2018 Honda Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid problems
The 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid has 212 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (18%) concerns fuel system. Next are engine (12%) and electrical system (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 212 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Fuel system 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 17 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 9 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 3,000 miles 97 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 91 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 1 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 3 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 2 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 97 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 3,000 miles. For fuel system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 10,000 miles (13 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 17 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 9 injuries reported.
It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl* the contact owned a 2018 honda clarity plug-in hybrid. While driving 30 MPH and making a right turn into a parking lot, the vehicle accelerated independently without warning. The steering wheel seized and the contact crashed into a store. The front driver and passenger air bags failed to deploy. The contact sustained shoulder and collarbone injuries that required medical attention. The front passenger did not sustain injuries. A police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to a tow lot.
I filled the seven gallon gas tank yesterday, and the dashboard range display calculated the range of the car on gas power as 871 miles. I have been driven mostly on electric battery power, but with only seven gallons of gas in the tank, that range is absurd. New drivers of the vehicles might believe the range and inadvertently strand themselves somewhere.
At the time of the occurrence the vehicle had been owned for approximately 90 days and had approximately 2500 miles on the odometer. When initially started in a stationary poistion the information display provided multiple apparently spurious alarms and warnings. These warnings continued when the vehicle was in motion. Turning the vehicler off and restarting the vehiclewould not clear the warnings.
Other model years of the Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018