I am amazed by consistent Honda management shortsightedness!
They cannot make a good mass market hybrid for 12 years!

Honda Accord is a sedan with battery pack that is mounted vertically in the trunk against the rear seat back. Again trunk-salon access is blocked! By this Honda cuts its Plug-in potential sales in half !!!

Toyota Camry Hybrid sedan August sales are 3,840 but they are almost doubled by addition of a wagon in same vehicle size class: Prius V: 3,325.
Ford gets it too: Ford introduces Ford Fusion Energi Plug-in sedan but at the same time Ford introduces a wagon/hatchback in the same class: Ford C-MAX Enregi Plug-in.

Should we wait another 12 years until Honda gets it?
They can be out of business by that time. It is a pity - they make great ICE cars :(

Parody press release from the not-so-distant future:

The race is on! Honda has recently duplicated, electrically, mile per mile, Toyota's 15 mile accomplishment. But, as we speak, engineers are hard at work to give us the 12 or 10 electric-only-mile EV. Now that the purely electric battery-only EV has been perfected, the auto industry is focusing their energies on the next great technological hurdle: an exclusively liquid-fuel-only automobile.

"We're confident it can be done within the next few years" says independent analyst Royston Miller. " The battery will eventually be dispensed with entirely in the modern range extender vehicle and consumers, someday soon, will not have to worry again about messy extension cords and the inconvenience of charging while sleeping." Instead of plugging-in at home and sometimes forgetting, all charging can take place - via liquid - at conveniently located neighborhood stations. "Many of these are open 24 hours daily and offer nutritious, microwaveable ready-to-eat food at competitive prices."

Isabelle Rowlings of the Peak Institute adds "Our research has shown that owners of traditional battery-only vehicles were suffering from various forms of social withdrawal. So-called range anxiety was only part of it. The human interaction involved with vehicle charging at home was being been lost with these all-electric people. It came down to the fact that they simply needed to get out of the house more often."

The new liquid-only-fuel range extender cars will bring today's motorist back, nostalgically speaking, to the days of automobiles our parents and grandparents knew. "There are many similarities, actually," Miller interjects, "once that pesky battery is completely gone in the current range extender vehicle, it will be like the good old days all over again."

I bet Honda will do all it can so its Accord has more range than the Prius plug-in.

@ Benjamin Nead, I made an extra version for the fun:

Man, an exclusively liquid-fuel-only automobile, that’s a hard one. I guess the engine would have to be so large that the weight of it would only allow the car to move at slow speed. And such a huge gas tank wouldn’t fit in the car. It would also leak and be a permanent explosion danger. I don’t say it can’t be done but I don’t see the thing on our road before 2030 at best.
In the mean time other researchers have been working on the next best technology, insiders call it the steam machine but wouldn’t accept to give more details about it but to say it could be working on solid fuel. I guess we won’t see it in our lifetime.