We all know that Honda is not totally sold with electric vehicles because Honda’s fuel of choice is hydrogen. Due to the slow development of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, Honda has decided to focus its short term efforts in developing pure electric vehicles.

In an interview with Reuters Honda’s President and CEO, Takanobu Ito said, “I don’t doubt for a second that [hydrogen] fuel cell vehicles are the ultimate green car.” Ito added, “But the infrastructure for hydrogen is moving slowly, and there’s a possibility we won’t be able to get sufficient sales volumes (in California), even if we tried.”

Ito was referring to legislation in California that will force automakers in the near future to begin selling a particular ratio of zero-emission cars. According to Ito, the infrastructure that Honda will use to run their hydrogen fuel cell vehicles does not exist, and the Japanese car maker does not see any indication that it will be put in the near future.