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Cadillac Lyriq AWD Wears 700E4 Badge In China

The Cadillac Lyriq AWD represents a very promising direction for the luxury marque’s future. Providing a heathy combination of refinement, luxury and EV performance, the electric luxury crossover is just the beginning of Cadillac’s plan to field a lineup comprised entirely of electric vehicles by 2030. One of the finer points of Cadillac’s transition to electric vehicles has been the way in which the luxury marque will badge its EVs. While we know that the Lyriq with the base, single motor powertrain (the rear-wheel-drive model) has been badged as 450E, the bigger mystery was what the AWD model – which adds a second motor at the front axle – would be badged as. GM Authority has the answer.

The Cadillac Lyriq Sport AWD model will wear a 700E4 badge in China (the badging for the North American-marker model will be different). Following Cadillac’s torque-based alphanumeric naming convention, the “700” represents 710 Nm (524 pound-feet of torque), the “E” refers to the model’s all-electric drivetrain, and the “4” constitutes AWD.

As for what the 700E4 badge means from a mechanical standpoint, the Lyriq Sport AWD is equipped with two permanent magnet synchronous electric motors – one on each axle. With this configuration, the electric Caddy has the ability to accelerate from zero to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds, while the driving range is rated at 287 miles, the latter based on the CLTL standard.

700E4 badge on the passenger side of the decklid

700E4 badge on the passenger side of the decklid

Interestingly, the Chinese-market Lyriq uses a different Ultium battery pack, one that seemingly uses cylindrical cells instead of pouch-style cells used by its North American counterpart. For this, SAIC-GM – the Chinese joint venture responsible for GM operations and production in China – is working with a different partner than LG Chem.

As a reminder, GM Authority was first to capture photos of the Lyriq Sport testing on public roads in the United States. It wasn’t long after that the Lyriq Sport AWD was officially unveiled in the Chinese market. In fact, the Cadillac opened pre-orders for that region, and first deliveries started in December 2022. Meanwhile, the rear-drive Cadillac Lyriq launched in China in early June in Luxury and Prestige trims, and began shipping in late September when the first units rolled out of line at the Cadillac Jinqiao plant in Shanghai.

In any event, the Chinese-market Lyriq AWD features the highest numerical badge of any Cadillac model currently on sale, but not of all time. That honor is reserved for the Cadillac CT6 Platinum, which featured a detuned version of the 4.2L LTA V8 twin-turbo engine, otherwise known as the Blackwing engine. This CT6 wore an 800T badge, where the ‘T’ designated a turbocharged engine while the “800” was derived from the car’s 778 Nm of torque. Per Cadillac’ aforementioned naming strategy, that figure was rounded to the nearest 50, becoming 800. For those wondering, the horsepower rating was 500 and the torque in pound-feet was a healthy 574.

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  1. Great….China has had AWD Lyriqs available to public for the last 5 months…and yet an AMERICAN COMPANY in the US STILL does not have an AWD Lyriq available for customer pickups. What is WRONG with this scenario? Biden needs to get these issues resolved and start fining companies. Its no wonder that China is overtaking the US when we engineer, produce and deliver our products in other countries first. Very easy for Chinese to re-engineer many of the parts for other uses….even before our Lyriqs are even on US streets!

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    1. there’s a lot of consideration in my opinion.
      – Quality
      .. Probably fit and finish not meeting
      – Battery issues
      ..not enough for the orders
      – Labour
      – Marketing
      .. intentional delay? and force customer to move away and buy other product?

      Too much uncertainty.
      But i doubtful why GM would not want to push for more,
      GM china is co partner with local SAIC. So, yes, GM is force to share technology.
      And yes, GM wants to capture the vaste chinese booming market.
      EV roll out and competition is fierce in China.
      THe reason?
      Elon Musk, he opened up his EV pattern to the local to started to makes EV.
      EV entry has no emission requirement, hence, lots of smaller startup and ivnestor flocks to this market.
      It started in Europe. More EV are popping up.

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  2. You haven’t really going to speculate what the amercian AWD LYriq will be badge to.
    Whatever the badge is going to call doesn’t matter.
    BUt you will wonder why the chinese variant has different torque than the american version.
    A.
    Chinese AWD goes to 710N-M.
    Amercian AWD has ( on their website) saids: 450 lb.-ft. of torque (610 Nm).
    So, interresting why Amercian Lyriq only gets 610Nm in lieu.
    Different battery? Different motor? Or just simply different market?
    The Amercian AWD would definitely be badge 600E4.
    B.
    Horsepower wise are almost identical.
    Chinese 700E4 has 375kW (or 502.8HP)
    American AWD quotes on their site: 500 horsepower (373 kW)
    C.
    Battery
    As above mention battery is different on the chinese version.
    They use CATL cyclindrical cell,
    Max 95.7kW-h (No mention if its capacity or usable)
    Amercian 102kW-h (Usable)

    Source; Chinese: https://www.cadillac.com.cn/spec/?car=lyriq
    Amercian: https://www.cadillac.com/electric/lyriq/build-and-price/trims/features/433424

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  3. Seems like a different Car…. GM should enjoy it while they can (although they get reduced profits from every sale since they have to ‘share’ them with SAIC), since it won’t be long until a 100% Chinese company comes up with essentially a Carbon Copy of this vehicle at a lower price….

    Too bad that the ‘new gm’ (per Mary Barra’s Statements) doesn’t even consider itself an American Company any longer, and at the next US stock market downturn they’ll move the Corporate HQ from Detroit to their favorite country..

    Unfortunately – since the ultimate Chinese master plan is to have their auto industry be 100% Chinese controlled – they won’t be making anywhere near the profits they expect and gm will be downsized commensurate with their new TINY logo.

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  4. Yeah…it’s China! Do I care? The answer to that is he!! no!

    With all the tension between China and the US it seems that Mary and crew are completely oblivious to it. Let’s see what happens when they just take control and force the GM Idiots out. Will GM and Mary be able to recover some of the US market? Doubtful with the current vehicle line up of CUV, SUV and pickups. The 3 lonely sedans aren’t appealing since normal sized US adults cannot fit into them. Ever tried to get into the back seat of a CT4 or CT5? I’m 6′ tall and only weigh in at 190 and it’s a chore for me. Couldn’t imagine a road trip in one!

    Not everybody can afford or want a Tahoe, Suburban or an Escalade to transport their families and older adults have issues getting in and out of them. Even the mid-sized CUV and SUV vehicles are chares to get in and out of and don’t have passenger room in the rear seats. Give us back a full sized Chevy, Buick and Cadillac sedan that real people want and can fit into.

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    1. I think GM is gambling Stupidly Knowing That A War Is Brewing between the US And China , To Be So Smart And Creative How Freakin stupid Can You Be , Oh Yeah GM Need To Bring The Ct6 Back Home To America Were It Belong 😡😡😡😡

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      1. Small but important correction, Tracy: a war isn’t brewing between the US and China.

        Instead, the US is brewing a war with China, much like it has brewed a war with Russia using Ukraine as a proxy. The sooner the US begins minding its own business and stops sticking its nose into the affairs of other nations, the better this world will be, US included.

        PS: funny how Americans love to hate on the Chinese, but the Chinese buy more Cadillacs than Americans.

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