[ddeck]

Not sure about the US, but the Japanese didn't stop focusing on hybrid development. More than half of all sales in Japan are hybrids, whereas electric is only a few percent [1].

Honda even recently announced that they're scaling back on electric to focus on hybrids:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/japans...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-19/hybrid-ca...

[matthewdgreen]

Yes but Honda seems to be doing this because they can’t make batteries. BYD can, ever cheaper, and they’re expanding their plug-in offerings much faster than Honda is scaling them back. I’m worried for Japanese car makers.

[dalyons]

Yep. Hybrids are a dead end, they’ll be obsolete in a few short years