2025 Cadillac Lyriq With Right-Hand Drive Officially Announced In Japan
Scheduled for a Spring 2025 launch.
Read More »In the United States, Cadillac Lyriq deliveries totaled 86 units in Q4 2022.
| MODEL | Q4 22 / Q4 21 | Q4 22 | Q4 21 | YTD 22 / YTD 21 | YTD 22 | YTD 21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LYRIQ | * | 86 | * | * | 122 | 0 |
Cadillac Lyriq sales during the fourth quarter of 2022 moved the luxury crossover up to third in the electric luxury D-crossover segment compared to last quarter when ranked by sales volume. The Tesla Model Y earned first place with a 58 percent jump to 63,800 units, while the Audi e-tron placed second with a 42 percent slide to 1,145 units. The Cadillac Lyriq took third with 86 deliveries, while the Jaguar I-Pace slipped to fourth with a 97 percent drop to 14 units. The Lyriq was not available during Q4 2021, so no year-over-year comparison is available.
| MODEL | Q4 22 / Q4 21 | Q4 22 | Q4 21 | Q4 22 SHARE | Q4 21 SHARE | YTD 22 / YTD 21 | YTD 22 | YTD 21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TESLA MODEL Y | +58.31% | 63,800 | 40,300 | 98% | 94% | +33.99% | 231,400 | 172,700 |
| AUDI E-TRON | -42.20% | 1,145 | 1,981 | 2% | 5% | +1.00% | 7,503 | 7,429 |
| CADILLAC LYRIQ | * | 86 | * | 0% | 0% | * | 122 | 0 |
| JAGUAR I-PACE | -97.67% | 14 | 600 | 0% | 1% | -72.04% | 394 | 1,409 |
| TOTAL | +51.69% | 65,045 | 42,881 | +31.88% | 239,419 | 181,538 |
From a segment share standpoint, the Lyriq held less than one percent. The Model Y posted a dominating 98 percent segment share, up four percentage points, while the e-tron held a two percent share, down three percentage points. Like the Lyriq, the I-Pace also posted a less-than-one percent share.
As a whole, the electric luxury D-crossover segment grew 52 percent to 65,045 units during Q4 2022, mostly due to growth posted by the Tesla.
Cadillac Lyriq sales remained minimal during the fourth quarter of 2022 as a result of non-existent inventory, caused by low production volumes during its launch, which is still ongoing.
Production of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq kicked-off on March 21st, 2022, at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, which GM upgraded as part of a $2 billion investment to bring the facility up to spec for electric vehicle production. Since then, GM has steadily increased production output almost every month, as follows:
In total, 8,195 units of the Cadillac Lyriq were produced in 2022, with the highest monthly production total set in November. The nearly 3,000 Lyriq units produced in January 2023 is the largest monthly production total since the model began rolling off the assembly line in March 2022. The latest monthly production figure, received by GM Authority through mid-February, brings the total number of 2023 Cadillac Lyriq EVs assembled to 11,175 units.
However, those assembled Lyriqs were not shipping due quality issues, which has since been resolved. Following production and shipping delays, some 2023 Lyriq orders will be shifted over to the 2024 model year.
Although Lyriq assembly rates are increasing, output is still restricted by the limited amount of Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive motors as GM works to increase supply via the Ultium Cells plants. What’s more, production of Ultium batteries and motors has already begun at the new Ultium Cells plant in Ohio. GM has also secured a $2.5 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance the construction of three more Ultium manufacturing plants:
Introduced for the 2023 model year, the Cadillac Lyriq stands as the luxury marque’s first entry into the budding EV market.
The 2024 Cadillac Lyriq arrives with several important changes and updates. Among these is the introduction of new trim levels, Tech and Sport, with the Luxury trim level slotting between those per the Cadillac’s Y-trim level strategy. All three trim levels (Tech, Luxury, Sport) are available in the U.S. with either rear-wheel-drive or a new all-wheel-drive option. The all-new Cadillac Lyriq Sport AWD variant made its world debut in China.
Regardless of the trim level selected, Lyriq range-per-charge is estimated at 308 miles for rear-wheel-drive models, with motor output set at 340 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque, and 307 miles for all-wheel-drive models, with motor output set at 500 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque. The all-electric luxury crossover rides on the GM BEV3 platform.
The 2024 Cadillac Lyriq will be the first GM vehicle in North America to feature 5G network connectivity, standard on all trim levels. The 2024 Lyriq also gets a new power panoramic dual-panel sunroof along with a newly available Nappa Leather seating package, which is genuine leather made from calfskin or other types of soft cowhide. Smaller revisions can be found throughout, including the addition of the Rear Camera Mirror feature, 22-inch Dynamic Split Spoke Reverse Rim alloy wheels with a Polished Gloss Black finish, new paint colors and new seat colors, and – as GM Authority was first to report – flush mounted door handles.
