Honda is a company built around manufacturing internal combustion engines. Anything that uses an internal combustion engine is fair game: lawnmowers, motorcycles, ATVs, generators, and regular old cars.

So it’s been hard for them to shift their culture to where they don’t actually use the thing they’re best at, the foundation for their company’s whole history.

See also BYD that eventually got into making cars simply because they were so good at making batteries.