2017 Honda Clarity vs 2016 Toyota Mirai - This is a fantasy comparison test, but not our usual kind. There is no exotic sheetmetal on display here, no towering horsepower or physics-defying handling. Certainly nobody daydreams about driving 300 miles without leaving Los Angeles.
But that’s exactly what we did to evaluate the Honda Clarity and Toyota Mirai, tracing a path between each of the area’s hydrogen stations to assess the reality of owning one of these fuel-cell-powered cars.
Yes, you read that correctly. No longer does hitching your wagon to the periodic table require leasing a carmaker’s science project with a promise to return it, whether or not you’re done driving it, at least not if you spend $58,385 for the Mirai. A federal tax credit expired at the end of last year, but a $5000 rebate from the state of California still reduces this amount.
Even so, goosed lease rates mean most of those traveling the hydrogen highway will remain tenants. Toyota will let you drive a Mirai for $349 a month for three years, including free hydrogen. A similar deal from Honda runs $369. Its second-generation Clarity—on sale since December 2016—is lease-only, with a nominal $59,365 MSRP.
The cars are available solely in California.
Certainly these kinds of numbers would make good financial sense for plenty of drivers, especially considering both the Clarity and Mirai are eligible for California’s white “clean air” HOV-lane stickers through January 1, 2019. Regardless, Toyota moved just 1034 Mirais in 2016, its first full year on the market, which is less than the number of Camrys it built per day last year.
For cars that portend a transportation revolution, these two have rather mundane aspirations. Aside from their powertrains, the engineering is primarily aimed at mimicking the experience of each company’s mass-market mid-size sedan, those hundreds of thousands of gasoline-burning Accords and Camrys that Americans buy every year.
And not the V-6 models, but the four-cylinders, as the Clarity and Mirai have similarly modest power specs, their electric motor/generators rated at 174 and 152 horsepower, respectively.
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