switches to a classic hybrid when the average age of the gas in the tank reaches 360-370 days and will literally burn the tank dry (I know, my Volt ran out of gas about a quarter mile before my preferred gas station) and then keep driving on battery.
My question is has anyone hit something similar in the Clarity PHEV? After 13 months of a full tank of gas I started putting my wife's Clarity into sport mode and did everything I could to burn gas. After two weeks of this I managed to burn half a tank in my daily commute so I refilled the tank at this point. My dealership, where we bought the car knows less about the car than I do, trying to tell me it's like any other hybrid and the gas shouldn't last that long in the tank because the car will use it in normal driving.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Volt, it switches to a classic hybrid when the average age of the gas in the tank reaches 360-370 days and will literally burn the tank dry (I know, my Volt ran out of gas about a quarter mile before my preferred gas station) and then keep driving on battery.
My question is has anyone hit something similar in the Clarity PHEV? After 13 months of a full tank of gas I started putting my wife's Clarity into sport mode and did everything I could to burn gas. After two weeks of this I managed to burn half a tank in my daily commute so I refilled the tank at this point. My dealership, where we bought the car knows less about the car than I do, trying to tell me it's like any other hybrid and the gas shouldn't last that long in the tank because the car will use it in normal driving.