Clarity

Honda’s Clarity nameplate was introduced in the mid-2010s as a family of electrified sedans built around the company’s hydrogen and electrification strategy. The first production version to reach customers was the Clarity Fuel Cell, which went on sale in Japan in March 2016 and later arrived in the U.S. and Europe that same year. Honda then expanded the series in 2017 with the Clarity Electric and Clarity Plug-In Hybrid, creating a three-variant lineup that let the nameplate cover fuel cell, battery-electric, and plug-in hybrid powertrains under one design and packaging concept. In Japan, the Clarity Plug-In Hybrid joined the range in 2018. The series was positioned as a technology showcase rather than a mainstream volume sedan, and it became one of Honda’s most visible efforts to promote alternative-powertrain vehicles in the late 2010s. The Clarity family remained on sale through the 2021 model year before production of the Clarity Fuel Cell and Clarity Plug-In Hybrid ended in 2021, closing the line after the Clarity Electric had already been dropped earlier. Although Honda had previously used the Clarity name in the FCX Clarity fuel-cell model of the late 2000s, the modern Clarity series was a distinct, later-era nameplate built around Honda’s 2016 electrified vehicle push.