Battery technology

[KentuckyKen]

When you completely deplete the EV range and then call on the system to provide additional power beyond what the engine can provide, it will further drain the battery. While 2 bars is supposedly "11%" per the app, I've seen it as low as 7 or 8 percent and I imagine it could theoretically drain lower than that if someone put it under heavy strain at 2 bars. I don't recall if it showed 1 bar at 7% but it may have.

@KentuckyKen you should try to take it into the hill country at 0 EV and see how low you can get the battery percentage to go.

@Steven B, that would be a great test and another good data point to have but I will have to plead cowardice. I’m just not brave enough to subject my Clarity to that kind of “abuse”. I think that under virtually all conditions other than the one you described, the BMS is set to keep that 10% buffer at the low end of the SOC.

 

[Pushmi-Pullyu]

Here is a poor layman’s attempt at Clarity Battery 101.

Sir, you vastly and most unfairly underrate both your knowledge of Clarity PHEV battery tech, and your ability to organize information and present it in a cognizant and coherent matter!

In my opinion, a link to this post should be added to this forum's Clarity PHEV FAQ.