Honda seems like a very conservative company. It's released a couple of low volume "production" cars as it's dipped its toes into electric cars as well. The H

Honda seems like a very conservative company. It's released a couple of low volume "production" cars as it's dipped its toes into electric cars as well. The Honda Fit EV was a real production car, available to the general public (and I did see a couple of them on the roads in the US). But it was only available to lease, and Honda only leased about 1000 of them IIRC. Seems like a hedge - it gets them some experience with running an electric vehicle program, and data on how their vehicles do in the wild, but in a limited enough number that there won't be any serious harm to their reputation if the vehicles are deficient in some way. So where Tesla might want to put this sort of tech into the hands of as many customers as possible, as soon as possible, Honda is being Honda and entering the water very slowly.