Report: Upcoming Honda Clarity EV Will Only Have 80-Mile Range

Enjoy long road trips? You lot might desire to pass on the upcoming Honda Clarity, unless you feel like stopping every 80 miles for a change. Automotive News reports that the all-electric vehicle, slated to make its debut this spring, will have a range of just 80 miles. That's mode low compared to the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt, which has a 238-mile range, and but nigh every other EV out there, the study points out. Official pricing for the Clarity EV has non yet been announced, but the vehicle is expected to start effectually $35,000 before tax credits and incentives.

A longer-range battery would have made the car more than expensive and heavier. Honda is hoping that the price of the car is attractive enough to make upward for its curt range.

"A pillar of the Honda brand is affordability, and if Honda came out with some obscenely priced long-range electrical motorcar, what does that do for the make?" Steve Middle, vice president of environmental business development at American Honda Motor, told Automotive News. "Near of our customers would not exist able to learn information technology."

Instead, the visitor is targeting those who want a large, affordable EV — something bigger than the similarly priced Commodities — who aren't necessarily riddled with range anxiety. Honda says there'south demand for that. The company'south Fit EV had nearly the aforementioned range, and people didn't complain almost that so much every bit they did about its pocket-size size, the automaker told Automotive News.

"These people want a battery car and they know what they practise and where they go," Center told the news outlet of projected Clarity customers. "They're very rational and they don't need to lug around or accuse upward a 300-mile-range battery because that costs them electricity."

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Angela Moscaritolo

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