japan has this problem as all of its automobile companies decided to invest down the path of hydrogen (as it fit their home country/interests better) over the rest of the worlds EVs. because of it, japanese fully EVs tend to be kind of lackluster, because theyre usually second thought.

The main issue from what I hear is that they realy though hybrid would be the perfect middle ground, hence why every vehicle they both had was hybrids.

And those should have been easy to move to fully EV when they saw that was the way forward, but apparently they didn’t see that, so kept on with the hybrids.

Who’s “they”? Cause other than Toyota, the rest of them didn’t even care about hybrids until very recently.

But yeah, Toyota really dropped the ball after being the defacto leader of hybrid tech for so long.

Honda has been selling Hybrids since atleast '99, when they came out with a hybrid right before Toyota came out with the Prius.

for a while they have had Hybrid version available for most of their car models.