Heading to Mammoth Mountain from the Bay Area

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ClarityBill said:
I can understand HV charge to 80% to leave room for engine braking... (20% remaining - 6-10 EV miles): The remaining gap seems too big to be just keeping regen available.

Another thread on this forum has some graphs of battery discharge and recharge capacities that show more balanced operation at 50% SOC. They also show the dramatic affect of cold temperatures. My experience with gear mode would agree with balanced operation at mid-level charges, and cold weather impact on the battery.

Seems like you and I have different understandings of the operation of the Clarity.
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You have much more experience than I do when it comes to HV operation--I don't dispute your theory. It's just that the Clarity seems to behave differently for different drivers and Honda won't explain what's going on, so alternative theories also seem viable. I like to speculate that the Clarity PHEV is like a high-level chess program--even its programmers are surprised at some of the inexplicable decisions it makes. Repeatable results are difficult to come by.
 
I have been reading all winter about how going downhill and using regen first thing sets the ICE going. When I leave my house, it is downhill all the way for about 2/3 of a mile and the ICE has rarely turned on. After all the discussion, this has had me puzzled me. Mainly, I have not had the heat on because usually I am not going very far. Sometimes I have had the seat heater on. The ICEman cometh not.

I wondered if its because I don't time my charging. When I get home I plug it in on the OEM 120v charger. It is usually finished charging long before I need to use it again. I wondered if it looses just enough charge, as it sits around, to avoid the need to turn on the ICE when regen is applied.
 
MPower said:
I have been reading all winter about how going downhill and using regen first thing sets the ICE going. When I leave my house, it is downhill all the way for about 2/3 of a mile and the ICE has rarely turned on. After all the discussion, this has had me puzzled me. Mainly, I have not had the heat on because usually I am not going very far. Sometimes I have had the seat heater on. The ICEman cometh not.

I wondered if its because I don't time my charging. When I get home I plug it in on the OEM 120v charger. It is usually finished charging long before I need to use it again. I wondered if it looses just enough charge, as it sits around, to avoid the need to turn on the ICE when regen is applied.
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Use the pedals to regen, that is more likely to trigger the ICE. If you hit the brake, then you can avoid the ICE.
 
thecompdude said:
Use the pedals to regen, that is more likely to trigger the ICE. If you hit the brake, then you can avoid the ICE.
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Pedal, paddle--both create regen power that the Clarity has to dissipate if the battery is fully charged. Some say the pedal regens more power than the paddle.
 
thecompdude said:
True, but this is for the situation when the battery is full.
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I didn't revise my response fast enough to include that before your reply. The Clarity PHEV doesn't need to dissipate the regen power unless the battery is fully charged.
 
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