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Fully electric vehicles will see a faster transition and more investment than hybrids, GM's chief sustainability officer says

Fully electric vehicles will see a faster transition than hybrids, a General Motors executive said during a panel with Business Insider.

"I think we'll see a faster transition to pure EV's," GM chief sustainability officer Dane Parker said.Do you work at GM? Business Insider wants to hear from you. Contact the author of this report at ijibilian@businessinsider.com from a non-work email, or via secure messaging app Signal at 917-727-6830.

Hybrids are more complex to engineer, Parker said, since they have to incorporate both battery-electric technology and a combustion engine. Those complexities, coupled with the advent of better batteries, will drive investments into "pure" battery electric vehicles, he said. Previous moves by GM certainly suggest a preference for going all-electric. The automaker announced it would discontinue its Volt hybrid in 2018 andIn his panel with Business Insider, Parker said that the automaker could sell a million electric vehicles in major markets globally by 2025. Last week, GM released a Hummer electric vehicle. Reservations for the vehicle sold out in 10 minutes,

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