[johnhaydcf]

Hi All!
I purchased my clarity PHEV touring July 2018. I have 4000 miles of trouble free ownership to date. Looking forward to learning more about the car as a result of this forum.

 

[greenmode]

Congrats on getting your Clarity.

Have you started looking into first modifications/accessories as yet?

 

[Lucid]

Welcome to the forum. Is this your first PHEV or have you upgraded from an older hybrid? Congratulations.

 

[fdunfey]

New Clarity Plug-in Touring Owner in Tucson

I just bought my Clarity at end of December, 2018. I have put on 850 miles so far. All of it using EV mode. Haven't used any gasreally. It did go into Hrbtid mode once when I ran out of Battery on about a 50 mile round trip. Maybe I used 1/4 gallon. No sure.

I am retired and expect to do mostly local in town quick trips.

Questions:

1) How often should I use gas in Hybrid mode to just exercise engine and use some gas? Should I put some gas additive in to preserve the gas from getting stale?

2) How can I tell how much electricity I use to charge the car each day? Someone mentioned some app can do it.

3) I do have extra solar power but in first month, we had cold, rainy weather and my solar output for real low.
Any one else using solar to power plugin? I noticed that 4 of my solar panels are consistently giving me hald the KWH output of the oother 12 panels. I suspect that there is soem shading impacting the solar panel electric genertion. I may try to have them moved.

Fred Dunfey:smile_big:

 

[dwheat17]

1) How often should I use gas in Hybrid mode to just exercise engine and use some gas?
*** I believe the on board computer will run the engine when it needs to. No need for you to do anything.

2) How can I tell how much electricity I use to charge the car each day?
*** My Level 2 charger does that. JuiceBox for me, a full charge is roughly 14.6 KWh

3) I do have extra solar power but in first month, we had cold, rainy weather and my solar output for real low.

 

[mowcowbell]

I just bought my Clarity at end of December, 2018. I have put on 850 miles so far. All of it using EV mode. Haven't used any gasreally. It did go into Hrbtid mode once when I ran out of Battery on about a 50 mile round trip. Maybe I used 1/4 gallon. No sure.

I am retired and expect to do mostly local in town quick trips.

Questions:

1) How often should I use gas in Hybrid mode to just exercise engine and use some gas? Should I put some gas additive in to preserve the gas from getting stale?

2) How can I tell how much electricity I use to charge the car each day? Someone mentioned some app can do it.

3) I do have extra solar power but in first month, we had cold, rainy weather and my solar output for real low.
Any one else using solar to power plugin? I noticed that 4 of my solar panels are consistently giving me hald the KWH output of the oother 12 panels. I suspect that there is soem shading impacting the solar panel electric genertion. I may try to have them moved.

Fred Dunfey:smile_big:

I think a wise thing to do would be to put only 100% gasoline in your tank. It's about .30 to .40 cents per gallon more than e10 in my area. You won't have any of the issues with ethanol sitting long-term.

 

[Miles777]

>>How can I tell how much electricity I use to charge the car each day? Someone mentioned some app can do it.

Since I only use the 110V charger, I bought one of these from Amazon and use the app to monitor electricity use, as well as to shut down the charging during peak pricing periods (3 PM - 8 PM weekdays).


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