As we live and breathe, we’re five days away from the Cadillac Lyriq reveal. And while we’ve already compiled a rather solid amount of information about Cadillac’s upcoming EV, we still don’t really know what state the vehicle we’ll see next week will be. Luckily, GM Authority has the inside scoop.
The Cadillac Lyriq that will be revealed this Thursday will be a “show car” that is “mostly production-intent,” Phil Dauchy, Cadillac head of global brand strategy, told GM Authority in a recent interview. In fact, what Cadillac will show on Thursday is what it was planning on showing back in April, until the COVID-19 outbreak put a pause on those plans.
Dauchy also said that the Cadillac Lyriq will introduce a new suite of technologies, large displays, Super Cruise, and other advancements. Additionally, the Lyriq show car will also preview several forward-looking technologies that won’t be ready at the start of production, but that are on the horizon over the next few years. Unfortunately, Dauchy wouldn’t specify what those futuristic technologies will be, but we should have a better idea at the time of the Cadillac Lyriq reveal.
The Cadillac Lyriq will be Cadillac’s first fully electric vehicle. Riding on the new GM BEV3 platform, the Lyriq will be a crossover positioned between the Cadillac XT5 and XT6, from a size standpoint. Driving range is expected to exceed the 300-mile mark. We also know that it will feature a very large display spanning 33 inches. The screen will make up the gauge cluster as well as the center infotainment screen, similar to the OLED unit found the all-new 2021 Cadillac Escalade. Launch is expected to take place in 2022 as a 2023 model-year vehicle in the United States.
The Cadillac Lyriq reveal will take place during an online live stream that will start at 7 p.m. ET on August 6th, 2020. Stay glued to GM Authority, as we will be on hand to provide live coverage of the unveiling of the Lyriq “show car.” And don’t forget to subscribe to GM Authority for all the latest Cadillac Lyriq news, Cadillac news, and around-the-clock General Motors news coverage.
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Despite the hate this vehicle gets (because of its name) I’m really intrigued to see this. Hopefully it will have some new innovations
The name is incredibly stupid.
Cadillac has names like Seville, Eldorado, etc. in their toolbox. Hopefully the Liyriq name doesn’t make it to production.
I’m sure the car is awesome.
It’s not like names like Seville, Eldorado or Deville have any meaning to someone that’s looking to buy an EV Cadillac. It in fact could have a negative affect on the buyers they are trying to lure.
20 years from now;
“Screw the Cadillac Spaceyacht, why can’t they use classic names like Lyriq???”
Exactly.
I said this here before, and got hammered for it. THE PRODUCT MAKES THE NAME. If you have a great product, the name will hardly matter; as Bob Lutz once said, “A good name can’t save a bad car, and a bad name won’t kill a good car.”
I’m excited that this reveal will be at a reasonable east coast time. The C8 debut was fun to watch and had some pretty good production quality. However, it was at like 10-11 est, which is too late.
Why does that even matter? You can just watch it the next day on youtube. Or whenever you happen to get up and feel like watching it.
I don’t know, watching things live gives a sense of community. If they’re going to do it live it might as well be at a reasonable time. Otherwise they might as well just do like an unboxing style video with just one person going over all the key features… Which honestly would be a more enjoyable viewing experience than a live reveal with all the hoopla anyways.
I agree, by those times I’m tired and not AS interested as if it debuts at 5, 6 or even 7
Still 18 months at least until examples arrive at showrooms.
You’re math is off. The article states it will not be available until 2022 as a 2023 model. And then, it will mot likely hit showrooms in the Spring or early Summer. So more like 24 months. GM always late to the party.
GM delivered the first Chevy Bolt EV in November 2016 after revealing it in January 2015, so it is less than two years from reveal to first sale.
What happens when the steering wheel is turned all the way clockwise when parked? Will the charge port door slide into the tire?
Good question!
IT seems that the charging connector is on the left side of the car.
