# Service bulletin A18\-097

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10154940
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-03\-19
- Manufacturer's number: A18\-097
- Manufacturer's date: 2019\-03\-12
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY

## NHTSA's summary

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.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154940-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154940-9999.pdf)

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## Components

Electrical system, 12\-volt battery

## Vehicles listed

- 2017 to 2018 HONDA CLARITY ELECTRIC
- 2018 HONDA CLARITY PLUG\-IN HYBRID

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [A18\-097](/bulletins/10145390.md), 2018-10-15, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY. 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. The battery charger software does not start charging or may stop before charging is complete in areas with poor or fluctuating power quality.
- [ATS171002](/bulletins/10119590.md), 2017-10-21, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY. 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 battery, you could wind up running out of charge.
- [A17100D](/bulletins/10119584.md), 2017-10-21, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY. 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 under warranty.

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