Production of the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq is set to get underway on March 20th, while production of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq will end three days earlier on March 17th. The online configurator tool is live for the 2024 Lyriq.
As production continues to ramp up and more battery cell plants come online, we expect Ultium motor and battery production to drastically increase, unlocking substantial growth of the Cadillac Lyriq all-electric luxury crossover.
Additionally, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Cadillac Lyriq now qualifies for the $7,500 EV federal tax credit for customers who purchased and placed into service vehicles since January 1st, 2023. This tax credit should encourage interest across the industry that could result in 50 percent of new car sales being EVs by 2030. For its part, GM plans to launch 30 new EVs worldwide by 2025.
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That's really not a lot of delivery.
I like my model 3, and Model Y is basically just a hatchback version of the 3, but I certainly wouldn’t list the 3/Y in the luxury category. And certainly not list the Y in the crossover category.
Look forward to eventually seeing and test driving a Lyriq in-person.
This is a nice looking vehicle. Thinking difference between EV and ICE price might not be as big as other vehicles, and draw more buyers to Lyriq. But not sure, just a guess.
What a weirdly filtered list of all-electric “luxury” “crossovers”
You list the Y, but not:
BMW iX
Mercedes EQB
Mercedes EQS (SUV)
Audi E-tron
Ford Mach-E (about as “luxury” as a Y)
Kia EV6
Model X
Volvo XC40
Volvo C40
Rivian R1S
Wake me up when GM finally figures out how to Manufacture these highly coveted BEV vehicles in high volume.
GM should be embarrassed how this is going for them. What a wasted opportunity these last 12/18 months have been!!!
GM's BEV's are great vehicles but they can't figure out how to scale but keep talking Trash about Tesla being a niche automaker Mary. If she can't get these BEV's to scale up in production like she has been claiming (Remember she said Millions by 2025 in N/A) then the Board needs to replace her and I was never a "Fire Mary" person at all but you cannot act like Tesla doesn't exist while they are destroying you at the same time. Figure it out ASAP or you have to Go!!!
I believe, keeping promises to the board is an mandate of any CEO.
Revenue aside, customer trust is going downhill for those who has high expectation for the First Cadillac EV!!!
GM did try and promote, and lure customers shopping EV, to short list it.
Who plan shopping for 2 years of waiting?
At tesla, you don't, 3-4months at max. That's where the EV shopper will go.
I'm very surprise why Tesla can increase capacity in their facility, while, GM is stagnant for months trying to sort out thing as a legacy car automaker ....
Feels like GM is crunch on ressource planning, manpower, engineering, material.
All this short sight are short sight and bad decision making from executive.
Just like Toyota, if the brand isn't working, change COO, CEO and the whole team with it.
Bert:
Agreed. Even the sales promotion and marketing of the LYRIQ has been extremely Amateurish...
But - it doesn't have to be any good since there is a DISCONNECT between the number of vehicles GM SAYS they are making and what customers are getting..
ITEM - GM says they made 8,195 or thereabouts vehicles in 2022 - yet 122 were actually sold, and people were waiting months afterwards for theirs....Since there are so few on the road - I've never seen one except for the Detroit Road Show at the dealership last year - why would people STILL be waiting for these vehicles after production constraints were lifted, or - more to the point - these supposedly have been manufactured already so where are they?
ITEM - GM and GMA supposedly states 2023 production ended 3/17/2023 and New production started 3/20/2023 of the 2024s only - yet this obviously edited article talks about it as if it is in the future... So this is such a YAWNER that even the writer cannot write a fresh article.
Meanwhile, my dealer states the Tennessee Factory has PROMISED the sales manager that my LYRIQ (forced to BLACK since they ran out of BLUE PAINT !) will be made as Contracted during the week of April 17th, 2023, and will be a 2023 Luxury Model - in contravention of everything supposedly revealed by GM MANAGEMENT, and I use the term loosely...
So everything is up in the air still. No One anywhere supposedly can even figure out what model year I will be getting, and of course, no one will even hazard a guess as to when the car will arrive at the dealership...
One thing is almost certain: You could PUSH the vehicle from Tennessee to Western NY where I am, faster than the car will actually appear, If the cars made in 2022 still haven't all made it to dealerships yet.
