Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe called the decisions “a switch in the planned course,” while stressing the long-term shift toward electrification remained unchanged, just pushed back in time.

Last year, Honda announced it expected to move somewhere around 2 million EVs over the next two years. That projected figure now sits at around 700,000 to 750,000 units. According to Automotive News, hybrid sales could instead skyrocket to over 2 million during the same time frame.

At the company’s annual business briefing in Tokyo on May 20, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe revealed plans to erase nearly 30% of its original multi-trillion-Yen investments, dialing down its EV and software research and development budget from ten trillion yen (~$68.97 billion) to seven trillion yen (~$48.28 billion).