This is bad for using road side charging stations. A Lyriq driver would have to park in the wrong direction, i.e. on the left side of the road to recharge.
good points, from both of you. but let’s be real, how often is anyone who can afford a Cadillac BEV going to be using a road side charging station? probably not very often. they’ll be charging in a garage or parking lot 99.9% of the time.
Garage, except on long and wellplanned trips.
I mentioned curb side charging, because in another thread I had just replied to a comment which claimed that in Europe they are installing chargers in lamp posts (which is raised by some uninformed people, but not happening).
Very few EV owners will recharge on a trip. Most will plan to drive less than the full range. Anyway, a true Cadillac EV owner will never drive over 300 miles. They will just take a plane. In my case, I drive less than 300 miles a month. So I can recharge overnight while I sleep.
If you really need to drive over 300 miles, buy a hybrid.
I’m betting plenty of Cadillac drivers go on trips of more than 300 miles. Also, don’t forget that your range will drop enormously in the winter, so that might be more like 200 miles.
Is a “true Cadillac EV owner” kind of like a “true Scottsman” then?
More than likely the Caddy EV owner will have more than one vehicle. Over-the-road travel probably would be done by IC.
I would agree with that. Traveling with an EV would be pretty inconvenient anyway. If you can afford a $75k+ Cadillac, then you can afford a second car that wouldn’t have those limitations.
I’m sure, like Tesla, there will be a feature in the Nav system that shows where charging stations are.
There are vids on YOUTUBE by Tesla owners on how they make long trips. One drove across the country.
Honestly I think those of you dubious about traveling long distances in any electric vehicle are un-necessarily concerned.
It’s just a concept car.
This won’t make it to production which is at least 2 years away.
The door rotates out and forward. There is room for the wheel to turn.
August 6 — I’ll be at a rally to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first use of an atomic bomb to kill people, 125000 by one strike.
My uncles and my grandfather were in that war, and all returned by the end of August 1945. If the U.S. didn’t use the A-bomb, then they would had to participate in the invasion of Japan and would not returned. Over 100,000 U.S. and over a million Japanese lives would been lost!
Harry S Truman decided correctly that U.S. lives was worth more than any number of the former Japanese lives. I hope you will commemorate the effective use of the atomic bomb to end the war and save over a million other lives.
Today is the day, and although I do not want to convert this site into a general political forum, I can’t escape from taking up Raymond Ramirez arguments.
If the nuclear bombs would have been necessary to force Japan’s capitulation, then why the socond bomb on Nagasaki? Why not first find out if this first blow of killing 125’000 in one strike didn’t do it yet?
Fact is, that the bomb on Hiroshima was a Uranium-bomb, and proved to be working to the satisfaction of the US government, but the other type, based on Plutonium had not yet been tested. Talking to the Tokyo government and possibly even accepting an offer to surrender would have taken away and justification for the test of this other technology, and had to be avoided at all cost. The same applies to the 1st bomb, the one on Hiroshima.
1st one has to know that the US airforce had already flattened a number of big Japanese cities to fields of rubble and rests of burned wood houses. The bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima have been only a more efficient mass killing: instead a whole air fleet, a single aircraft with 1 single bomb was at least as murderous as the flattening of Tokyo, for example.
Japan was cut off from oil supplies, and also from other necessary supplies from China. Japan was trying to come to negociations thru the USSR government, whith which she had a non-aggression pact, running out only in 1946.
Waiting a few days and establishing contact with the Japanese rulers could have avoided the two mass killings, and get a surrender, especially since the USSR avoided the contact with Japan and declared war on Japan after the Hiroshima bomg.
Before Nagasaki, the US had insisted on an unconditional surrender, after they had de facto accepted the condition that the Tenno could keep is position, although somewhat reduced, but was not brought before a military court of the victor.
So, if the main reason for the plutonium bomb on Nagasaki was to test it, one can conclude that the reason for the Hiroshima bomb 3 days before also was to test it.
