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Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid problems by year
- 135complaints
- 1recall campaigns
- 1model years with a page
Newest report Sep 28, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
Pick your model year
Owner complaints on file for each year.
Complaints for each year on the road
Each model year's NHTSA complaints divided by the calendar years it has been on sale, counting this one (a 2018 model has had 9). Older cars have had longer to collect complaints, so raw totals flatter the new ones. Blue bars are the years to avoid.
Within one model, sales change less from year to year than they do between models, so a jump here is mostly a jump in problems. The call: the years to avoid are the (up to three) highest at 1.5 times the model's median rate or more, and the best are the (up to three) lowest at two thirds of it or less, from 2016 on.
Guide How much should a years-to-avoid list decide? What these lists get wrong
At a glance
- Where the complaints sit
- The 2018 has the most complaints of any Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid year here: 135 of 135 (100%).
- Problem across the years
- A/C failure is the top problem in every model year with a page, 14 reports in all.
- Crash, fire and injury reports
- 7% of Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid complaints report a crash, a fire or an injury, against 6% for the typical vehicle on this site.
- When owners filed
- Filings peaked in 2024 at 39 (full calendar years only). In 2025 there were 5. So far in 2026, 12 more have come in.
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Model years with too few complaints for a page of their own: 2019 (42).
Year by year
2018 Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid
135 owner complaints, 15 for each year on the road (1.5 times the model median). Most reported: A/C failure (14 reports), stalling (12 reports) and hybrid system (12 reports, median 4,418 miles). 9 reports involved a crash and 3 people were hurt. 1 recall: 23V-858 on the fuel system.
Questions
What is the most common problem on the Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid?
A/c failure, with 14 reports across the 1 model years that have a page here. It's the single most reported problem on the 2018.
How many recalls does the Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid have?
1 recall campaign cover the Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid model years 2018 on this site.
How many Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid complaints involve a crash, fire or injury?
7% of them, against 6% for the typical vehicle on this site.