2019 Honda Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid problems
The 2019 Honda Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid has 67 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (18%) concerns fuel system. Next are engine (15%) and cruise control (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 67 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Fuel system 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 2 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 3 and 1
- Typical mileage
- 9,000 miles 34 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 | 22 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 9 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 1 |
| 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 34 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 9,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 2 complaints mention a crash; 3 injuries reported; 1 death reported.
It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
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.
I was rear ended on the freeway that l caused my car to hit a guard rail, head on. I remember getting rear ended and then blacked out on hitting the guard rail. I then had chest pain. My driver's side airbags deployed with the driver's side front foot area airbags deploying. The airbags on the steering wheel did not deploy. There's a dash cam footage of this below that shows my car hitting head on with the guard rail at 31mph. [XXX]
Monday sep 7, 2020 around 11:20 am unintended acceleration my wife was driving the car and in process to park in our house garage. When she got on the drive way, she pressed the brake and stopped in front of the garage door to open it. Then released the brake and the car move forward slowly, without press the accelerator pedal. With her foot still over the brake pedal, she then gently press the brake pedal in order to stop, then the car immediately start to accelerate and hit the garage wall then stop.
The car drives fine when there is sufficient battery. When battery level drops to low (2 bars) the car does not respond to accelerator. The engine becomes sluggish and revs up quite a bit. I have driven ~650 miles so far and this has happened 4 times already. Luckily it happened only once in the highway where this would have been dangerous and life threatening.
On a random basis our new clarity suddenly loses power and sounds like we have shifted into neutral even though we are just continuing in drive mode. This has happened several times a month since we bought the car in june 2019. We have had the car tested at the dealership where we bought the car and they could not replicate the problem.
Other model years of the Clarity Plug-IN Hybrid
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018