Cadillac Canada now has 118 active dealerships in Canada, the automaker revealed during recent media presentations held in Toronto and Montreal.
The American luxury brand is currently prepping its dealership base for the arrival of its future battery-electric products, with the first of these models, the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, set to enter production later this spring. During the recent media presentations, Cadillac confirmed it now has 118 dealerships in Canada – down from 122 stores as of January 2021.
While the number of dealers has shrunk, Cadillac says these retail stores are now EV ready, having completed necessary renovation work to prepare for the arrival of the Lyriq and other future Cadillac EVs. This includes the installation of public-facing Level 2 charging stalls at the dealerships, which will be open to owners of Cadillac EVs, as well as EVs from other automakers. GM plans to install more than 40,000 Level 2 EV chargers in dealer communities in Canada in the coming years, the automaker says, including in underserved rural and urban communities where charging is often limited.
Just as with its U.S. dealers, Cadillac Canada dealers were required to make fairly significant investments in their storefronts in order to complete charging stall installations and perform other updates and renovations. Unlike the U.S., where a large number of Cadillac dealers elected to opt out of GM’s necessary renovations, only four Cadillac dealers decided to take a buyout offer from GM rather than upgrade their retail space. This is a sign that many Cadillac dealers in Canada are confident that products like the Cadillac Lyriq will appeal to their customer base and that they will see a return on their investment in the coming years. Many of the Cadillac dealers in the U.S. that accepted the buyout were located in rural areas or other markets where EVs are not expected to be very popular in the short term.
As of April 3rd, 2022, GM had a total of 564 dealerships in the U.S. – down from 921 locations just four years prior. About 150 of these stores disappeared after Cadillac offered them a buyout instead of performing EV-focused upgrades, with these buyouts valued between $300,000 to nearly $1 million.
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Benz 17, BMW 50 Lexus 6 stand alone and 28 total dealers in Canada.
Needless to say Cadillac needs to reduce this number asap.
That many dealers fighting over a small number of customers has to really hurt the dealers there. I wager the Cadillac’s sold per dealer have to be very low.
More dealers mean lower prices for consumers. Competition, you know.
Less profits per dealer and worse ability to serve the customer.
This is why Benz and BMW can better treat their customers. You pay more but you get more.
There was a time that Cadillac dealers gave you a car to drive when when you went in for service. Today you are lucky if the parts guy will drop you off at work.
C8.R
BMW = Bill Me Whatever.
Factory and dealers are very proud of their parts and service pricing.
That is the point of luxury cars. They are not cheap, they are not something everyone should be able to buy.
This is what has hurt Cadillac as they used to be exclusive, now they are just a higher priced Chevy.
Cadillac should not just be good for the money.
Not sure your dealer count is correct. Mercedes has 10 dealerships in the metro Toronto market alone.
Sorry they have 17 locations. Must be offices. There are 52 dealers still half of GM.
Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. employs approximately 965 people in 17 locations across Canada. Through a nationwide network of seven Mercedes-Benz own retail operations and 52 authorized dealerships, Mercedes-Benz Canada sold 36,240 vehicles in 2021.
Hey what happened to my comment, somebody’s practicing censorship? I thought this was America, I assume it’s GMA? What a bunch of pussies, can’t handle the truth!
C8.R
GM has a much more favorable reputation in Canada than in the USA.
I’m just wondering how a colder climate will have on big battery tray life. A couple of hybrid owners that I know in Minnesota said that they could only use their IC engine in the winter, as the winter cold affected battery performance. Summer it was OK.
One factor is most of the people who live in Canada are in areas like Lower part of Ontario and in areas like Vancouver.
The numbers in places like Brandon and Alberta are much smaller than most understand. Even ICE vehicles in these areas are a struggle. A friend of mine was born and raised in Brandon and he said even Anti Freeze is no good there and you plug in cars to keep them warm when ever they are not being driven.
As for cold performance we have yet to see much about it with the present models and we also have yet to heard much of the plans moving forward.
I anticipate in the upper regions of Canada they will just continue to plug in but to charge not keep warm.
