The first dedicated, battery electric vehicle from Cadillac will go on sale for the 2022 calendar year, GM Authority’s sister site, Cadillac Society, exclusively reported this week.
While the debut of the first true Cadillac EV is still a couple years out, it will be followed shortly after by a slew of other battery electric offerings from the brand.
As was reported this past week, GM is placing emphasis on battery electric offerings going forward, believing that plug-in hybrids are an unnecessary stop-gap between ICE and EV.
The automaker first showed its vision for Cadillac’s first-ever EV at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, sending media images of an unnamed, digitally-rendered electric crossover. It didn’t bring a physical version of the concept to the show, however, and it’s not clear if it plans on producing an actual concept before the production version.
General Motors is currently benchmarking a variety of battery electric crossovers from rival automakers, including the Audi e-Tron and Tesla Model X. It is believed that the first dedicated Cadillac EV will take a similar approach as those midsize electric crossovers, offering up similar dimensions, performance, range and features.
These future Cadillac EV models are expected to be built on an all-new, next-generation platform from GM called BEV3, or Battery Electric Vehicle 3 (three being for third generation). We hear this platform will be highly flexible, allowing it to underpin front-, rear-, and all-wheel-drive vehicles across a variety of size segments.
As we reported previously, the next-generation Cadillac Escalade will also spawn a pure electric version with about 400 miles of range on tap. The standard gasoline version of the SUV will debut for the 2021 model year, with the electric model coming at a later date. To be clear, the aforementioned electric Cadillac crossover and the electric Escalade are separate vehicle programs.
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Don’t worry, that time every one and their dogs will have EVs and Cadillac will come with “Yet Another Me Too EV” and call it as YAMT EV ..
Their Mantra: We are GM, and we have one too! Nothing special, just GENERAL transportation if you want Amexican cars…
That is unbelievable. Hey GM, just wait until 2035 for a Luxury EV
IS there any company making money selling Electric vehicles right now?
Yes there is. They are called Tesla. A great little American Company that for whatever reason Auto Makers didn’t take serious enough. Now Tesla is selling more Model 3’s than Mercedes C Class, BMW 3 Series, Lexus IS, and Audi A4 combined. But you know, Sedans are dead. Just ask any other Auto Maker out there.
Tesla is going the Amazon route. All of their money is going into R&D so they do not turn profit right now. They are also not just a Car Company. They are an Energy company as well. But to answer the question, yes they actually make profits on their vehicles now.
Tesla makes money?…
Again, I stated Tesla cars make profits. Hence how they can build a huge Gigafactory in Shanghai. And will eventually build one in Europe as well.
The Company as a whole doesn’t make a profit as of right now as they transform all of their money into R&D and Future Products. They are utilizing the Amazon strategy.
Can you provide proof? They are loosing quarterly earnings.
You are confusing Company profit as a whole instead of profits on their Cars. Two completely different issues.
Yes, you are right Telsa is making money. Telsa is also doing R&D in global markets that’s why they’re at a lost, but it’s not from a lack of selling cars.
This Cadillac EV will be a Chevy with a battery called Cadillac. Your wait is over. In the mean time please refer to the cartoon / rendering of the new EV Cadillac coming soon.
I am pulling for GM but they had a so called head start in the EV game compared to the Big Three Germans but all three of them will have a Luxury car years before Cadillac. Can someone really explain or defend this?
Again, I am a GM fan and want them to make the best of everything but I will not just blindly praise them. If this article is correct, that time frame is an utter disgrace for such a huge company the likes of GM. We were promised better.
By that time, Tesla will have their Model Y on sale for over a year and maybe their Pickup Truck. Byton will most likely be on the market as well. Rivian will be selling their vehicles and every European Luxury Maker will have at least one EV and some up to three prior to Cadillac getting their first Full EV. I honestly do not know or understand someone defending GM if this article is accurate.
A few years late, a few sales lost. I am/was a GM fan. I own a SRX and a Volt. I was so impressed with the concept of the Volt, I just had to purchase a Volt over a Tesla. The Volt rides, handles, and has my every expectation for an electric/hybrid. I haven’t had visited a gas station in months. Could not believe that GM stopped production. The GM rationale to justify stopping production sounds like a political spin.
Too bad GM. I’ll soon be in the market for an EV to replace my Cadillac SRX, but won’t look to GM. Sad.
