The Used Car Index

2017 Honda Clarity Electric problems

NHTSA lists 1 complaints for the 2017 Honda Clarity Electric, 0 of them mention a crash and 0 mention a fire. 0 complaints mention an injury, with 0 injuries and 0 deaths reported.

Data build 2026-10-10.

NHTSA lists this vehicle as HONDA CLARITY ELECTRIC.

At a glance

Complaints
1
With crash
0
With fire
0
With injury (complaints)
0
Injuries
0
Deaths
0
Recalls
0
Do not drive recalls
0
Park outside recalls
0
Recall potential units (maximum)
Unavailable
Investigations
1
Open investigations
0
Manufacturer communications
6

Complaints per 100k sold unavailable. No sales source is available for this record.

Where the complaints are

Top systems
SystemComplaintsShare of this vehicle's complaints
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM1100.0%
SERVICE BRAKES1100.0%
STEERING1100.0%
Top subsystems
SystemSubsystemComplaints

One complaint can name several systems, so shares can add to more than 100 percent.

Model-generated complaint tags

These labels are model-generated, not NHTSA data.

Failure modes
LabelCountShare of taggedMean confidence
electrical electronic1100.0%0.53
Severities
LabelCountShare of taggedMean confidence
moderate1100.0%0.73

Model: typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917; schema version: tag-v1. 1 tagged complaints of 1 complaints (100.0%).

Confidence is the model's own probability for the label it chose (0 to 1), not accuracy.

Model-generated labels on tagged complaints only. Model years 2013 and newer are tagged in full; 2012 in part (see tagged_share); earlier model years have no tags. NHTSA's own flags remain separate in the complaints block.

Recalls

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0 recalls.

Investigations

1 investigations; 0 open.

DP22005

Opened: 2023-01-27. Closed: 2023-08-07.

Pedestrian alert sounds

NHTSA received a petition on or about July 18, 2022, requesting that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the United States. The petition can be reviewed at NHTSA.gov under ODI Number 11486072. FMVSS 141 establishes performance requirements for pedestrian alert sounds for motor vehicles. The standard applies to hybrid and ele

Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.

Linked campaign numbers: 22V063000.

Manufacturer communications

6 manufacturer communications.

Communications by system
SystemCount
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM3
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING1
POWER TRAIN1
STEERING1
VISIBILITY1

10154940

Date: 2019-03-12. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.

Service Bulletin - The Clarity Plug-In Hybrid and Clarity Electric may not start charging when plugged in or may stop charging before the high-voltage lithium-ion battery is full.

10129422

Date: 2018-01-24. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING.

Tech line summary article - Some dealers have reported that when plugged into their Level II 240-volt charger, the vehicle won?t charge or it stops charging early. We?re aware of this issue and have it under investigation

10129421

Date: 2018-01-23. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: POWER TRAIN, VISIBILITY.

Tech Line summary article - We?re looking at an issue of the driver?s power mirror not working and/or working oddly. It?s been reported, for instance, that when adjusting the driver?s power mirror, the passenger?s power mirror may respond instead.

10119590

Date: 2017-10-13. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.

Tech line summary article - Before you take a newly arrived vehicle for its first drive, make sure you charge the high-voltage lithium-ion battery. The vehicle leaves the factory with its battery state of charge level at a minimum. If you take the vehicle out on the street without first charging the

10119584

Date: 2017-10-10. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.

Servicenews article - The high-voltage lithium-ion battery in the Clarity Electric has an 8-year or 100,000-mile warranty. But unlike all of our earlier vehicles with high-voltage batteries, this one doesn?t set a DTC when the battery pack capacity value has reached the level for battery replacement

10115757

Date: 2017-08-03. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: STEERING.

Service news article - To prevent damage during shipping, leather-wrapped steering wheels come with a protective plastic covering. The easiest way to remove it during PDI is to grab the covering with both hands near the top of the steering wheel and pull it toward you, like you see here. The coveri

Notes on this record

  • Complaints from the API and bulk file are merged and deduplicated by ODI number; the API alone misses records.
  • System and subsystem counts are numbers of distinct complaints, recalls or communications that name them. One record can name several systems, so shares across systems can add to more than 100 percent; a single share never exceeds 100 percent.
  • Recalls are counted once per campaign, investigations once per action and manufacturer communications once per NHTSA id, even when NHTSA lists several model names for the same record.
  • A sales denominator is a calendar-year proxy, not the population of vehicles still in use. Rates are copied from verified pipeline output.

Other names NHTSA uses

None listed.

Matched NHTSA models

Matched labels and complaints
NHTSA model labelComplaints
CLARITY ELECTRIC1

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