I am curious about your personal experience with the Clarity. For example miles and operational scenario. For example, is this a daily commuter or used for special trips.
My motivation for coming to Insideevs was to find information that improves usage of our plug-in hybrids. Not you but others have attempted to hijack this forum away from plug-in and plug-in hybrids. Consider a diesel advocate posting here, well that might be 'farting in Church.' <grins>
Plans are good, accomplishments better.
I would probably add Yosemite.
Were the maps I generated before about fuel cell ranges around hydrogen stations applicable to your ride?
Thanks,
Bob Wilson
Bob, it's all documented in the thread I created. Honda->Clarity->Clarity Fuel Cell. That was the main idea for me to create it. Read from the beginning though. Today my energy info shows 71.4 miles/kg.
Your maps are interesting. But I'll likely never go near the boundaries. One flaw in your map is, of course, that it measures aerial distance, but that probably compensates for using Mirai's range instead of Clarity's higher range. But it clearly shows that most part of California is well covered by stations now.
Just a year ago, situation in SF Bay Area wasn't very easy.
I mostly use it for commuting (40 miles RT) and then my wife uses it 5 times a week to pick my daughter. (13 miles RT). Then, about 2 times a month, I make a 140 mile RT trips. Occasionally, a trip to Sacramento. The loner trips weren't possible in my Spark EV. The Spark started off nicely with 105 mile range when new, but has since dropped to 75 miles in summer and 70miles in winter. After I made one RT to work, it was time to recharge, which I did at work mostly.
But it got little tiring making two trips to office charging station everyday to charge the car. I had a daily alarm set in my outlook for 4 years to charge the car
Once my daughter starts her new school 10 miles away, I will be driving more than 2k miles/month by the Clarity. It does drive much nicer compared to my other non-premium cars. I was thinking of a midsize or large luxury sedan, but with the horrendous mpg they have, I decided I'll give the Fuel cell cars a try.
Most drivers like the driving experience of FCEVs. Here is one new Clarity FC driver.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/...hydrogen-cars-now-the-refilling-stations.html
The daily commute is a real grind for most people, but not for Heather McLaughlin.
In February, Ms. McLaughlin leased a 2017 Honda Clarity FC, a sedan powered by hydrogen fuel cells and available only in California. And it has transformed her daily 20-mile commute near San Francisco.
With no pistons or spark plugs, the car is serenely quiet. Its electric motor provides a peppy ride. And wherever Ms. McLaughlin goes, the only thing that comes out of the tailpipe is a bit of water vapor. There are no pollutants, no greenhouse gases.
BTW, I've got nothing against PHEV, or even EVs. But they all have some hidden environmental footprints, just like H2.
From a consumer point of view, H2/PHEV/HEV are definitely easier to adopt.
I think simple hybrids are the best. If everyone will be driving efficient hybrids, the world vehicular CO2 emissions would be halved.