GM unveiled the Cadillac Lyriq on Thursday, an all-electric crossover filled with luxurious complex technological touches that promises more than three hundred miles of diversity that aims to propel the logo into a new electrified era.
However, this new era for Cadillac will have to wait. The company said Lyriq would enter production in the United States in late 2022, more than two years after its date. The Cadillac Lyriq will be a global product, meaning it will also head to China. Production in China will begin before the United States, according to Cadillac.
The Lyriq is just one of 20 electric cars that GM plans to bring to market until 2023. But it will be a critical vehicle for the Cadillac brand. “The Lyriq sets a benchmark for long-term Cadillacs,” Said Michael Simcoe, GM’s vice president of global design, in the revelation.
The Lyriq embodies the kind of luxury touches a Cadillac visitor expects, from the “black glass” grille and jewelry box drawer to the 33-inch LED vertical touch screen and AKG audio system.
Cadillac aimed at a modern and competitive design achieved by giving the Lyriq a fast, low-ceilinged line and a wide position. This “black glass” grille is a dynamic feature with “choreographed” LED that greets the owner as the vehicle approaches. The LED continues at the rear with a split taillight design.
Inside the vehicle are backlit speaker grilles, curved screens with hidden garage and orchestrated lighting features similar to dynamic lighting.
The Lyriq will be available in high-performance all-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive configurations. The 100 kilowatt-hour battery will offer more than three hundred miles of life, according to the company’s internal tests. It will come with DC fast charging rates of more than 150 kilowatts and 2 point 2 charge rates up to 19 kW.
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The Lyriq’s in-house generation includes the latest edition of the hands-free driving assistance formula called Super Cruise that debuted in the Cadillac CT6 several years ago. Super Cruise uses a mix of lidar mapping data, high-precision GPS, cameras and radar sensors, as well as a driving force attention formula, which monitors the wheel to ensure they are attentive. Unlike Tesla’s autopilot driving force assistance formula, Super Cruise users don’t want to have their hands on the wheel. However, your eyes should remain directed directly forward.
The Lyriq will also come with an enhanced dual plan head-up demonstration in augmented reality. The front demonstration, which is projected onto the windshield in the driver’s line of sight, monitors the speed and direction of a nearby plane and a remote aircraft featuring navigational signals and other alerts. The effect is a layered look.
A vehicle will have to be visually pleasing to attract buyers. But Lyriq’s underlying base is the one where GM has made his biggest bet. Earlier this year, the automaker unveiled an extensive electric vehicle production and sales plan based on a new scalable electric architecture called Ultium that will feature a wide variety of products across all of its brands, adding Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC. The electric vehicle portfolio will come with everything from compact cars and paint trucks to giant high-end SUVs and functional vehicles.
This modular architecture, called “Ultium”, will be capable of 19 other battery configurations and transmission units, 400 volt and 800 volt garage packages ranging from 50 kWh to two hundred kWh, and front, rear and four-wheel drive configurations. . At the heart of the new modular architecture will be the large format battery cells manufactured in this new factory.
The Ultium battery has a nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminium chemistry that uses aluminum in the cathode to help decrease the need for rare earth fabrics such as cobalt, according to GM. The company said it had been to reduce cobalt content by more than 70% compared to existing GM batteries.
GM recently began the structure of a 3 million square foot plant that will mass produce Ultium mobiles and battery packs. The Ultium Cells LLC mobile battery production facility in Lordstown, Ohio, is a component of a joint venture between GM and LG Chem that was announced in December. At that time, the two corporations pledged to invest up to $2.3 billion in the new joint venture, as well as to identify a mobile battery meeting facility at a new production facility in the Lordstown domain in northeastern Ohio that will create more than 1,100 new jobs. The plant will be able to produce 30 gigawatt hours of capacity according to the year.
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