Change in the top plug-in hybrids

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.

 

Naming them different would be like Toyota giving the Camry with I4, V6, and hybrid different names.

 

The same marketing expert that named the Hyundai Ioniq?

 

carb should use that chart to give credits based on efficiency.

 

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.
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Mine didn't get totaled, but had $7500 worth of damage.

#1 in Easley,SC

 

looks like a terminator outake

 

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.

 

That what I thought. Toyota Prius Prime Terminator! LOL

#1 in Easley,SC

 

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.

 

ouch! I think you can probably rub that out

Good that everyone's okay, I presume.
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Yes. No worries for anyone. Just plastic and sensors needed replacing.

#1 in Easley,SC

 

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.
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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

 

I do understand.

They did a great job on it. Looks just like my avatar.