@Bert
I have been stating on this site for years that Legacy Auto if they do not shift quickly enough they will find themselves falling so far behind Tesla that they may never be able to catch them. But the worst part might be that they will find themselves not being able to scale up BEV Production as it is not the same as Producing ICE vehicles in scale (Completely Different) and desperately needing money from their ever decreasing ICE sales (Look at ICE sales from China which GM desperately needs) to prop up new Facilities and BEV Contracts for minerals.
GM kind of moved quicker than others but are now stuck realizing that scaling BEV's is waaaaaaaay different than ICE.
Not a good Place to be at as Tesla keeps breaking records every Quarter and announcing new Gigafactories around the World to have even more capacity down the Road.
Then we all know no matter how long we can keep Chinese Automakers from selling their vehicles here it will happen one day. And guess what they can do that not even Tesla can yet....Produce at scale 20K to 25K BEV vehicles. If GM doesn't step it up and do so ASP then I am sorry but Mary has got to go!!!
Finally, people posting on here that don't have their head in the sand and actually see what is really happening. Tesla is already roughly 1/3 of GMs US sales and is poised to surpass them globally in 3 years. Consider GM was at just over 10M global sales in 2016 and in just 6 years dropped to under 6M in 2022 and will be fortunate to hit 5M in 2023. Like all other Western OEMs, their market share is falling off a cliff in China. All OEMs focused their efforts on continued ICE joint ventures while Chinese startups strategically went after the emerging NEV market, then when they (BYD, XPeng, etc.) were dominant in this space unsurprisingly, the Chinese government mandated strict emission standards which directly impacted all Western OEMs. This, along with a soft economy, led to over 4M ICE cars currently on lots that can not be sold after July 01. Therefore, a fire sale has begun, but no one is buying the ICE cars while Tesla enjoys another record quarter. GM's half @ssed attempt in BEVs will come back and bite them sooner than they imagined, but hey, at least the Lyriq moved up to 4th in a segment. Watch Q1 China sales closely - Q2 will be even worse.
@mvb
Yuuuuuuuup.
Everyone called me crazy years ago when I kept saying that Tesla will become a HUGE problem for Legacy Auto and they will become a 5 Million vehicle automaker by 2025. They are definitely a problem and they are definitely tracking to be at 5 Million by 2025
They refuse to believe what is happening because of ignorance or hatred of Tesla/Elon, but reality continues. I'm not a GM hater, I've owned 11 GM cars (most new), and one Porsche, Ford, Dodge Challenger, and Toyota and was an avid Tesla hater when we bought a Volt in 2013. Over the past decade GM has fumbled away advantages and never followed through on anything meaningful beyond trucks. Hate watching GM make critical mistake after mistake that negatively impacts its workforce, etc. Since buying a 2023 Austin built Model Y, there is no going back, even driving my 2020 Duramax ZR2 feels archaic and the Cayenne S is a dog.
At least Cadillac is the showcase of technology to push the EV's unlike Ford who would rather showcase Mustang and F150 over poor damaged brand Lincoln. Poor Lincoln is still in the planning/ concept/ development phase.
To your point of legacy automakers not shifting fast enough I would say look at Ford. They rushed the Lightning, Mach E, Maverick, Explorer, and Bronco (well, they tried to rush the Bronco) and every one of them had major recall issues out of the gate. That's a bad look and I think what GM is trying to avoid. Hell, even Tesla rushes things out into the market with a "fix it later" attitude to the point you never know what you're going to get from vehicle to vehicle.
So while GMs delays are unfortunate in the long run their customers are going to end up with a superior product.
Dean, Ford is in a more precarious position than GM with numerous issues and recalls on every recently introduced ICE and BEV. The difference I see with Jim Farley is that he isn't glossing over these massive problems, but is pressing the company into survival mode to get to the root of the problems. Ford will struggle for the next few years, but I see them succeeding with the Maverick, F-150 variants, and Bronco. Like the Lightning, the Mach-e was architecturally behind Tesla and Hyundai when it was introduced. The next iterations will be improved and competitive. The main reason Ford will prevail in the BEV space is its bet on batteries - SK and CATL batteries are superior to LG Chem on price (LFP), dependability and safety. Of all BEVs on the road in the US, only 1.5% of the batteries failed - AESC (LEAF) and LG Chem (Bolt) make up >95% of these, while Tesla (which account for the vast majority of BEVs on the road) are all on the other end of the spectrum. I believe Ultium batteries (made by LG Chem) was a bad bet on GMs part - Remember, GM China uses cylinder batteries for its EVs in China, not the difficult to scale/assemble packs used in the US.
