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GM Celebrates 2023 Cadillac Lyriq Production Start In Tennessee

General Motors today held a special ceremony to celebrate the start of production of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq crossover at its newly renovated GM Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee.

The ceremony, which was attended by GM President Mark Reuss, Cadillac Vice President Rory Harvey and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, provided new details on the production capabilities of the Spring Hill plant. The facility, which underwent a $2 billion renovation to prepare for the Lyriq’s arrival, has a capacity of just under 200,000 units a year combining all nameplates that it currently produces. This includes the combustion engine vehicles built there, which comprise the Cadillac XT5 and XT6 and the GMC Acadia, as well as the Cadillac Lyriq. The assembly line at the plant is also flexible, so additional production capacity can be added for the Lyriq if the demand is there – although this would come at the expense of some ICE vehicle production capacity. GM expects to produce roughly 25,000 examples of the Lyriq this year.

As GM Authority reported previously, the investments at the GM Spring Hill Assembly plant went toward expansions for the paint and body shops, along with comprehensive upgrades for the general assembly area, including new machines, conveyors, controls and tooling. Spring Hill is now GM’s third North American vehicle manufacturing site to produce EVs, joining the Factory Zero plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Michigan. The plant, which is GM’s largest in North America, employs an estimated 2,823 hourly workers and 429 salaried workers for a workforce of 3,252 personnel. Hourly workers there are represented by UAW Local 1853.

The GM team completed renovations on the Spring Hill plant nine months earlier than the automaker initially planned, GM president Mark Reuss said Monday, helping to speed up the arrival of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq.

“The Cadillac Lyriq sets the standard for the future of Cadillac and marks another major milestone in GM’s commitment to an all-electric future,” Reuss said during Monday’s ceremony. “This is a monumental day for the entire GM team. We retooled Spring Hill Assembly with the best, most advanced technology in the world and the team worked tirelessly to complete the preparations nine months ahead of the original schedule.”

GM President Mark Reuss

GM began accepting pre-orders for the sold-out Cadillac Lyriq Debut Edition last year and is expected to open customer orders for regular, series production versions of the battery-electric crossover on May 19th. Power in the electric crossover comes from a single motor, rear-wheel-drive powertrain, which is rated at 340 horsepower and 324 pound-feet of torque, along with a 12-module, 100.4 kWh Ultium battery pack providing a GM-estimated 300 miles of driving range on a full charge. The vehicle rides on the GM BEV3 platform.

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  1. Sure some trolls will say look at the Photoshop of the vaporware Lyriq being built . Interesting the Acadia is rolling off the same line in the pic..

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  2. … this is not be called Cadillac… it is so no Cadillac

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    1. can you not write a complete sentence

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    2. My wife doesn’t like it either. I love the looks. I hope the boss lady loves it when it gets on the dealer lot as we will not by another internal combustion engine vehicle.

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  3. opened the photo and asked my wife — please say the brand of this car in front of line

    she said…. Renault, Peugeot ,,, Nissan

    then said, no, what about Cadillac ?

    she said … no

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  4. yeah a Stellantis Peugeot

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  5. yeah … a Stellantis Peugeot

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  6. It looks smaller than I thought, which is fine.

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  7. At least it was not anything I was expecting for as wanting to know any potential future models but nice to see the LYRIQ is finally in production.

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  8. The more i see it, the less i like it.
    If this desgin is the future of cadillac, then no more cadillac for me.

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  9. Can’t wait to order my Lyriq, EV is the future. Climate change is not a political opinion but a scientific fact. GM is stepping up and producing one awesome vehicle.

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  10. At last in production, hopefully I will be given a date for mine. Are the final specs available now, miles on a charge (300 what?), 0 to 60 time? What about Charge 360 that will allow plug in to commercial charging just as easily as a Tesla does – no need to sign in or swipe a card, just plug in.
    Is there an order sheet for the other trims that will be built?

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  11. Agree with Alex.
    After my ’85 Eldorado (still have), ’97 Deville. ’05 STS4, ’14 SRX and ’14 XTS 4 V Sport (still have both “14 models) Caddy has lost me too.

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  12. An AWD option would be nice for us in snow country.

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