I owned a Volt within 9 months of it coming out. But I understand financially it doesn’t make sense from a manufacturing standpoint. You have a car with two powertrains. Basically it will never be cheaper than an ICE only vehicle because of its EV components, yet, not as simple as an EV with its ICE components. Without the tax rebate in it’s full form it’s hard to stuff another powertrain in a vehicle and not affect the price of the vehicle greatly.
Honda can make more money on the Clarity than the Volt because the components are cheaper than when the Volt came out and they have the full $7.5k available to their buyers. How would GM compete with that? So, GM decides to go upstream to the Endgame – EV’s. Even their they have to compete with others that have the full tax credit available – Kia/Hyundai, BMW, Nissan, Jaguar. But there is less cost in an EV than a PHEV outside the battery.
Oh so now it’s not about taking your time and building the best EV, it’s a matter of who can push out a luxury EV in whichever segment(s) the quickest? Haha. Got it.
Wait, But then if Cadillac was in a hurry to get this EV out on the road now and it wasn’t “up to par” y’all would still be upset and hate GM anyway because it was a “rushed job”.
GM is damned if they do, damned if they don’t with you whining idiots. It’s almost as if they can’t do anything right and when they do, y’all only ever recall what they got wrong. Doesn’t this site have a admin team? There are so many trolls here constantly.
Tesla is LOSING money! And a Tesla Model 3 exploded twice after an accident so their battery design is still a fire and life hazard.
That is a skewed view of reality. Tesla is a company that produces many products.
Tesla Cars are making a profit. Also, why don’t you look up all the BMW Diesel cars catching fire nonstop in Europe that BMW finally had to acknowledge and make a recall.
For the record, ICE cars catch fire percentage wise much more than EV’s do.
The hate in this country by some on Tesla is mind blowing. They are an American Car Company and revolutionized the over 100 year old Auto Industry. Tesla is following no other Company but everyone is now following them.
I am glad GM is turning full tilt with EV’s but they need to be faster is all I am stating.
“Tesla Cars are making a profit.”
Nope. That entire statement is completely and utterly false. They’re not making a profit and they have a long way to go before they do.
Alex, where do you get your information about Tesla?
If Tesla vehicles do not make profit, how does the Tesla Company keep producing more Model 3’s every quarter and build an all new Gigafactory in Shanghai and looking for a European location as well? Or pay their workers?
I think everyone is confusing Tesla the Corporate Company doesn’t bring in profits every Quarter because they are spending almost three times the R&D amount than other Auto Makers. Tesla vehicles do make profit. Tesla the company is much more than simply an Auto Maker. They are heavily involved in Energy. That sector of the Company has not made much Profit as of yet.
Alex, I would never disrespect your site and post other media sites here but anyone on this thread can very easily see that Tesla makes profits from their vehicles.
On the Model 3 alone, Tesla is making over 20% on each vehicle they sell. Will only go up in percentage once the Shanghai Factory opens and localized manufacturing takes palce and then even higher once a European Gigafactory gets built.
So we’ll see a compact crossover, a midsize+ crossover, and the Escalade EV. Maybe then followed by something with two doors but I’d bet more like the Evoque and less like a coupe car.
I don’t think enough people understand the benefit of an EV design. A lot of the complexities of an ICE go away and you have a lot more freedom with design because the EV components don’t change with body styles. More HP just means batteries with higher current draw capabilities. FWD/RWD/AWD is just about how many motors and inverters there are in the vehicle.
Everyone is probably just afraid of change is all.
I have never had a person drive a Tesla and not fall in love with it with that very first drive. It happened to me.
I love the Sound of V8 engines roaring but for everyday driving, nothing comes close to the Tesla cars right now. That is what I want every future GM EV to be like.
I was hopeful GM was going to have a Cadillac EV soon but unfortunately they do not so I will be getting a Model 3.
Maybe after that, GM will have something in the EV field that will hopefully be even better.
GM has much more Cash then Tesla so they should be better than Tesla soon, but will they?
Given the fit and finish issues with the Model 3 being hit or miss, it wouldn’t be high on my list right now.
cadillac is going to shock the luxury EV world just like chevy shocked the sports car world with the c8.
I sure hope so but by the year 2020 most Luxury Makers would have already beaten Cadillac to market. Some Luxury makers may have two to three different offerings by then. GM just being GM again. Promises of you just wait and see.