And with this raise a thread of annihilation against the USSR and the whole mankind.
I’m sorry, when did this site become Mother Jones? Weren’t we discussing the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq?
Let’s just hope it goes better than the Escalade reveal which was beyond dull including Spike Lee.
You are not allowed to criticize the black midget. That would be “blackaphobic”.
Race has literally nothing to do with it. You’re a real class act bud.
Nothing whatsoever…. it’s the execution!
I doubt the fold-down steering oblong will see production, nor the weird center armrest.
That was not the Lyric shown at the XT6 reveal.
The sliding fender panel is over-engineered. A normal port cover can be slightly hidden with a larger Cadillac barge and look better. If that panel is dented, how can it slide?
A larger Cadillac barge, huh? Which one, a 96 Fleetwood? 😉
So much drama over nothing.
Names mean nothing as the vehicle defines the name. The charge port side mean nothing as there are few charging stations let alone road side.
Intros are not much unless you are there in person, I have attended a few and it is fun but on the web it is just another video. For the most part the spec sheet release is where all, the fun is as we generally know what it looks like.
The fender swings out to clear the emblem and tire, yes they figured this out,
What will be important here is range, cost, range, features, cost, technology, range, the quality of the touch materials and cost.
Yes I repeated cost and Range as being important but the feel and technology is going to be important as well as quality at launch.
GM should have 400 mile range. They should have a competitive price with a Tesla if not better. They have indicated the dash is advanced so I hold hope the rest of the car will follow this.
But the Cadillac EV models need that feel and touch you don’t get on their present cars or on any other GM car.
When you first grab the door handle you should right away know you are dealing with a better product a premium product.
Like Apple or no you look at starting with the purchase at their stores. Right away you are made to feel special. When you buy the product you are given a high quality bag. The box and packaging is premium so much so many buyers keep their boxes.
Then you get products like a Mac Book Pro where the product is made of high quality machines billet aluminum. It is a solid study unit. So much so I saw one dropped 1000 feet and while the screen was dead the keyboard worked and plugged into a external monitor it still worked.
As it is now there is little premium packaging or feel to a present day Cadillac. They try to sell me more options add some leather but finish it off with Chevy parts bin parts that while good are still not premium.
Imagine a billet door Handel. Door dampening and latch that shut the door quietly. Switch gear inside that is not plastic. No hard plastic on the door panels and metal trim where solid is needed.
Include a high level charger as standard at Cadillac.
It is the details not the trivial things that will make or break this vehicle. Tesla truly can be beaten as they have never been tested. They have nice cars but nothing special.
Preach!
So this is just a concept?
No apparently it’s the real thing…
Yep, just a concept.
The real thing not before 2022 as a 2023 model.
If you want to buy a luxury EV look elsewhere.
If you just want to look at pictures you came to the right place.
More than likely a prototype show car that is 95% production ready which is far from a concept.
I would love to have a fully electric vehicle if they didn’t require so many charges. Plan a eight hour day trip and you will probably need to charge your vehicle 6 times or so. Every long distance trip you would have to plan quite good assuring you will have enough places to charge your vehicle. Why can’t they use one wee and add a charging station to it. I bet sales would increase like crazy. I can’t image driving in the middle of no mans land and your vehicle suddenly telling you your battery life is only 20 percent, know what??? Panic attack…
I would love to buy an all electric vehicle if only they didn’t require so much charging. Going on a eight hour trip would probably require 6 charges or so. Looks of planning would be required for long trips to make sure you will have enough charging stations. So much for a fun filled vacation always wondering where your next stop will be. Is it possible for the manufacturer to take one wheel and attach a charging station to it??? We have had alternators running in gas engines just about for ever so why not set up all electric vehicles to have some sort of charging systems…
This will most likely be a chicks car like the xt4-6
For once I would like Cadillac to launch a new vehicle and have it available for sale in one year at the latest. Not 2022.