Now the other big factor is all the tech in these vehicles are not the same. A Bolt using old tech is 97% of range in warm weather and only +8% in cold
Yet Tesla Y is 98% warm and 97% cold Jaguar is 100% warm and 97% cold. Many of the most recent EV cars are showing much better range in cold weather and I expect the coming GM products to also reflect this. I wish they would stop drag racing these EV cars and start testing what really matters to the real customers.
Hybrids as a whole are minimal EV so I expect their range is not really good as it does not have to be. They can leave out the extra tech and battery capacity.
A Hybrid for the most is a half a$$ Ice vehicle and half a$$ EV. It is not the best go either.
I look to the Lyriq to be a good gauge where the GM tech is when it is tested as we have yet to hear or see much of the details. The Bolt and Volt are old news and no longer relevant to the new products.
C8.R:
Well stated. Thanks for the cold weather EV information.
When I lived in Gillette, Wyoming I had to plug my IC engine in on winter nights. All the motels in Gillette had electrical outlets on their outside walls next to parking spaces for block heater extension cords.
Wonder how an EV will fare without a battery tray heater plug in during a cold windy winter night in Gillette, Wyoming. ??? The winter wind chill factor is brutal.
EVs are usable in cold weather. You lose range, sure, but it doesn’t damage the pack.
Well according to the test many of the new models have little drop off compared to a Bolt.
Not sure what all they are doing but it appears not is no longer a legitimate negative for the web anymore.
C8.R:
The big question with me is battery life in a cold climate. ??? There are three major different designs of battery cells. GM is using a pouch type cell. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Remember you are producing 200kWh of juice in an EV, thats 200 -1,000 watt big light bulbs glowing for one hour. Will that battery last 10 years in a cold climate? How long in a tropical climate. Cold and heat stress batteries.
I think it is a bit premature to say anything here. Till it comes out and we know more about the system. I expect they have addressed the cold for charge and they will also address life.
We have seen extensive photos of cold weather testing so they have something to address this.
I would like to see what they do and what GM says before say anything
We have enough people claiming reduced charge when that appear not to be true based on testing with other models.
Brett Chandler:
What about battery life in cold weather climates? The guy in Finland with a Tesla dynamited his car after he only got five years of life on his battery. A new remove and install battery job was quoted to him at $22K.
That was one car. It may have just been a bad battery. LIke engines you will get a bad one or one not as good as the others now and then.
The batteries in my cars now are a good example. I have had one go at 3 years and another at 17 years.
La batterie n’est-elle pas garantie 8 ans ?
Serge:
Could you please translate your comment from French to English? I’m just a dumb Gringo. Thanks.
M. Murray vous n’êtes Pas stupide, moi-même je me sers d’un site qui traduit toutes les langues. Dans mon cas de l’anglais au français. Dans l’ordi il y a plusieurs sites qui le font . Il s’agit d’en trouver un bon. Bonne journée,
Serge, Mr Murray was polite and reasonable to request you translate to English. This is a US based forum and the language is English. No idea what your reply said (I am part of the 85% of Canadians who do not speak French), but I think I picked up “stupid” and “english and french”. If Murray did not understand your first reply, he certainly does not understand the second!
Apologies to our US friends; this is the type of language silliness we put up with from Quebecers!
Don:
Thanks for your rebuttal to Serge’s reply to my request. Appreciate the defense and support. I did get the drift from Serge’s reply comment about being stupid. The rest of his reply was ???. I suspect it was bashing because this Cowboy in Nevada does not know French. We do have a casino-resort on the strip in Sin City named Paris.
Maybe see you guys at SEMA someday.
Wow, Canadians reject Cadillacs just like their American counterparts.
Electric Vehicles – Electric Vehicles – What is going to happen to the environment when all of a sudden someone realizes that there are millions of used, worthless, batteries, with no place for them to be deposited now causing a new environmental issue. And to produce the batteries for the new electric vehicles, think of the carbon that will be produced while they build these large factories to produce the batteries, which will harm the world everyday they are producing batteries. The placing of EV stations will also damage the environment as the heavy machines used to install the stations will create carbon. If you lived on an Island, I can see the benefits. But a large country, one problem solved, and another problem created.
Dave you said it all, couldn’t agree more! Wow.
Bill, looks like quite a few disagree with us. When we pass them on the side of the road between Nowhere and Anywhere, be sure to wave ! lol