2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle speed control Problems

“State of driving condition: the car was set in cruise at 70 MPH in hv mode (not charge mode). Ev range was 30 mile remaining, approximately 70% of battery remaining. The Honda clarity phev spontaneous excessive revving the engine while cruising at a constant speed on flat highway road then the car dropped speed by itself without any car in front. Once I notice the car does not have power to regain to set cruising speed, I turned cruising off, switched the car from hv to EV then the engine stop doing high revving. …”

“My car was in motion while preparing to park in an outdoor parking space at work only going 5 MPH or less. I turned my car slightly to the right since the parking space is at an angle when my car accelerated unexpectedly and I crashed into a fence and electrical pole. My brakes did not work and the air bags did not deploy. If it were not for the electrical pole my car would of run into a home. My car is currently at a Honda dealership. The serviceman told me that no codes popped up when running a diagnostic test. They also took the car for a test drive and stated the car showed no issues. …”

“Vehicle was in a parking garage, when making a right turn at the top of a ramp traveling at about 5 MPH, the vehicle went into max acceleration. There was no braking effect when the brakes were applied. After a little over a hundred feet the vehicle crashed into 2 parked cars which were totaled also. The car had crash mitigation but it did not appear to activate. The airbags deployed so the driver had only minor injuries. Hopefully an analysis of the black box will enable Honda to fix this problem.”

“On approx 6 occasions, when EV power is used up, the car switches to ice mode with issues. When traveling up hill, it feels like the transmission is not engaging. The vehicle losses power, and does not accelerate. The ice revs extremely high without speed gain. Have also experienced a downhill situation with nearly full EV in EV mode. Vehicle feels like it disengages drivetrain. When pressing the accelerator, there was no response. One feels helpless when this occurs. Most of the time, the car had switches from EV to hv automatically, without issue. …”

“At the time of the occurrence the vehicle had been owned for approximately 90 days and had approximately 2500 miles on the odometer. When initially started in a stationary poistion the information display provided multiple apparently spurious alarms and warnings. These warnings continued when the vehicle was in motion. Turning the vehicler off and restarting the vehiclewould not clear the warnings. The display would cycle displaying *adaptive cruise control problem*,*lane departure mitigation system problem*, and *emmissions control system problem*. …”