As I keep pointing out, their bottle neck is mainly battery supplies. They developed their own cell chemistry, cells, modules, pack, and a dedicated EV platform, including their own motor tech. And to the point where only 19 variations of drivetrain will underpin their 3rd gen EVs.
They have just one Ultium factory up and running in the US, second one is still being built, but supposed to come online this year, and a 3rd in 2024, and eventually a 5th in 2025.
All told by 2025, they should have enough battery capacity in North America for 160GWh to 240GWh of cells. or enough for about 2M/yr-3M/yr EVs (in North America). Keep in mind, Tesla's numbers are always quoted as global, and sites always seem to ignore GM's EV efforts in China, perhaps because currently are mostly joint venture efforts, although they do have an Ultium super factory running in Shanghai.
Mary is doing a great job with the difficult balance of remaining profitable while scaling down ICE production and scaling up EV production.
Good comments here. I still would keep Mary on board right now though. The big change I would make is to eliminate model year designation. If Tesla can do it, so can GM. Eliminate the scrambling around and confusion that happens when delays prevent deliveries. The days of annual restyles are in the past, so why handicap those Lyrics whose deliveries are delayed? If I was one of the many who are waiting for their order to be filled, I'd be pissed off if when I finally get my Lyriq, it would be last year's model.
On the surface this makes sense, but GM lacks vertical integration it once had and has contracts in place with numerous suppliers, so they really can't. Tesla on the other hand is way more vertically integrated and makes improvements continuously. For example an original Model Y from 2020 and a 2023 look identical on the outside, but under the skin the 2023 is vastly improved (gigacastings, suspension, etc.). Every part on a Tesla has a barcode that is scanned when assembled for simple replacement if necessary rather than looking up model year, etc. The car knows exactly what parts it has and what the replacement is. And anyone that has ever been to an auto parts store knows there is variability of parts during model years.
Tesla has lost alot of its so-called vertical integration, especially in batteries, where majority of it cars are built with other companies battery tech and components.
Not true - Tesla is one of the worlds leading battery makers and is rapidly expanding, but it also contracts with BYD, CATL, Panasonic and others for batteries as it can't keep up with demand - all motors are designed and built in house . Tesla is not battery constrained like every legacy OEM. If anything, Tesla is becoming even more vertical in that it is building a lithium refinery in Texas - they are moving toward a Ford River Rouge setup - look up project highland some time.
My point is that by not designating model years of their cars, Tesla has made itself immune from the model year depreciation factor. EVs age differently than ICE cars and GM ought to consider following Yesla's lead in dropping model year designation. It's still early in the game to apply depreciation factors to EVs in that battery life which will certainly be a major factor is as of yet unclear.
So they have these sitting somewhere for months, mice are loving it! Not good.
I hate to say it but I think ordering a Lyriq was a major mistake. I do not see how GM can possibly ramp up production to fill the orders they have had on the books for the last several years. Even the original orders of the debut model have still not yet been filled. This should be extremely embarrassing for a company that bragged that they would be totally EV this decade. I calculate that their current EV production is somewhere around 2-3 (max) percent of their total production and I don't see that increasing at any significant rate. Their design to customer deliverance currently appears to be 2 to 3 times longer than any other car manufacturer and it doesn't appear to be improving with any of their newer models. I suspect the new EV Equinox and the EV truck will be pushed back by at least a year. The Equinox was supposed to be arriving this spring....I can't possibly see that happening when they cannot even produce enough batteries for orders that have been on the books for 1-2 years already. They may push out one or two Equinox just to meet their original statement.
With regards to the Lyriq, it is now 2nd quarter of 2023 and there is no real ramp up in production and deliverance. I suspect most 2022 orders will not be filled in the 2024 model year and pushed out to 2025 / 2026. By that time most of the customers will have selected and purchased a different EV manufacturers vehicle and moved on, eventually getting their original deposits back. Cadillacs statement that they are holding up the Lyriq deliveries to prevent recalls and retrofits no longer provides any confidence in the product. If it takes that long to figure out fixes and repairs then maybe the production model needs to be scrapped. Recalls by GM are going to take place regardless of how long they hold up deliveries. As far as GM overtaking Telsa in EV production numbers, I don't see that ever happening in my lifetime. They missed that opportunity a few years ago and will never catch up to the Telsa sales at this point. Telsa production numbers are growing at too fast of a pace for GM to ever catch up.
Does anyone know if the Cadillac Lyriq has cornering lights?
It does.
Source: I own one.
You are one of the few, proud, the owner of a Cadillac Lyriq. When I live, the local Cadillac does have one for sale at the moment and the local Mercedes-Benz is having a difficult time selling the EQS.