The design and engineering process for the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover will be supported by General Motors’ growing arsenal of virtual testing and development tools.
GM pulled the wraps off the production-ready version of the Cadillac Lyriq last week. This unveiling date was actually nine months ahead of schedule, and the automaker says the accelerated timeline was made possible by its new virtual testing and validation processes.
“As demonstrated by Lyriq, the process of virtual design, development and validation has a profound impact on the overall efficiency of GM vehicle programs,” the automaker said in statement. “Implementing the tools early in the development process allows teams to optimize a vehicle’s design, quality and performance within the confines of a digital environment, enabling GM to rapidly accelerate product development cycles while reducing engineering costs by $1.5 billion per year.”
Virtual engineering software helped GM develop several aspects of the Lyriq, including its aerodynamics, driver assistance and active safety features and its crashworthiness. Engineers also used computer software to determine cabin comfort for passengers in extreme hot and extreme cold climates and to tune the aeroacoustics and active noise cancellation technologies. GM used similar virtual engineering processes in the design and development of another of its future electric vehicles – the GMC Hummer EV.
“While GM has been developing great products for more than 100 years, virtual engineering has allowed us to visualize aspects of our designs that have not been previously observable with conventional vehicle testing. This is one of many inherent strengths of virtual engineering that we’ve capitalized on to completely reimagine how we create and develop future mobility products like the Cadillac LYRIQ,” explained Mike Anderson, GM’s executive director of Virtual Design.
Design variation is one of the many ways virtual engineering and testing software helps save on research and development costs. Software like this allows the engineering team to quickly tweak a design that may have drawbacks or issues with it, whereas before this design would have made it through to the prototyping phase and been physically manufactured before the engineers realized there was a problem with it.
“This new approach certainly achieved our initial goal of drastically reducing our engineering spend on expensive prototypes, but, more importantly, has enabled us to run faster than ever before, and deliver better quality on our first production vehicle builds,” Anderson added.
Thanks to this accelerated development cycle, GM will begin taking orders for the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq this September and will put the vehicle into production early next year. Customers can expect similar accelerated development timelines for other future GM EV products, as well.
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Awesome to see GM speed up the development cycle, EV’s also help this as GM builds more as they have common motors, inverters, power electronics which need only minor calibrations for each vehicle instead of all the cost to tune exhaust, accessory drives, emissions, and fuel economy. Also with an EV once the basic hardware is locked in GM can push out efficiency, safety, feature, or power enhancing updates over the air while the cars sit in their customers garage charging. This really is a new world for car makers!!
No matter how sweet it looks like in print……customers that purchase this type of engineered vehicle will be buying the problems that only test mules can bring out…
Basically a GM fleet of customer owned problem vehicles…………
Perhaps you do not understand what is actually going on. GM still builds a fleet of prototypes for Hummer (already over 2 dozen on the road) and Lyriq, and they go through the same ride and drive evaluations as any GM vehicle, but the difference with computer aided tools is you go from show vehicle to production test prototype in 1 step instead of 2. Like the Hummers being tested are full production structural chassis and powertrain. I do not think it’s likely they with miss any show stopping problems, and Hummer will roll out to the public slowly so if problems are discovered they can quickly fix them.
Like tesla
Exactly……………
No, Tesla doesn’t validate their math models and they go strait to production. GM still makes PPO IVER’s to validate their models before releasing to production (hence the top picture of this article is a PPO IVER. Something Tesla does not do).
The article states, “This unveiling date was actually nine months ahead of schedule”. The original release date was suppose to be the end of 2022 for a 2023 model year. The latest report prior to last week was saying that the first delivered Lyriq was going to be during the first quarter of 2022 and it was going to be a 2022 model year car, which was 9 month ahead of schedule. That was great news. However, last week’s update pushed that date back 3 more months to the first HALF of 2022 and now it going to be back to a 2023 model year car. My dealer said it will probably be 3rd quarter 2022. So now that would put it only 3 months ahead of schedule from the original release date. If virtual development was really faster than Covid should not have delayed it since designers can work from home. Yet the delivery date of the first lyriq now keeps getting pushed furher and furher into the future. Why is it now being delayed to the first HALF of 2022 instead of the first quarter of 2022? MY GOD GM, THAT IS WELL OVER A YEAR AWAY!!!!!! The Lyriq technology will be out-dated by June of 2022 and who knows how many more EV SUVs will be out by then. GM, yoiu really need to super charge you efforts here and make it happen MUCH sooner!
First I don’t think it’s wise to put the microscope to wording without facts. The actual target might still be early 2022 but some marketing literature might state first half of 2022 simply to be safe.
Second even if there is a delay it’s possible that the delay isn’t development related. It might possibly be production or supply chain related.
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