Maybe you've heard some ad or read a press release hinting at the Honda's less-than-impressed view of electric vehicles (EVs). If you have, the phrase "near-future technology" used in association with plug-in vehicles should be at least vaguely familiar.

Now, don't get the wrong idea. Honda is very pro-environmentally friendly car production. The Japanese automaker is, in fact, recognized as the country's Greenest Automaker by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS…