The 2024 Cadillac Lyriq ushers in the second model year for the all-electric luxury crossover, offering zero local emissions and plenty of comfort in the cabin. However, one of the things the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq won’t offer is a set of adaptive headlights.
The 2024 Cadillac Lyriq was originally slated to include adaptive headlamps (RPO code UVG) as standard on all trim levels except the new-for-2024 base-level Tech trim. Now, however, it appears as the 2024 Lyriq won’t be offering adaptive headlamps for any trim level.
GM Authority has reached out the Cadillac for an explanation as to why the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq will not offer adaptive headlamps, but has yet to receive a response.
To note, the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq did not offer adaptive headlamps with IntelliBeam automatic high beams. Meanwhile, the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq Tech is equipped with LED headlamps, while all other 2024-model-year trim levels (Luxury 1, Luxury 2, Luxury 3, Sport 1, Sport 2, Sport 3) are equipped with LED headlamps with welcome animation as the owner walks up to the vehicle, as well as an automatic headlamp leveling system and cornering lamps.
As GM Authority was the first to report, production of the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq has been pushed back. The start of regular production (SORP) for the 2024 Lyriq was originally set to kick off at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee on March 20th, 2023. Now, however, 2024 Cadillac Lyriq production has been pushed back to May 4th. What’s more, some 2023 Cadillac Lyriq orders have been shifted to the 2024 model year, as confirmed by Cadillac Global Vice President Rory Harvey.
Pricing for the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq Tech starts at $58,590, including destination freight charge. Under the skin, the 2024 Cadillac Lyriq rides on the GM BEV3 platform, while GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium Drive motors are onboard for motivation.
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I’m ashamed of the GM company seriously
especially when they had auto dimming features in 1980 caddys!
The auto dimming feature was known as the “Autronic Eye” and was designed and built at Guide Lamp Division of GM in Anderson, Indiana. These “Eyes” were also sold to Ford and installed in their Lincoln models.
Second model year?? I wouldn’t call the previous production attempts as a model year with so few vehicles delivered.
At the rate the options are being pulled from the Lyriq, by the end of the year it will be bare bones with electric windows as a luxury option. So far there is nothing but negative news coming out about the Lyriq…makes me wonder if Cadillac will squash the idea of releasing more EV models anytime soon.
Just as a side note…even my cheap Ford Maverick has adaptive LED headlights on it so it shouldn’t be a feat impossible to figure out. Maybe GM needs to hire some Ford engineers. The mechanisms can’t be that expensive either if they are being installed on the cheapest truck made by Ford. The Lyriq seems to be losing more options instead of gaining them.
Your Maverick does not have adaptive headlamps. Wake up!
The adaptive headlights that were expected on the Lyriq are in short supply. These adaptive lights have just recently been approved for use in the US. You’re already whining that you can’t get your Lyriq. So now you’ll get your wish sooner so complain elsewhere.
My in laws 4 door silver caddy circa 1980s had a feature to turn off high beams and on as I recall.
That’s not adaptive headlights as identified in this article. You’re describing auto-dimming headlights which are standard
Auto-dimming headlights are not standard on anything GM but Cadillac.
Your right….they are not on the Maverick…they are on some of the F150 truck models….adaptive headlamps use sensors to turn the headlamps in the direction of the steering wheel…like the Tucker car of the 40s that used a mechanical mechanism. I can do without this feature on my vehicle if autodimming still takes place and autoheadlamps.
This is getting embarrassing….. Supposedly in a week and a half 2024 production is due to start… My 2023 supposedly has FINALLY been manufactured… But they keep changing the specs…
Item: When the BUILD configurator for the 2024’s was released, the TECH trim was supposed to have no ‘animated lighting’, then, a week later, they include it.
Item: The Choreographed lighting was going to be non-defeatable, now the configurator states it is defeatable.
In general – they threw everything into the 2023’s that few people can use..
Like little kids, they keep changing their minds as to the content of the car – for instance – they include a ridiculously sized 80 amp ‘home’ level 2 charger in the car, but only supply a 32 amp charging cord, and that is all the receptacle that QMERIT will install will run…. You need an expensive separate circuit for the 80 amp charger for the 2023s, and in some cases a new electrical service to the home, plus a $1,500 wall box controller rated at 80 amps, if you intend on charging faster than the basic 32 amp cord supplied.
The only people who need this are traveling technicians and high-mileage salesmen…I bet the ‘take rate’ is just a few % since the 80 amp unit – is $1980 for ALL 2024 Lyriqs… To which you need to add the listed expenses above.
This example just shows the Schitzophrenic decisions made by GM marketing lately…
I would prefer just a basic mid size SUV with a nice interior, – and leave the gobbledygook optional for those people who want all that superfluous stuff…
Instead its been a year and a half, or 11 months of waiting so far for a Car (when I was finally allowed to order the car on 5/19/22) which is not the color I initially ordered since they ran out of Blue Paint a year ago.
A company who cannot fight their way out of these ‘paper bag’ style problems won’t be around much longer, sorry to say.
That charger is overkill and $$$ for most people.. I want the free 2 year charging since I already installed two chargers last year which have been sitting with their LEDs waiting..and waiting.
This is what I did after reading forums for weeks and asking questions to some of the electricians on the Tesla and other EV sites as to the proper setup as to what meets code requirements for the lowest cost and best fast charging solution. Expenses were the chargers $400 to $700 and $375 for materials for a 65ft run from the breaker panel….and a day of my time.
50 amp max continuous charging using Chargepoint or Autel MaxiCharger using hardwired 2 wires of THHN #8 and a THHN #8 ground – all preinstalled in 6/2 metal clad copper conductor 600V aluminum armored cable. Breaker used is a 70 amp (next up rule since there is no 65 amp breaker available). Continuous circuit pull allowed = 65 amps times .80 = 52 amps limit and the chargers can only draw 50 amps max. Hardwired – so no GFCI/AFCI required – already built into units anyway and armored cable can be directly attached to bottom of joists in basement runs by almost all current codes. Maximum charging rate of 12KW versus the 9.6KW max if charger is not hardwired but rather plugged into a NEMA 14-50 or Nema 6-50 outlet.
PDW:
I’ll say this – the Ground is heavy enough since at a 60 ampere overcurrent device a #10 copper ground is required, or for a 70 ampere overcurrent device, a #8 copper ground is required.
Since this is not a MOTOR LOAD, (no motors of any large size are involved to speak of in the battery recharging operation), no downsizing of the wiring is allowed if breakered at 70 amperes. So the #6 copper Armored Cable is fine, but if there is a downsizing to a ‘WHIP’ for the actual connection to the ChargePoint docking station, it must be changed out to a #6 copper minimum…
The only legal way around THAT is to have ChargePoint have a testing authority (such as Underwriter’s Laboratories), say the undersized WHIP is safe. BUT UL isn’t the quality testing organization they used to be, and such slip-shod practices wouldn’t happen in any attached garage I slept next to.
I suspect you may have misstated what you installed. You cannot have #8 wire preinstalled in #6/2 cable, although #8 may be the aluminum ground wire if this is 6/2 ‘copper’ bx, however. Yes that fails on a technicality, but most inspectors would allow it – being a ‘factory assembly’. Metal Clad (MC) with either Aluminum or Steel Sheathing, would have a dedicated copper ground wire, provided it is not ‘Health Care’ wiring.
The MC cable I used comes preconfigured with the 2 THHN#6 copper and the THHN#8 copper ground. This is the recommended cable to be used and neither box allows the use of a heavier #4 cable for the two hot leads due to the size of the slip in connections that both boxes use. Home run cable ends directly connected in the panel end and device end with no whip…unless you are referring to the 23′ device whips from the charging station to the car which uses a similar set of mechanical device connections inside the chargers. The whips to the cars appear to be #6 wire with preinstalled metal tabs on their device connection end.
Alex:
That is the most stupid comment I’ve read here in a long, long time…. What you do not realize is I have $2,820 at risk in my ‘Contractual Transaction’.. I fully do not expect you to understand why.
But you are proving the view of some Europeans who say that Americans are the DUMBEST people on the planet.
The Lyriq is NOT on our shopping list to replace our Tesla late this year. GM just can’t get it together so figure their QRD will be less than good.
Cadillac is counting their chickens before the eggs have hatched. The entire GM EV program has nothing been misfires. Selling before production gets started.
It could be that GM has had difficulty getting its adaptive headlamps approved by the DOT. After all, the enabling legislation was passed only recently. Several European luxury makes are equipped with adaptive headlights, but in the U.S. they need a software update in order to enable them. Hopefully, the situation with the Lyriq is similar, and we’ll get them enabled by software update after the DOT signs off on them.
Ford has it on some of their vehicles in 2021. I think Ram trucks had them in 2019 on Limited models.
Okay pdw.
I guess you still don’t realize that you said the cable you ran is
…”..using hardwired 2 wires of THHN #8….”.
Now you are saying the 8 is a 6.
So there is the misstatement. You also clarified that the cable is MC and not BX (officially AC for armored cable) – both of which can be obtained with aluminum sheathing and both are legal and ‘metal-clad’.
You right…see the misstatement in the original and must have overlooked it twice…plus you can’t correct after a few minutes of posting. It was THHN#6 with THHN#8 ground. I actually wanted to run THHN#4 but the cost of the run and conduit size increase was too much, plus it appears that most of the top of the line 12KW max chargers do not even allow for a wire input of that size so I would have had to step it down at the charger.
I’ll probaly never step up to a 19KW charger and I think the AWD had an AC max of 12KW charging compared to the RWD 19KW rate but that was quite a while ago so who knows what they really support for 2024 models.
PDW:
The $1980 option apparently is available for all 2024 Lyriqs. Since they made practically 0 AWD 2023’s or absolutely none, for the 2023’s it won’t be an issue. My 2023 will have an unwanted 80 amp charger, but, its easy to hook up.
To be installed correctly, all wallbox controllers over 48 amps require a disconnect within sight of the unit… #6 is fine, but if #4 is desired, or aluminum wire is desired, #2 AL can be run to this disconnect and then a short whip of copper #6 can be run to the controller ‘next door’.. Not a big deal. At my house, I have disconnecting means for all my wallboxes of any size, but that is beyond actual legal requirements.
For 80 ampere controllers, #1 AL or #2 or #3 copper can be run. Some electricians run #4 CU but that actually is pushing things a bit due to overtemperature at the connections… It is legal if spliced to something heavier at each end before hitting the disconnect lugs or the controller box lugs. 90 degree centigrade rated splices, of course… Other connector terminations are rated at 75 degrees centigrade.
My issue here in Canada is that I have paid $97,000.00 cdn and my car is sitting with 5 other 2024 Lyriq’s at the dealership and they won’t release the car to me until some software update has to be installed concerning low beam headlights?
They have given me a brand new CT 5 to drive in the meantime but this is very frustrating.
The Buick Enclave Avenair has it standard. Not available on the Cadillac Lyriq. What’s wrong with this picture?
On a different note. I found my 2023 Luxury trimmed LYRIQ has just been manufactured with a VIN in the very low 3000’s.
So that puts the lie to tens of thousands of LYRIQs have been manufactured. Mine was made last week.
I’d rather be Cadillac instead of poor Lincoln. Ford is starving Lincoln of anything good. Almost like they are giving Lincoln the “Mercury” die a slow death treatment.
For whatever reason, there are several 2023 Lyriqs for sale in North Carolina at MSRP.
I am guessing this is similar to BMWs ICON Laser LED Headlights, MBZs ULTRAWIDE LED highbeams and Audi’s LED highbeam variant. They’re all similar, but different implementations of the technology. The highbeam LEDs are able to dim independently on each side and then provide independent left and right high-beam light patterns on the road.
My 2020 BMW was optioned with these headlights, but I had to enable the features with software coding (as mentioned by another poster above). It is road legal technology in EU, but it has not reached full implementation in the US. I am not sure how MBZ and Audi handle this on the cars they sell in the US. I believe BMW phased out the Laser LEDs this year for a different implementation.
The technology is amazing. I can see the high beams form a uinque beam that is appopriate for the road I am driving on (this feature is called beamforming). For example, if driving on the freeway, it will automatically turn on the high beam and focus the light only on the road signs on the right side of the freeway. If you are on a dark 2-lane road with an oncoming vehicle in the other lane, the headlights will create a ‘light tunnel’ with the highbeams to further illuminate your lane and not the oncoming lane. In addition to The highbeams are also variable dimming so it allows the car to drive on a road with cars in front of you and still provide amplified lighting without adding glare to the vehicles in front of you or oncoming traffic. Very impressive technology. I believe Audi and MBZ take it one step further where they are able to ‘draw’ graphics on the road based on road conditions and/or GPS guidance. Again, the technology is amazing.
The order page says that adaptive headlamps are removed yet the main Cadillac Web build and price pages still list adaptive in the package details. You’d think someone would update the web site to match.
The build and price website has been updated to delete the adaptive headlights, but there’s no corresponding price reduction.
Currently, no car sold in the United States is equipped with functional adaptive driving beam headlamps. Approximately one-half of the vehicles currently sold in Europe are equipped this advanced technology. Rather than do the obvious thing and adopt the European standard, the USDOT has chosen to dither on the matter, which is why Cadillac has decided not to offer the adaptive headlights at this time. U.S. vehicle lighting standards are hopelessly ancient, and the DOT is ill-prepared to adopt a coherent final rule on these lamps. The DOT considers lights meeting the European standard to be too bright. Well, DUH! The technology turns off or blocks the beams from reaching oncoming vehicles or those that are being followed, while illuminating the rest of the road at full intensity.