Bouncing down the Honda Clarity: Compare Side-by-Side metric 2017 Prius Prime 2018 Ioniq Plug-in 2014 BMW i3-REx Chevy Volt Honda Clarity 1 kWh/100 mi 25 kWh 28 kWh 29 kWh 31 kWh 31 kWh 2 gal/100 mi 1.9 gal 1.9 gal 2.6 gal (prem.) 2.4 gal 2.4 gal 3 EV range 25 mi 29 mi 72 mi 53 mi 48 mi 4 total range 640 mi 630 mi 150 mi 420 mi 340 mi It is good to have choices. Bob Wilson
Thanks for that. I hadn't realized until now that the Honda Clarity was a PHEV. I wonder what marketing expert at Honda thought it would be good to name their EV, their Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle and their PHEV the Clarity. Sure isn't very clear to me.
That'll never happen. On a tangent, one of the 2 primes that plugin at the Disney employee lot seems to have an oopsie. Boy that sucks big time. Didn't even have his metal license plates. Only paper. Going back through the posts, I see one member actually had their Prime totaled. Considering that, this person I guess, got off easy. .
i saw one the other day, whole side smashed in from rear of hood tho trunk. guy must have been climbing in from the other side, no way that door worked.
I am willing to take a look at the Honda Clarity PHEV. While I think my Prius is a great car, I feel that the Honda Accord is a better car than the Toyota Camry. Therefore, the Clarity might be as good or better than the Prime. We drive our cars well under 10K miles a year, so whether it gets 50 or 40 mpg is insignificant compared to how comfortable it is, how the safety software works, and whether it is easier to drive than the Toyota. My wife is considering replacing her 2000 Lexus (with about 60K miles) with a new car with safety features like my Prius. I will suggest she drop by the Honda dealer.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (a/k/a IIHS) 2018 "Top Safety Pick" ratings are out. You can read the report on the Prius Prime here: 2018 Toyota Prius Prime Prius-Prime-crash-test by Old Bear posted Dec 10, 2017 at 12:40 AM Quoting from the report: "The driver space was maintained well, with maximum intrusion of the upper interior of 5 cm at the upper hinge pillar. Lower interior intrusion measured 4 cm at the brake and parking brake pedals. . . . Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity." As they say: Don't try this at home!
I didn't feel the impact nor did any air bags go off. Pretty much ripped the front right bumper off with the sensors (Advanced model). High technology and plastic costs money apparently. #1 in Easley,SC
Thanks for the link! Two things caught my eye as I perused the site. First, this page shows the Kia hybrid is extremely sucky when it comes to insurance payouts BIG TIME. Insurance loss information. The other data point that caught my eye was how insurance companies appear to rate cars by the million quantity on one page. Really? So you could have the greatest car in the world, but if they only sell 300,000, it doesn't make their chart? That seems extremely skewed. Their rationale is it takes a while to gather all the data, and huge quantities of four-door sedans helps arrive at their statistics. A more logical way to gather data might be - for example - every billion miles driven for the various four-door sedans. Maybe that's just me. .
Sorry to see/hear this and glad you're OK. Call me crazy, but as bad as the front end looks, the soft drink cup sitting on the hood made me cringe just as much.
Lol. At the time, the cup was the least of my worries. The car looks as good as new now though! #1 in Easley,SC
