Road Trip

[SR-71]

"Gassed up for the first time in a month for my first big Clarity road trip (800 miles round trip) for daughter's graduation. It looks like I won't need to gas up again until I get back with my 950+ miles current range."

950+ mile range? Ok, I'm confused. Doesn't Honda's TV ad boast 340 miles combined mileage? Every time I see that Honda TV ad I think about the Prius Prime's 640 combined mileage.

 

[Rajiv Vaidyanathan]

950+ mile range? Ok, I'm confused. Doesn't Honda's TV ad boast 340 miles combined mileage? Every time I see that Honda TV ad I think about the Prius Prime's 640 combined mileage.

I think he meant that as a joke. There are numerous posts here about the incredibly ridiculous and meaningless HV range that the Clarity reports.

 

[JyChevyVolt]

What happens with the Clarity when you have a full charge and run out of gas?

 

[Timothy]

I think he meant that as a joke. There are numerous posts here about the incredibly ridiculous and meaningless HV range that the Clarity reports.

Yes, a joke. The very very inaccurate HV range is so often bemoaned here that I forgot I might be giving bad info to someone newer to the forum. Sorry.

 

[AlanSqB]

What happens with the Clarity when you have a full charge and run out of gas?

I almost did that this week by accident. I have run several ICE cars out of gas over my years of driving without worry. However, everything I've heard about hybrids is that running them out of gas is a big deal. I'd honestly give it a try if I wasn't worried about doing damage. I have no problem suffering personally for "science" but I can't hurt my favorite car.

 

[AlanSqB]

Just back from our first long road trip. NC to Philadelphia (about 800 miles overall). At the risk of sounding too much like a clarity fanboy, I'll now say it's the best long distance car I have ever owned. [before this almost all of our miles had been EV]

I'll re-share two pieces of advice for others taking long trips. When on long stretches of highway using the ACC also use Sport Mode. It makes getting up to speed after the space in front of you clears a more normal process. When using the ACC in stop and go traffic (e.g., outside of DC) use the resume button to start again after the Clarity has come to a full stop (and stay in Sport Mode so you don't always leave a huge gap when traffic moves). This worked really well and made stop and go less stressful. Only a couple of times did folks take advantage of my car keeping a safe distance to cut me off. This was much more relaxing that my normal method of fighting to keep my spot.

I also have one question, do you all know how accurate the mpg on the Trip Computer is? During long stretches of all HV "trips" it gave an MPG of over 50mpg. Could that be real?

Thanks for this information. I'm going to be driving my Clarity out to Tacoma, WA from Colorado in a few weeks. I was originally supposed to be towing it behind a moving truck and I have to admit I was rather disappointed I wouldn't get to do the road trip with it. Now, circumstances dictate that my stuff will follow me out by a month so no moving truck and I get to drive my car! Can't wait.