{"id":141858,"date":"2019-12-13T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=141858"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:59:42","slug":"cadillac-moving-to-all-electric-line-up-by-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/12\/cadillac-moving-to-all-electric-line-up-by-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac Moving to All-Electric Line-up by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cadillac Escalade will eventually become a battery-electric vehicle, according to brand officials.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cadillac will follow the lead of some other luxury brands and become mostly, if not completely, an all-electric line-up of vehicles by 2030.<\/p>\n

Officials at General Motors\u2019 luxury brand have been suggesting this shift could happen, but Cadillac president Steve Carlisle confirmed the shift, although noted that it could offer battery-electric and internal-combustion versions of its Escalade full-size sport-utility vehicle.<\/p>\n

GM expects to begin production of the large Cadillac electric SUV in late 2023 at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant as part of a planned $3 billion overhaul of the factory, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

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(Cadillac expanding coverage of hands-free Super Cruise)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Although the China Association of Automotive Manufacturers recently predicted sales for 2019 would be down overall, Carlisle noted Cadillac expected to enjoy \u201clow double-digit\u201d sales growth in China in 2019.<\/p>\n

As if that weren\u2019t enough good news, Carlisle noted that retail Cadillac sales in the U.S. expected to rise for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n

The luxury brand will keep the pedal to the metal in China as it plans to introduce a compact electric SUV there in 2022. A similar version of that electric SUV will go into production in the U.S. in late 2023, Reuters reported.\u00a0Cadillac showed a concept for a midsized electric SUV earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac chief Steve Carlisle said the luxury brand will switch back to actual names for its products instead of the alpha-numeric system currently in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(First Look: 2020 Cadillac CT4)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Noting that \u201cEscalade is an awesome name,\u201d Carlisle confirmed plans to use names for its electric models and eventually phase out its alpha-numeric system for identifying its vehicles currently in place.<\/p>\n

Cadillac will refresh its current gasoline-powered models one more time during the next decade then shift to electric models, he said, adding, \u201cNone of us knows how quickly the transition will take place.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key challenge for electric vehicles is driving range and Carlisle said Cadillacs will need a range of 300 miles to be competitive. Eventually, he told Reuters, \u201cyou need to be at 400 miles\u201d with charging times in minutes.<\/p>\n

(First Drive: 2020 Cadillac XT6. <\/strong><\/em>Click Here for our review)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to the shift to an all-EV line-up, Carlisle also affirmed Cadillac also will expand the number of models equipped with GM\u2019s Super Cruise semi-automated driving system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cadillac will follow the lead of some other luxury brands and become mostly, if not completely, an all-electric line-up of vehicles by 2030. Cadillac chief Steve Carlisle also noted the brand will enjoy a sales increase China this year as well. Read about Cadillac’s other good news at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":141859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[43,58],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,140,150,151,313,123,185,287,319,155,299,243,163,132,125,139,148,128,291,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141858"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=141858"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=141858"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=141858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}