So they better have a really compelling effort to showcase.
the rendering looks pretty impressive, so i sure hope so. I have a feeling that the super cruise will be more dialed in than Tesla’s autopilot.
Nobody has the amount of Data that Tesla has. It is not even close. Tesla has almost 10 Billion Autopilot driven miles or all types of roads around the World. And Tesla is adding 1 Million miles a week into their Data and that number will obviously keep growing the more cars that are sold around the World.
The second most in Data is Waymo which is almost 15 Million miles in Geofenced areas.
Nobody will beat Tesla in Autonomous vehicles any time soon. Hopefully GM with the assistance of newly branded Cruise won’t be left behind like say Ford might. Super Cruise is great and should be standard on every single Cadillac. That is how GM will gain the Data so desperately needed for the future.
Supercruise and Cruise Automation are two separate things. Super Cruise is close to what Tesla calls autopilot now. Cruise Automation and Waymo are similar in capability.
Having a bunch of data doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have the ability in car to process that amount of data or a new situation occurs where you don’t have data for. And most experts in AI think Tesla’s camera only approach is going down an unnecessary path. It will require an order of magnitude more processing power than the Lidar/scanning radar implementations.
It all depends on who you listen to and or who you believe in.
There’s two fields of thought.
One is Lidar is the future and one is that Lidar makes absolutely zero sense for Fully Autonomous driving. So having said that, if Tesla is on the correct side of the spectrum, they will blow by every other Auto Maker utilizing Lidar right now.
The main difference is this though…If Tesla is wrong and Lidar is needed, Tesla will still have the Data and just add Lidar to their vehicles. If the reverse happens, all the Lidar Specific Data that Waymo, Cruise, and Supercruise are utilizing right now, those companies will be far, far behind Tesla. Only Time will tell.
I will be willing to make my bet with a person that figured out how to land and reuse Rockets in a couple years time than Waymo. Just my opinion though.
And exactly how many of those rockets have been reused? Having the capability is different than using that capability.
All get reused.
Hence the development money spent to invent them.
So, at earliest, Cadillac won’t compete in the EV space for another 2 years?
Maybe this is strategy will work out, considering capital is limited, but people should stop pretending GM is a “leader” in the EV space.
2022 vehicles start getting released in 2021. If they are benchmarking right now I would say they are probably done with design. I would be surpassed if there aren’t EV trucks running around already, since the next Gen Escalade rides on the same chassis as the Silverado.
It specifically says 2022 “calendar” year, not model year. So that means 2.5 years at the earliest (and based on GM’s past history, more like 3 to 3.5 years).
In the meantime, pretty much every other luxury automaker has quality BEV or PHEV vehicles onsale, either right now or within the next 12 months.
Again, while I’m sure GM’s cars & trucks will be good, that’s not being a leader. And increasingly crowded market, that makes it tough to stand out.
That is the point I was trying to make.
GM started way earlier than others but all we have as of right now is a bad looking Chevrolet Bolt but with pretty good technology. They promised us much more.
VW and VW Brands are coming with it in the next couple of years. I personally do not want to see VW Group obtaining that second position (Lets Say Google like) to Tesla (as Apple) position in the Market. I wanted that to be GM.
The point is being missed big time here. It’s not about obtaining any kind of market position or promising or whatever else. All that is good, but it doesn’t actually accomplish the purpose of making money.
As Tesla has proven, it’s not about making electric cars. That is not that difficult. What is difficult is making a profit from electric cars. That’s the challenge.
By the time GM launches BEV3, it will be the only automaker that is making money off EVs. Meanwhile, others will be selling some cars, some at higher volumes than others, but most will be doing so while losing money… much like the scenario with the Volt and Bolt EV.
Alex, why do you keep stating that Tesla doesn’t make profit from their vehicles?
I am pulling for GM but whenever they figure out how to make money on EV’s, they won’t be the first to have done so.
I am simply stating as a Cadillac fan I was hopeful they would’ve had a vehicle to keep me in the GM family. Unfortunately I will have to wait. Hopefully GM doesn’t fall behind the VW Group in the meantime.
How are they struggling? Outside of Tesla, they have the best selling EV in the US. And I bet you’ll see the Bolt EUV before you see any of the other new EV’s hit the shore in any numbers.
WHY did they change the Caddy emblem??????